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Seventy-five percent of District 141’s membership at Hawaiian Airlines ratified a four-year agreement that provides immediate wage increases of five percent, followed by raises of four percent, three percent and three percent in each successive year of the agreement. Additional paid holidays, no increases for health care premiums and a voluntary separation package were also
Read moreWith a new video, editorial and a growing list of partners, the IAM community service project known as Ur Union of Unemployed, nicknamed UCubed, is beginning to resonate among labor organizations and unemployed workers, who have created more than 40 individual “cubes” to share their experiences and gain the benefits of collective action. Using
Read moreThe outcome of the special election in Massachusetts is being touted as a victory for Tea Party activists, who grabbed the public’s attention with a non-stop smear campaign against the proposed health care legislation. But an article by Roger Bybee in In These Times magazine, argues that Democrats who buy that reasoning are missing the
Read more(from left) U.S. Congressman John Garamendi, Chairman of US House Education and Labor Committee – George Miller, IAM Western Territory GVP Gary Allen (at podium), Executive Secretary of the California State AFL-CIO Art Pulaski is seated at right. A vocal contingent of Machinists union members took part in a recent rally in Concord, CA,
Read moreOn Friday, January 15, 2010, the IAM launched Ur Union of Unemployed– known as UCubed – an online community that aims to unify the unemployed in a unique and useful way. UCubed’s purpose is to assist the over 31 million Americans who have lost their jobs in this Grave Recession by helping them to organize,
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