by Eric Price | Oct 16, 2020 | Community Service, Community Service Page, Education, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, MNPL, Organizing, Page Five, Page Four, Page Three, Page Two, retirement, Row 2, Safety, Video
“Shut ‘Em Down!” Mary Sansom has fought for airline workers for decades, taking on managers, politicians, and even retirement on the way. Sister Mary Sansom was initiated into Local 1833 of the Machinists Union in 1973 when she began working in the...
by Eric Price | Oct 14, 2020 | Featured, Featured News, Front Page, MNPL, Row 2
The US Census Bureau announced this week it will end all operations to gather data for the 2020 Census at 11:59 PM Hawaii Standard Time on Thursday, October 15, after the Supreme Court agreed to suspend an order from a lower court that extended the timeline for the...
by Eric Price | Oct 14, 2020 | COVID, Education, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, MNPL, Organizing, Page Five, Page Four, Page Three, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2, Video
A small army of Fighting Machinists took to the streets of Philadelphia this week to encourage union members to get out and vote. In-person early voting is underway in Pennsylvania, and members of IAM Air Transport Local 1776 left voting information on the doors of...
by Eric Price | Oct 14, 2020 | Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, MNPL, Page Five, Page Four, Page Three, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2, Uncategorized, Video
The IAM Legal department is raising concerns about Amy Coney Barrett’s anti-labor record as a federal circuit judge. “As a graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School, I know Amy Coney Barrett very well. Her positions and her approach to the law are...
by Eric Price | Oct 12, 2020 | COVID, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, MNPL, Organizing, Page Five, Page Four, Page Three, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2, Uncategorized
As many of you are aware of by now, President Trump yesterday terminated negotiations with Democrats on a federal relief stimulus package, only to change course hours later to demand the House and Senate immediately approve $25 billion in new aid for the airline...
by Eric Price | Oct 9, 2020 | COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, MNPL, Organizing, Page Five, Page Four, Page Three, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2
141 Report: District Lobbyist James Wells James Wells, from Local 1726 in Boston, talks about some of the legislative work being done in the New England area on behalf of airline workers. James “Jamie” Wells is a well known Machinists Union activist and organizer...
