The largest Passenger Service election in more than a decade gets underway today as the National Mediation Board (NMB) began mailing voting instructions to 16,000 Passenger Service employees at Delta Air Lines. Eligible voters include both pre-merger Delta and pre-merger Northwest Passenger Service and Reservation employees, including Delta’s Home Agents. A successful election will preserve
Read moreToday, while middle-class Americans watch their dreams disappear, Wall Street and big business are making more money than ever. You’d think they’d be happy to be the only Americans enjoying the good life. But greed knows no limits. As I write this letter, the big banks, the outsourcers and even foreign interests are pouring hundreds
Read moreFrom Atlanta to Detroit and from Memphis to Minneapolis, IAM members are on the road and on the phones speaking with employees at Delta Air Lines who are voting in historic elections that can give them a much-needed voice in the direction of their newly merged airline. “Some of the most enthusiastic responses we received
Read moreConcerns about job security in the wake of the merger between Continental and United Airlines led 41 Continental Customer Service agents in Toronto, to vote decisively for the IAM as the best way to protect their careers. Representation elections for airline workers in Canada are guided by different laws than in the United States, where
Read moreThe hundreds of bricks surrounding the IAM Workers’ Memorial at the William W. Winpisinger (WWW) Center, each inscribed with a name and a date, are poignant reminders of how lethal going to work can be. A new IAM video, “The Way We Came to Work,” provides vivid and personal accounts from members who lost spouses
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