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  • iMail , News February 3, 2011

    Machinists Lobby for Flight Attendants

    For more than a decade, the IAM has fought for better working conditions for Flight Attendants. Above, IAM Transportation GVP Robert Roach, Jr. testifies with IAM Flight Attendants and safety coordinators at a FAA hearing in 2000 in favor of extending OSHA protections to air cabin crews. IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger today called on

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  • iMail , News February 3, 2011

    300 Flight Attendants Excluded from United Union Vote

    The union currently representing United Airlines Flight Attendants failed to include hundreds of Continental Micronesia Flight Attendants in its single carrier request to the National Mediation Board (NMB). This omission would prevent 300 Continental Micronesia Flight Attendants from voting in the upcoming representation election. The IAM responded to the single carrier application and is arguing

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  • iMail , News February 3, 2011

    IKEA’s Swedwood Tightens Squeeze on Virginia Workers

    IKEA’s Swedwood operation in Danville, VA, announced at a recent staff meeting that the company was eliminating 66 percent of its workers’ voluntary vacation time. The furniture-maker workers would only have four days of voluntary vacation time a year. Use of remaining days would be at the company’s discretion. “First, Swedwood took away these workers’

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  • iMail , News February 3, 2011

    Newsletter, Web and Photo Contests Deadline May 13, 2011

    Each year, the IAM honors the hard work and dedication of its many newsletter editors and web stewards by holding a Newsletter and Website Contest. The deadline for submissions for the 2011 IAM Newsletter and Website Contest is May 13, 2011. The contest is open to all local and district lodges that publish an official

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  • iMail , News February 1, 2011

    IAM Members at Alaska Airlines Ratify New Pact

    More than 90 percent of the 2,600 IAM members at Alaska Airlines voted to ratify a new contract that includes pay raises, a $1,500 signing bonus, job security provisions and participation in an annual performance-based pay incentive plan. The incentive plan will provide IAM members at Alaska Airlines with more than a month’s wages for

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