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Members of Local 2725 in San Juan, Puerto Rico are all smiles after ratifying a new contract that contained significant pension improvements. Twenty-nine members of Local Lodge 2725 in San Juan, Puerto Rico unanimously ratified a new contract with Air Express International, which vastly improved members’ pension benefits. “The pension was the major issue for
Read moreFrom left, IAM Midwest Territory General Vice President Philip J. Gruber, Business Representative Don Griffin and Directing Business Representative Russ Krings hold a check awarded to Mercury Marine employees for missing lunch wages dating back to 2009. Local Lodge 1947 employees at Mercury Marine in Fond du lac, WI are celebrating an $850,000 settlement for
Read moreIAM members returning to work at Daimler after a three week strike. Members ratified terms of a new contract on July 22, 2013. In a close vote, IAM members of Local 1005 at Daimler’s Swan Island Truck Plant in Portland, OR ratified new contract terms on July 22, after being on the strike lines since
Read moreIt’s not often a group of workers can save their pensions and protect their seniority by the simple act of casting a ballot, but that’s exactly what’s happening right now as IAM-represented Mechanic and Related workers at US Airways vote in the current representation election. “IAM Mechanic and Related workers at US Airways will lose
Read moreFacing a disgruntled workforce and a grassroots IAM organizing movement, management at window and door manufacturing company Jeld-Wen are resorting to further labor violations to suppress and intimidate its workforce. Builders and Woodworkers International (BWI), the world’s largest global union federation representing wood and construction worker unions, have found that a Jeld-Wen corporate leaflet distributed
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