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After two days of Congressional hearings into the proposed merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines, many in Congress are questioning whether further airline consolidation is in the best interest of employees, passengers and taxpayers. “United and Continental are repeating a strategic move that many airlines before them have made but that has brought sustained
Read moreThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ (IAM) General Vice President Robert Roach, Jr. will testify before three Congressional Committees this week about the proposed merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines. “The IAM is concerned that the new entity may be too big to succeed,” said Roach. “Failure of such a large entity
Read moreThere are three Congressional hearings scheduled for the week of June 14, 2010 to investigate the proposed merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines. The Machinists Union has been invited to testify at all three hearings to ensure the concerns of 26,000 IAM members at Continental and United are heard. IAM members in the Washington,
Read moreMachinists’ Union representatives met with acting director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Vince Snowbarger and his staff this week to discuss the impact a merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines could have on employee pension plans. General Vice President Robert Roach, Jr., District 141 President Rich Delaney, District 142 President Tom Higginbotham
Read moreThe National Mediation Board (NMB) had published in the Federal Register its final change to rules governing representation elections conducted under the Railway Labor Act. The complete text of the rule change is available here. “Thousands of Machinists Union members and hundreds of members of Congress told the NMB that it was time to end its
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