by Eric Price | Nov 27, 2020 | Community Service, Community Service Page, COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, Organizing, Page Four, Page Three, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2, Uncategorized, Video
141 Report: Houston’s Community Service and Veterans Committees For Thanksgiving weekend, we feature a Community Service project at Local 2198. Rose Lopes-Harris and Brenda Douglas join us to talk about the Houston local’s Community Service and Veterans...
by Eric Price | Nov 25, 2020 | Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, Organizing, Page Five, Page Four, Page Three, Perusals, Row 2, Uncategorized
Recently, more than 193 seasonal employees at Seneca Foods vegetable processing facility in Leicester, NY voted to join the IAM. This organizing campaign accomplished something relatively unheard of, filing for an election with just 30 percent of the workforce signing...
by Eric Price | Nov 24, 2020 | Airlines, Featured, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, Page Five, Page Four, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2, Safety, Safety
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted the grounding of the 737 Max, clearing the way for airlines to begin scheduling flights in the upcoming months. The move comes after more than a year of the IAM partnering with the FAA and Congress to ensure the...
by Eric Price | Nov 23, 2020 | Community Service, COVID, Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, MNPL, Organizing, Page Three, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2
IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr. recently joined the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) podcast “El Desvio, Many Roads, one Destination.” Martinez discusses the recent presidential election, COVID-19, and how organizations like the IAM...
by Eric Price | Nov 19, 2020 | Featured, Featured News, Front Page, GOIAM Stories, Organizing, Page Five, Page Three, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2, Uncategorized
Nearly 120 members of IAM Local 2766 overwhelmingly ratified a new contract with Tyonek Services Group. The aerospace workers who maintain helicopters at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama have seen significant improvements in compensation since joining the IAM in 2017. The...
by Eric Price | Nov 18, 2020 | Featured News, Front Page, Organizing, Page Four, Page Three, Page Two, Perusals, Row 2, Uncategorized
Laying the groundwork for Unionizing your workplace Federal law says that if most employees in a workplace want to join a Union, all they have to do is sign a petition telling Federal regulators that they want to unionize and then put the matter up to a vote....
