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On the heels of a single article that quoted an unnamed source about the prospect of additional mergers in the airline industry, US Airways stock surged as much as 26 percent in after hours trading and UAL stock jumped by eight percent. In a subsequent article by Ted Reed published in TheStreet.com, IAM Transportation General
Read moreThe IAM Transportation Department led a week-long, nationwide organizing blitz of Delta Air Lines workers that was so successful the airline’s CEO resorted to the threat of arrest in hopes it would impede the organizers’ progress. He was wrong. More than 100 organizers from the Transportation Department, Grand Lodge Organizing Department, Southern Territory, Districts 141,
Read more“Without a serious commitment to protecting jobs, without new limits on unrestrained outsourcing and without a second stimulus program that is equal to the crisis this nation is facing, the airline and aerospace industries will continue to struggle, even if the rest of the economy recovers,” said International President Tom Buffenbarger, who spoke as the
Read moreThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 143 today announced it has opened collective bargaining for an amended contract covering 2,800 Alaska Airlines employees in the clerical, office and passenger service (COPS) group. The current agreement becomes amendable on July 19, 2010. “In these negotiations, just as in the rest of the
Read moreDespite a high number of votes for the IAM, the election for 91 flight simulator technicians at the recently merged Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines was declared invalid by the NMB when fewer than 50 percent plus one of eligible employees participated in the Internet and telephone voting. The Machinists Union received 40 of
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