by Eric Price | Jul 9, 2020 | COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, Row 2, Uncategorized, United
En Español /// To IAM members at United Airlines: Yesterday, as required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, United Airlines informed the IAM that 12,645 District 141-represented workers could be furloughed as soon as October 1, 2020. It...
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...
by Eric Price | Jul 6, 2020 | Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, MNPL, Row 2
Robert Martinez Jr., International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), issued the following statement regarding the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) going into effect today: “USMCA won’t stop the hundreds...
by Eric Price | Jul 3, 2020 | Community Service, Community Service Page, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, Row 2, Video
A Conversation with Russ Gittlen from Guide Dogs of America Russ Gittlen joined the IAM as a UPS mechanic and has been an active member for nearly three decades. He became a shop steward at UPS in 1990 and was appointed Business Representative in Lodge 447 in 2000....
by Eric Price | Jul 1, 2020 | Community Service, Community Service Page, COVID, Featured News, Front Page, MNPL, Organizing, Row 2
Members of IAM Local 1932 organize and host a food distribution event at their local lodge in Hawthorne, California Joe Martinez, Community Services Representative led the collaboration between Local 1932, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LA Fed)...
by Eric Price | Jun 30, 2020 | COVID, Featured News, Front Page, retirement, Row 2
June 30, 2020 Brothers and Sisters at United Airlines, Hopefully, you have all seen the latest Voluntary Separation Program 2 (VSP 2) that United Airlines has offered. As we all try to navigate through these very tumultuous times together, I know we all wish there...
