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The Department of Labor has announced a doubling of the overtime threshold for salaried workers from $23,660 to $47,476. The long awaited change qualifies workers for overtime when working more than 40 hours a week. The new overtime rule will benefit 12.5 million workers according to a recent Economic Policy Institute report. READ: Seven Things
Read moreNine IAM members and staff earned master’s degrees in union and labor administration from the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. Pictured from left: Local 2339A member Cherie Morgan, Special Representative Mark Hollibush, Special Representative Bridget Fitzgerald, Grand Lodge Representative Richard Suarez, Grand Lodge Auditor Ed Delaporte, Local 751F member Hazel Powers and Local 2339A member
Read moreIAM General Vice President Sito Pantoja today issued the following statement in the wake of the disappearance of EgyptAir Flight 804: “Although the facts about what exactly happened to EgyptAir 804 are unclear at this point, it is obvious the aviation community has suffered another tragedy. The more than 600,000 members of the International Association
Read moreInternational President Robert Martinez, Jr., of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), issued the following statement in response to the release of U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) report on the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the American economy: “The ITC, which historically has overestimated the benefits of trade agreements, predicts
Read moreAn article in The New York Times brings to light a tall tale told by an Amazon manager in Delaware who was trying to dissuade workers there from organizing with the IAM. Kellen Wadach, the general manager at Amazon’s warehouse in Middletown, DE, told hundreds of workers that his father’s union didn’t help his family
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