IAM District 26 and Pratt and Whitney (P&W) recently opened a new round of contract talks covering 2,700 members at LL 700 in Middletown, CT and LL 1746 in East Hartford, CT. IAM District 26 and Pratt and Whitney (P&W) recently opened a new round of contract talks covering 2,700 members at Local 700 in
Read moreNFFE/IAM organizers canvassed hundreds of NFFE/IAM Local 178 members and other potential members in an election campaign at the Army Contracting Command (ACC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Gunpowder, MD. Employees of the Army Contracting Command (ACC) at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Gunpowder, MD have a rich history of NFFE/IAM representation. However, a recent agency
Read moreThe IAM recently welcomed to headquarters a key group of bankruptcy experts, attorneys and representatives from the AFL-CIO, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and the State University of New York (SUNY). The group plans to examine bankruptcy as it pertains to pensions and collective bargaining agreements for a series of educational videos that
Read moreIAM General Vice President and Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) National Vice President Diane Babineaux, front center in red, led a delegation of IAM women to the 17th Biennial CLUW Convention in Reno, NV. More than 400 delegates from 40 International Unions met at the 17th Biennial Convention of the Coalition of Labor Union
Read moreThe IAM and the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) joined 17 other unions representing 300,000 federal workers in a joint letter to members of the House-Senate negotiating committee tasked with hammering out a budget deal urging lawmakers to craft a long-term solution that ends sequestration without inflicting additional financial burden on federal workers who
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