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IAM Transportation General Vice President Sito Pantoja today issued the following statement to mark the somber anniversary of 9-11: Thirteen years ago today, the United States suffered mind-numbing acts of barbarism. Cowardly terrorist murderers hijacked United and American Airlines jetliners and killed thousands of innocent people. United Airlines Customer Service employees and IAM members Marianne
Read moreRepublican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, facing a tough re-election fight in November, is wasting no time throwing darts at her favorite target: organized labor. Haley’s first TV campaign ad of the year revisits a 2011 complaint filed against Boeing by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for illegally retaliating against IAM members in Washington
Read moreWith only three weeks left before the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank is scheduled to shut its doors, IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger is urging U.S. Senators to support a bipartisan bill to keep the lending agency running through 2019. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), would make increases in the
Read moreThe California Court of Appeals has upheld a 2012 Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) decision that the City of Long Beach illegally furloughed its employees in 2009. PERB is the agency that enforces the collective bargaining law (Meyers-Milias-Brown Act or MMBA) that applies to local governments. On May 5, 2009, the Long Beach City Council
Read moreIAM members raised over $10,000 for Guide Dogs of America at the Battle of the Boards Cornhole Tournament at Watkins Regional Park in Upper Marlboro, MD. The IAM Battle of the Boards Cornhole Tournament raised over $10,000 for Guide Dogs of America, a non-profit organization founded by an IAM member that provides guide dogs to
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