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Feb. 12, 2019, WICHITA, Kan. – Seventeen Machinists Union members at FlightSafety Services Corp. (FSSC) on McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita began a strike at 6 a.m. on Feb. 12. The members (IAM District 70, Local 708) provide quality training for Air Force pilots and refuel boom operators and maintain flight simulators for the Air Force’s newest high-tech refuel aircraft, the KC-46 Pegasus. The 17 Machinists Union members voted 100 percent to strike and to reject the company’s offer. “The machinists on strike at Local Lodge 708 in Kansas have the full support of the IAMAW,” said IAM’s Southern Territory...
Machinists Union International President Robert Martinez Jr. issued the following statement on the results of the 2018 midterm elections: “The American people have chosen action over distraction. This is a clear sign that the political pendulum had swung too...
October 1, 2018, WASHINGTON, D.C. – Machinists Union International President Robert Martinez Jr. issued the following statement regarding NAFTA renegotiations: “Hundreds of thousands of U.S. and Canadian manufacturing jobs have been lost to Mexico since NAFTA was approved. At the...
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 29, 2018 – Twenty-three U.S. Senators, led by Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio), are urging the Boeing Co. to respect the decision of Flight Line Technicians in South Carolina who voted on May 31, 2018 to join...
A statement from International President Robert Martinez Jr.: “The Janus decision is just the latest tactic of corporations and wealthy donors who want to take away our freedom at work. The radical right will never defeat a wave of...