by Eric Price | Jul 21, 2020 | Airlines, COVID, Featured News, Front Page, MNPL, Row 2, Uncategorized
Last week, a group of lawmakers in the House Transportation Committee began circulating a letter asking members of Congress to publicly support a plan that would save hundreds of thousands of airline jobs this fall. The letter calls for an extension of the Payroll...
by Eric Price | Jul 20, 2020 | Airlines, American, Featured News, Front Page, Hawaiian, MNPL, Philippine, Row 2, Spirit, Uncategorized, United
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are supporting a plan that would prevent the mass furloughs of tens of thousands of airline workers this fall by extending current payroll assistance into 2021. Congressman Peter A. DeFazio, who serves as the Chair of the House...
by Eric Price | Jul 16, 2020 | American, COVID, EAP, Front Page, MNPL, Uncategorized, United
SFO Local 1781 and 1782 Conduct 3 Days of Briefings to Help Members Prepare Chris Lusk, IAM District 141 Educator and Vice President of 1781, briefs the membership about efforts their local is taking to prepare for the potential of large-scale labor that major...
by Eric Price | Jul 15, 2020 | COVID, Front Page, MNPL, Row 2, Uncategorized
Dear Sisters and Brothers, Over the last four months, we have experienced the devastating effects of COVID-19. Many of us have lost family and friends, and just about all of us know someone whose life was cut short due to this vicious virus. In addition to the human...
by Eric Price | Jul 10, 2020 | American, COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, MNPL, Row 2
July 10, 2020 To All TWU/IAM Association Members at American Airlines: American Airlines has informed the Association that it will be sending Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notifications (WARN Act notifications) to Association covered employees. This notice, which...
by Eric Price | Jul 8, 2020 | Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, MNPL, Row 2
A Georgia Tech study has found that so-called “right-to-work” laws lead to a decrease in worker wages, confirming what labor unions have known for decades. A study published in the Journal of Financial Economics examined more than 19,000 collective bargaining...