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  • iMail , News January 3, 2012

    NLRB Approves New Rules to Minimize Undue Union Election Delays

    The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has approved new union representation rules to ensure workers can freely exercise one basic right we hold dear in this country – the right to vote. The new rules make union representation elections fairer by simplifying procedures, deferring litigation and setting shorter deadlines for hearings and filings. Currently when

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  • iMail , News January 3, 2012

    New Indiana Statehouse Rules Limit Right-to-Work Protests

    Indiana state officials have announced that the state will limit the number of people allowed in the statehouse. The announcement, made less than one week before the start of a legislative session where state lawmakers are expected to take up the so-called “right-to-work” bill, would limit the number of protestors allowed in the building at

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  • News December 30, 2011

    United Airlines Passenger Service/Reservation Election Dates Set

    The National Mediation Board (NMB), an agency of the federal government, today set January 17, 2012 as the starting date for a five-week election that can establish the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) as the collective bargaining representative for 17,930 Passenger Service and Reservation employees at the airline formed by the merger

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  • News December 30, 2011

    NMB Authorizes United-Continental Passenger Service and Reservation Election

    The National Mediation Board (NMB), an agency of the ferderal government, has authorized a union representation election for the combined group of Passenger Service and Reservation employees  at the newly-merged United Airlines, Continental Airlines and Continental Micronesia, all subsidiaries of United Continental Holdings, Inc. No dates have been set yet, but are expected to be

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  • News December 21, 2011

    ExpressJet Flight Attendants Vote ‘Yes’ for Machinists Union

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C., December 21, 2011 – In an election prompted by the merger of ExpressJet Airlines and Atlantic Southeast Airlines, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) emerged as the clear winner in a contest to determine union representation rights for more than 2,160 Flight Attendants. “Today’s victory is the

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