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  • Press releases December 9, 2013

    Machinists Union Urges Slow Down on Fast Track for Trans-Pacific Partnership

    Washington, D.C., December 9, 2013 – The president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), today called on Congress to slow down the campaign for an expedited and secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement. “Our national trade policy is leading us once again into a future where U.S. workers have

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  • Press releases November 14, 2013

    Machinists Vote to Reject Boeing Proposal

    SEATTLE, November 13, 2013 – Sixty-seven percent of members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) District 751, District W-24 voted Wednesday to reject the Boeing Company’s offer of an eight-year contract extension that would have expired in 2024. IAM District 751 Directing Business Representative Tom Wroblewski issued the following statement: “Today,

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  • Press releases November 5, 2013

    Machinists to Vote on Boeing 777X Proposal

    Washington, D.C., November 5, 2013 – Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) District 751, District W-24 will vote on a proposal from the Boeing Company that, if approved, would guarantee the Boeing 777X wings and fuselage will be built by IAM members in the Puget Sound. In exchange for the

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  • Press releases October 29, 2013

    Machinists Union Opposes Plan to Cut Pensions

    Washington, D.C., October 29, 2013 — At a hearing today by the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers voiced its strong opposition to any new federal legislation that would allow “deeply-troubled” multi-employer defined benefit pension plans to reduce benefits to current retirees, a practice that

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  • Press releases August 12, 2013

    Machinists Union Wins Election for 4,600 Mechanic and Related at US Airways

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, D.C., August 12, 2013 – In a contest overseen by the Nation Mediation Board (NMB), the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today soundly defeated the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) in an election to represent nearly 4,600 Mechanic and Related employees at US Airways. The IAM received 1,903

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