by Eric Price | Jan 18, 2020 | American, Featured, Home, Safety
Union safety inspectors and company representatives conducted a safety walk-through audit last week at Sea-Tac airport in Seattle. The exercise was sponsored by Local 1351 and the unionized workers at American Airlines. The planned safety audit was joined by company...
by Eric Price | Jan 10, 2020 | Airlines, Featured, Hawaiian, Home, Organizing, Uncategorized
Brothers and Sisters, District Lodge 141 and 142, along with Hawaiian Airlines, have agreed to enter into a ‘Limited Issue/Expedited Negotiation’ process in an effort to reach new contract agreements prior to the amendable date of the existing Agreements. This process...
by Eric Price | Jan 10, 2020 | Airlines, Featured, Home, MNPL, Uncategorized, Video
When airlines spend millions to influence public policy, they don’t always have the best interests of their workers in mind. The Machinists Union Non-Partisan Political League was formed to ensure that airline workers are not forgotten as critical legislation...
by Eric Price | Jan 9, 2020 | American, Featured, Home, Uncategorized, Video
After 18 years as president of Local 1776, Rich Howell handed the gavel to Larry Reeves, the newly elected president of the local, at a moving ceremony in Philadelphia last week. Howell’s family, and Obie O’Brien, President of the Pennsylvania State Council of...
by Eric Price | Dec 23, 2019 | Airlines, Featured, Home
Anti-union forces suffer a big setback as “Janus copycat” lawsuit dismissed In a major victory for unionized workers in transportation, a Federal District Court in New Jersey dismissed a lawsuit filed against the IAM, District 141 and Local 914. Plaintiffs Linda...
by Eric Price | Dec 13, 2019 | Airlines, American, Departments, Featured, Home, Organizing, The Association
Sisters and Brothers, Over the past several weeks, the Association, the NMB and American Airlines have been working to reach the tentative agreement our members have been promised and rightfully deserve. As most of you know, we also agreed to limit communications in a...
