by Eric Price | Aug 25, 2020 | Front Page, GOIAM Stories, Organizing, Row 2
/// Originally posted on GOIAM.org /// While the following story describes events outside the aviation and aerospace industries, it represents a major milestone in the history of our great union, and so we want to make a record of it at IAM141.org. The strike action...
by Eric Price | Aug 21, 2020 | Airlines, Featured News, Front Page, Organizing, Row 2, Uncategorized
A Conversation With Tony Colina, President of Local 2198 in Houston The President of the biggest little old local in Texas. Hi everybody! I started my airline career in August 1996 with Continental Airlines where I worked the Reservations foreign language desk taking...
by Eric Price | Aug 17, 2020 | Featured News, Front Page, Organizing, Row 2, Uncategorized
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) recently filed an application for a representation election at the National Mediation Board (NMB) in Washington D.C. The filing comes after approximately a 10-month campaign, spearheaded by over...
by Eric Price | Aug 10, 2020 | Airlines, COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, MNPL, Organizing, Row 2, Uncategorized
The IAMAW, along with a coalition of airline unions, is gaining momentum on Capitol Hill. After securing support from a bipartisan majority of the U.S. House, the IAM needs your help convincing the Senate that they must act now to save hundreds of thousands of airline...
by Eric Price | Aug 7, 2020 | Airlines, American, COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, Organizing, Row 2, Uncategorized, United, Video
A Conversation With New President of Phoenix’s Local 2559, Don Carbonneau. Brother Don Carbonneau talks about Sky Harbor Lodge and the job of being a Local President during the pandemic. Brother Don Started his airline career in 1996 at America West Airlines,...
by Eric Price | Aug 6, 2020 | Airlines, American, COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, MNPL, Organizing, United
A group of 16 Republican Senators sent a letter to Senate leaders supporting a measure that would provide $25 billion in additional payroll assistance to airlines. President Trump has endorsed the plan, clearing the way for an extension of the Payroll Support Program,...
