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Massachusetts Treasurer Receiver-General and candidate for governor Steve Grossman (second from left, front) and TWU members join IAM members’ informational picket at Boston’s Logan Airport. IAM-represented ground workers at US Airways conducted informational pickets across the country to protest the carrier’s insistence that they accept second-class status and agree to lower wage rates than other
Read moreAllowing passengers to make in-flight cell phone calls would create needless and potentially deadly safety issues, says Transportation Trades Department President Ed Wytkind. It would also make flying next to chronic cell phone chatters a lot less pleasant. Overturning the long-standing ban would “interfere with the ability of Flight Attendants and pilots to deliver important
Read moreCourtesy of Gary Huck The Northwestern University football team won without having to set foot on the gridiron. After the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago ruled that the players meet the definition of an employee, the Wildcat football team now has the right to hold a union election. Click here to read the landmark
Read moreIAM members at Reynolds Packaging Group in Louisville, KY prepared for upcoming contract negotiations by attending classes at the William W. Winpisinger (WWW) Education and Technology Center. Local 681 represents Maintenance Employees at the facility, which manufactures Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil. The WWW Center’s week-long Negotiation Preparation for Bargaining Committees Program helped them make a
Read moreAt a gathering of the Inter Tribal Warriors Society in Washington state, General Vice President Gary Allen, second from right, presented a donation to the Council for First Inhabitants Rights and Equality (Council FIRE), an advocacy group for Native American issues founded by Western Territory Grand Lodge Representative Kevin Cummings, right. The labor movement has
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