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Being a woman at Qatar Airways isn’t easy. You can get fired for being pregnant. You’ll need your boss’s permission to get married. Want to say something about it? The confidentiality clause in your contract could get you tried in Qatari Court. In honor of International Women’s Day on Saturday, March 8, the International Transport
Read moreA pair of developments in the volatile aerospace sector are being hailed for the multi-billion economic effects they bring to members and communities in at least six states. Earlier this week, Machinists employed by Lockheed Martin at seven IAM Local Lodges in Georgia, California, Mississippi, Florida and West Virginia secured new four-year agreements that maintain
Read moreTCU-IAM National Vice-President and Assistant to the President Joel Parker addresses the media on the labor impasse between TCU-IAM’s Long Island Rail Road coalition partners and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. TCU-IAM and its Long Island Rail Road coalition partners – SMART and NCFO-SEIU – held an historic solidarity briefing with TWU Local 100 at the
Read moreIAM members in more than 800 local lodges in the United States and Canada have concluded nominations and runoff votes where necessary to determine lodge endorsements for the IAM Executive Council positions of International President, General Secretary-Treasurer and, for U.S. locals, eight General Vice Presidents. Click here for a complete tabulation of local lodge endorsements.
Read moreIAM District 9, Local 777 drivers at Unimark Truck Transport in Bridgeton, MO, have won a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) suit against the company that could net over $1 million in back pay spread across up to 300 members. Click here to read the NLRB decision. An NLRB administrative law judge earlier this week
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