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The IAM announced it reached a 20-month tentative interim agreement with Continental Airlines for a new contract covering the carrier’s 9,500 Flight Attendants. The agreement includes a critical no-furlough clause to protect IAM-represented Continental Flight Attendants throughout the life of the agreement. The tentative interim agreement contains a 2.5 percent base wage increase retroactive to
Read moreAs part of the effort to bring attention to the desperate plight of millions of unemployed Americans, the IAM community service project known as UCubed has compiled dozens of stories about what it’s like to struggle as a casualty of the nation’s worst economic catastrophe in more than 80 years. Click here to read from
Read moreThe IAM will host the 2011 International Human Rights Conference from September 1 – 5 at the Buena Vista Palace in the Walt Disney Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL. The event will highlight the importance of diversity in the house of labor and will include the concerns of women activists, human rights activists, younger workers
Read moreThe Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), an Australian union representing woodworkers down under, called on holiday shoppers to boycott retail furniture giant IKEA, over the refusal by a U.S. subsidiary to allow its workers to join a union. “It is Scrooge-like at this time of year for IKEA, which makes billions in profits,
Read moreIn an op-ed published on the Huffington Post, Leo Hindery, Chairman of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation, delves into what he calls the “political disconnect” between union and non-union workers and the need for political candidates to understand it. “Aligning politically the interests of workers – all workers,” says Hindery “is
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