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The IAM welcomed today’s National Mediation Board (NMB) single carrier ruling for the Flight Attendant classification comprising 25,000 employees at the recently combined United Airlines, Continental Airlines and Continental Micronesia Airlines. Today’s ruling sets in motion a 14-day period during which the IAM will provide sufficient evidence of support for the NMB to call for
Read moreIn the wake of a major airline organizing win, allies and adversaries of the new voting rights for airline and rail workers are squaring off in a historic fight that will determine if the National Mediation Board’s new rules are preserved or repealed. Earlier this week, nearly 3,000 workers at AirTran won collective bargaining rights
Read moreIAM/TCU President Bob Scardelletti holds up his winning ticket in the drawing for a 2012 Bombardier Can-Am Roadster. Scardelletti then donated the three-wheeled motorcycle back to the Grand Lodge Host Committee to be raffled off again. More than 300 delegates and guests at the 2011 MNPL Planning Committee Meeting in Albuquerque, NM held their breath
Read moreEd Schultz, Host, MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” The IAM Legislative Conference is set for May 9-12, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, DC. The cut-off date for reduced room rates is today, Thursday, March 31 . You can call the Hyatt Regency directly at 202-737-1234 to make your reservations. Among the events planned will be
Read moreCorporate giant General Electric reported $14.2 billion in profits in 2010, but paid no taxes in the United States. In fact, they managed to wring $3.2 billion in tax benefits, according to a report in the New York Times. GE’s tax department employs “former officials, not just from the Treasury [Dept.], but also from the
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