NEGOTIATION UPDATE Late in the evening on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, your IAM & IBEW Negotiation Committees reached a Tentative Contract Agreement with GE Management. Your Committees negotiated an independent IAM & IBEW Collective Bargaining Agreement covering both memberships, working for GE.
Read moreGE Management has informed the IAM Negotiating Committee they will be responding to our last proposal at 9:00 am on Tuesday, August 6, 2019. Updates will follow tomorrow.
Read moreMembers of IAM Local 2018 were greeted by IAM International President Bob Martinez and IAM Midwest Territory General Vice President Steve Galloway on the strike line at Regal Beloit in Valparaiso, IN Friday. Martinez and Galloway presented the Local with a check for $10k in support of their efforts.
Read moreGE Management returned to the negotiations table in mid-afternoon on Monday, August 5, 2019. Management presented proposals that covered General Wage Increases and COLA, Ratification Bonus, and Health Care. Your IAM Negotiation Committee then caucused and had dialog among the Local Lodge Committee Representatives. Your IAM Negotiation Committee then came to a consensus to make
Read moreThe IAM Midwest Territory applauds IAM Local 778 Directing Business Representative Joe Capra on winning the Kansas City’s Labors Educational Political Club Independent (LEPCI) “2019 Labor Representative of the Year” award and IAM Special Representative Brian Simmons on winning LEPCI’s “Defeat Right to Work” award.
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