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The IAM is standing up for collective bargaining rights in South Carolina and across the country with a 30-second TV ad titled “Scales.” The ad frames the current debate over union rights with a basic question: “What does more to help American workers and protect the middle class? The rants of politicians plumped up with
Read moreMore than 350 employees at IKEA Distribution Center in Perryville, MD, voted by an overwhelming margin to join the IAM despite opposition from IKEA managers who hired Jackson-Lewis, the well-known union-busting law firm. In the final days of the campaign, IKEA management engaged in tactics typically used in union-avoidance campaigns, including threats of job
Read moreVoting is underway in the representation election for nearly 19,000 Passenger Service and Reservation agents at the carrier formed by the merger of United Airlines, Continental Airlines and Continental Micronesia. “The combined Public Contact group is poised to become the single largest group of IAM-represented workers at any airline,” said IAM Transportation Vice President Sito
Read moreThe newly-ratified contract covering nearly 8,500 IAM-represented workers at the nation’s freight rail carriers is worth at least $30,000 in increased pay over the life of the agreement, according to District 19 President and Directing General Chairman Joe Duncan. “The tentative agreement provides 20.1 percent in compounded general wage increases, which will generate about $30,000
Read moreA U.S. District Court Judge rejected an attempt by Delta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson to block the U.S. Export-Import Bank from providing Air India with $3.4 billion in loan guarantees needed to secure the purchase of 30 U.S.-built Boeing aircraft. The ruling is a victory for U.S. aerospace workers, the American economy and the
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