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Concerns about job security in the wake of the merger between Continental and United Airlines led 41 Continental Customer Service agents in Toronto, to vote decisively for the IAM as the best way to protect their careers. Representation elections for airline workers in Canada are guided by different laws than in the United States, where
Read moreThe hundreds of bricks surrounding the IAM Workers’ Memorial at the William W. Winpisinger (WWW) Center, each inscribed with a name and a date, are poignant reminders of how lethal going to work can be. A new IAM video, “The Way We Came to Work,” provides vivid and personal accounts from members who lost spouses
Read moreHow many of your friends, family and neighbors are jobless? How many are working part-time or for lower wages because that’s the only job they could find? And how many citizens of your state have simply stopped looking? Nationally, 31 million Americans have been idled by this Grave Recession. Some have been looking for work
Read moreFor the second year in a row, the IAM CREST program at IAM District 15 in New York City is the winner of the National Safety Council’s Defensive Driving Course (DDC) Best Performance Award in New York. The eight-hour course is provided to New York City black car limo drivers. District 15 has had more
Read moreThe IAM has recently added more members with the expansion of Ontario Patient Transfer’s (OPT) newest base in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto. “We’re building on the relationship we developed with OPT since we organized their home base in Hamilton more than a year ago,” explained District 78 Organizer Scott Jackson. “As they continue
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