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 2, 2020 | COVID, Featured, Front Page, MNPL, Row 2, Uncategorized
The IAM is among several labor unions urging Congress to extend a provision of the CARES Act coronavirus relief law as an effort to thwart airline executives threatening to lay-off several workers in the fall. The IAM signed a letter asking the federal lawmakers to...
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...
by Eric Price | Jun 30, 2020 | Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, Row 2
IAM District 37 President Byron Williams headlined an Organized Labor for Black Lives Matter rally in Huntsville, AL on Saturday, June 20. The rally was hosted by the North Alabama Labor Council. Williams, a long-time IAM labor leader in Texas, is the first Black...
by Eric Price | Jun 27, 2020 | COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, Home, MNPL, Row 2
Three months ago I wrote to the membership stating we were about to face a situation unparalleled in our lifetime due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and that nobody could accurately predict what would come next. The picture is now starting to get clearer, and it is not...
