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The IAM Human Rights Seminar will be held February 28 – March 5, 2010 at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, MD. Training will include guidance in establishing lodge Human Rights Committees and making existing Committees more effective. The curriculum for this basic class was designed to provide a greater understanding
Read moreThe IAM is welcoming the unanimous support of Connecticut’s Congressional delegation in the fight to prevent Pratt & Whitney from closing a pair of aircraft factories in Connecticut and eliminating more than 1,000 high-skilled jobs. In a joint letter to President Obama, the delegation took the unusual step of urging the president to become directly
Read moreIn response to job security concerns among IAM members employed in the service contract industry, the IAM recently convened a meeting of ten major service contract companies and an equal number of IAM representatives with members covered under Service Contract Act (SCA) agreements. “The U.S. government is currently reviewing contracts it maintains with private contractors,
Read moreThe IAM has lodged a protest with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over plans by contractor Lockheed Martin to reduce the number of Automated Flight Service Stations (AFSS) in the United States. AFSS Specialists provide preflight weather briefings, in-flight radio services, issue notices to airmen, handle flight plans
Read moreThe National Mediation Board’s (NMB) proposed change to its current election process is gaining wide bi partisan support in Congress. On December 7, 2009, James Oberstar (D-MN), Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and George Miller (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, led 178 Democratic members of the
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