by Eric Price | May 3, 2019 | Airlines, American, Departments, Featured, Home, Organizing, The Association
Brothers and Sisters, American Airlines has made the determination to try changing the negotiations from the bargaining table to directly bargaining in the breakrooms, on the shop floor and on the ramp. Their direct appeal to TWU and IAM members represented by the...
by Eric Price | May 3, 2019 | Airlines, American, Departments, EAP, Hawaiian, Helping Hands, Home, Philippine, Spirit, United
We focus on drug addiction this month. Drug Addiction is defined and explored on page 1. Page 2 addresses whether drug addiction can be cured or prevented. Much of the information is from the www.drugabuse.gov web site. This is a very good resource and I encourage you...
by Eric Price | May 1, 2019 | Airlines, Departments, Home, retirement, United
Changes are focused on benefit subsidies, not retirees. The IAM National Pension Fund is one of the largest and best-funded retirement plans in the US, with total assets that exceed 18 billion dollars. This week, beneficiaries received some concerning news as the...
by Eric Price | Apr 27, 2019 | Airlines, Departments, Featured, Home, retirement, United
The IAMAW and IAM District 141 are separate entities than the IAM National Pension Plan (NPP), even though both bear the “IAM” acronym. For those DL 141 IAM represented employees in the NPP, a letter was sent to your homes by the NPP. If you haven’t already received...
by Eric Price | Apr 26, 2019 | Airlines, American, Departments, Featured, Home, Organizing, The Association
Brothers and Sisters, The Association leadership met with American Airlines’ negotiators and Federal Mediators this week in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The Mediator’s unorthodox approach to these negotiations failed to provide adequate space for the parties to face-off in the...
by Eric Price | Apr 15, 2019 | Departments, Home, MNPL
The new law prevents Right to Work ordinances from confiscating employee resources at the city and county level. Starting immediately, workers in Illinois will no longer have their property and labor taken away from them under city-level Right to Work laws. The...
