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In addition to organizing 45 new members at a pair of newly-merged auto dealerships in British Columbia, District 250 also succeeded in winning a seminal ruling on seniority rights from the British Columbia Labour Relations Board. The first organizing win followed an election among workers in Nanaimo, BC, where a Pontiac dealer absorbed a Chevrolet
Read moreA preliminary report from the U.S. Department of Labor shows employers issued 1,564 mass layoff notices in the first quarter which resulted in 221,150 workers losing their jobs. That’s compared to the quarter prior, where there were 2,419 mass layoffs affecting 406,815 workers. And the first quarter of 2009, when there were 3,979 mass layoffs
Read moreEmployees working for Defense Support Services, L.L.C. (DS-2) at Tucson International Airport have voted overwhelmingly for IAM representation, bringing to 12 the number of sites in Southern Arizona represented by Old Pueblo Lodge 933. “Brother Richard Schweiss was key in getting this worksite on board and educating these workers about what a union can do
Read moreTargeting unemployed Pennsylvanians, the Union of Unemployed this week began airing ‘Our Turn,’ a hard hitting 30-second ad that urges the jobless to vote on Election Day. To view the ad, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY32IZ9TL0E “With 629,000 unemployed and three times that number suffering through this Grave Recession, the Keystone State mirrors what is happening all
Read moreIAM members sent more than 24 thousand cards and letters to the NMB supporting the proposed rule change. The National Mediation Board (NMB) this week published in the Federal Register its long-awaited change to rules governing representation elections conducted under the Railway Labor Act. In the brief summary of the historic change, the NMB declared:
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