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A unique program designed to measure and reward performance in safety, quality and productivity will get underway on June 29 for 32,000 IAM members at Boeing facilities in Puget Sound, Portland and Wichita. The incentive plan, dubbed the Aerospace Machinists Performance Program (AMPP), is a key feature of the four-year contract extension negotiated last year
Read moreAfter a long life spent in service to family, friends, country and union, former Midwest Territory General Vice President (GVP) Merle E. Pryor, Jr., died on June 8 in Ft. Scott, Kansas. Pryor, 80, retired from the IAM in 1993 after a union career that began in 1955 as a member of Local 834 in
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division announced this week it will sue Florida after the state disregarded the federal government’s request to suspend its controversial voter purge campaign. In a letter to Florida’s Republican Secretary of State, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez flatly states that Florida is violating the National Voter Registration
Read moreA deceitful ploy by the City of Long Beach backfired when they took unilateral action that led to the loss of five days of wages for IAM members over a period of five months in 2009. In a landmark decision, the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) ruled in favor of IAM members who were
Read moreIn a testament to how far and fast a good idea can travel, the Union of Unemployed (UCubed) this week announced that its network of jobless activists now includes more than 100,000 Facebook fans. “Those 100,000 online activists regularly share posts with their 26.6 million Facebook friends, giving the unemployed a power that far exceeds
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