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Top Pentagon officials say the Department of Defense (DoD) has already begun eliminating some 46,000 temporary civilian workers ahead of possible mandatory budget cuts. A total of nearly 800,000 jobs could be threatened in all. “We are on the brink of creating a hollow force due to an unprecedented convergence of budget conditions and legislation,”
Read moreThe new education partnership between the IAM and UMass-Amherst has recently yielded some very exciting results. Eight IAM members—Edward Delaporte, Bridget Fitzgerald, Mark Hollibush, Hazel Powers, Heather Ragle, Frank Saptel, Richard Suarez, and Gil Yap—just completed their first graduate-level session at the Amherst campus. Another IAM member, Karen Blanchard, who began the program in 2011,
Read moreFour years ago today, a newly elected President Barack Obama delivered on a campaign promise and signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The law makes it easier for women to effectively challenge unequal pay. Ms Ledbetter, who discovered her employer was paying her less than men for the same work, took her
Read moreThe IAM submitted comments to the Department of Transportation regarding the Federal Aviation Administration’s Policy Statement on Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Aircraft Crewmembers. “For many years the IAM has been concerned about the occupational safety of Flight Attendants and has advocated for OSHA to play a role in regulating safety standards for flight
Read moreMembers of the bargaining committee representing IAM members at M1 Support Services took part in realistic mock negotiations during the Bargaining Prep Program at the Winpisinger Center in Southern Maryland. A five-member negotiating committee, representing 163 IAM members in five separate states, recently participated in the William W. Winpisinger Center Bargaining Prep Program to train,
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