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Swissport Negotiating Committee, from left: Joseph Morones, Steven Van Note, General Chairman Randy Griffith, Bronson McGee and Rob Helmer. The Swissport Negotiating Committee this week completed Negotiations Preparation in Phoenix to get ready for first contract negotiations. The fuelers voted by a 98 percent margin for IAM representation in November 2015. During the week-long program
Read moreGeneral Vice President Sito Pantoja issued the following statement regarding the tragic bombings in Brussels, Belgium: “Being the largest air and rail transportation union in North America, and a proud member of the 4.5 million member International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), the IAM is especially sensitive to the senseless and cowardly acts of terror that
Read moreInternational Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 142 today announced that due to the “true up” provision negotiated during the last round of collective bargaining, IAM workers at Southwest Airlines will receive an additional $119 million in wages and lump sum payments. “I’d like to thank the IAM negotiating committee at Southwest for
Read moreThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and Transportation Communications Union (TCU), part of a coalition of 13 unions representing more than 4,000 workers at New Jersey Transit, have reached a tentative contract agreement with the commuter rail carrier. The deal avoids a strike that would have shut down the nation’s third-largest commuter
Read moreThe IAM, TCU and entire New Jersey Transit Labor Coalition are continuing talks today in an attempt to avert a strike of the carrier at 12:01 AM, Sunday. New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez spoke outside Newark, NJ’s Penn Station and was not pleased with reports of NJT’s refusal to accept a fair settlement to the
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