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Workers who maintain Border Control aircraft at Laughlin Air Force Base voted for IAM representation. From left, Victor Struggs, Gary Tucker, Susan Tackett. Not pictured: Mike Reppert and Sam Campbell. The Southern Territory posted three more organizing wins in Texas, beginning with 11 custodial workers from Diversified Contracting Services at Red River Army Depot in
Read moreThe IAM this week opened an organizing office in Mobile, AL to provide support for Airbus workers interested in forming a union at the company’s soon to be completed final assembly line. Located just minutes from Airbus’s front gate, the office will be staffed by full-time IAM organizers and supported by community allies and volunteers
Read moreFourteen new IAM CREST Associate Instructors from Districts 141 and 142 completed a train-the-trainer program on transporting dangerous goods in the airline industry. Approximately 6,300 TCU-IAM airline and railroad workers will receive training in transporting hazardous materials thanks to a nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The grant also includes training
Read moreDan Janssen loves his job as a baggage handler at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ). “The best part about my job is my coworkers and friends,” writes Janssen, vice president of IAM Local 2323, in Rank and File, a Canadian labor news website. “There are many positions at the airport and we all play a
Read moreThe pervasive stereotype that a minimum wage increase would only help teenagers working part-time jobs is simply not true. A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows us why. Raising the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020 would lift wages for one-quarter of American workers, the report finds. More workers age
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