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Twelve members of Puerto Rico’s Local 2725 Negotiating Committee recently completed their first ever Negotiating Prep Program conducted in Spanish. Local 2725 represents 152 members – drivers and vendors at Frito-Lay distribution in Puerto Rico. The three-day program focused on membership communication, drafting contract language, presenting proposals, analysing the company’s strengths and weaknesses and identifying
Read moreIAM District 837 in Hazelwood, Missouri brought 40 new members into the IAM through an organizing victory at VSE Corporation in Hamel, Illinois. Workers there voted by an overwhelming majority and will become members of Local Lodge 837B of District 837. Our new members work for an employer that falls under the Service Contract Act
Read moreThe IAM welcomed the decision by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York to deny a $5.3 million bonus plan for eight senior executives at Hawker Beechcraft. In a ruling that concurred with the IAM objection to the plan, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stuart Bernstein said Hawker failed to prove that the plan was an incentive
Read moreA deceptive proposition that would increase the ability of business groups and billionaires to buy elections will be on the ballot this November in California. Proposition 32, deceptively known as the “Stop Special Interest Money Now Act,” aims to cripple the ability of unions to participate in politics, but have little or no impact on
Read moreThe AFL-CIO has launched a creative new digital application just in time to reclaim Labor Day as a day to recognize people for their hard work. Via the new online app, participants can send innovative thank you cards through Facebook and email to friends, teachers, bus drivers, firefighters, construction workers, baristas and others whose work
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