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Mechanic & Related/Stores/MCT and Fleet Service TWU-IAM Association Negotiating Committees met for the first time this week at the IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Training Center in Hollywood, MD. The Contract Preparation Program was launched by TWU-IAM Association Chair and Vice-Chair, Sito Pantoja and Harry Lombardo, who pledged the full support of the Association to attain
Read moreIAM represented ExpressJet Flight Attendants yesterday once again took their fight for equal pay public by conducting nationwide picketing with their AFA-CWA sisters and brothers. Picket lines appeared at major airports around the country, including Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Los Angeles, Portland, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Flight Attendants informed the
Read moreNew York Sen. Chuck Schumer joined IAM District 19 leadership, to urge the Department of Transportation to green light Amtrak’s efforts to buy brand new Acela trains. At Alstom Transport in Hornell, NY, Schumer, alongside Directing General Chairman John Lacey and General Chairman Gary Naylor, said the roughly $3 billion train project could significantly improve
Read moreThe National Mediation Board (NMB) yesterday released every commuter union on New Jersey Transit (NJT) from mediated talks.??The unions—including the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)—working together in the New Jersey Transit Rail Labor Coalition, immediately announced their intention to invoke a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB), which will make non-binding recommendations to settle
Read moreThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) yesterday announced that Spirit Airlines Ramp Agents approved their first collective bargaining agreement by a staggering 98 percent. The five year first agreement runs through 2020 and provides between approximately 13 and 22 percent in general wage increases, no layoff protection, no outsourcing guarantees, benefit preservation,
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