by Eric Price | Jan 18, 2020 | American, Featured, Home, Safety
Union safety inspectors and company representatives conducted a safety walk-through audit last week at Sea-Tac airport in Seattle. The exercise was sponsored by Local 1351 and the unionized workers at American Airlines. The planned safety audit was joined by company...
by Eric Price | Jan 10, 2020 | Airlines, Featured, Hawaiian, Home, Organizing, Uncategorized
Brothers and Sisters, District Lodge 141 and 142, along with Hawaiian Airlines, have agreed to enter into a ‘Limited Issue/Expedited Negotiation’ process in an effort to reach new contract agreements prior to the amendable date of the existing Agreements. This process...
by Eric Price | Jan 10, 2020 | Airlines, Featured, Home, MNPL, Uncategorized, Video
When airlines spend millions to influence public policy, they don’t always have the best interests of their workers in mind. The Machinists Union Non-Partisan Political League was formed to ensure that airline workers are not forgotten as critical legislation...
by Eric Price | Jan 9, 2020 | American, Featured, Home, Uncategorized, Video
After 18 years as president of Local 1776, Rich Howell handed the gavel to Larry Reeves, the newly elected president of the local, at a moving ceremony in Philadelphia last week. Howell’s family, and Obie O’Brien, President of the Pennsylvania State Council of...
by Eric Price | Dec 25, 2019 | Community Service, Featured, Home, Organizing
“Have a Merry Christmas, and thank you, everyone!” -Vinny Agosta, IAMAW Local 1322 Members of Machinists Local 1322, located in the heart of Ozone Park, New York, hosted the much-anticipated annual visit from Santa at Riverview School (277Q) in Woodside, New York....
by Eric Price | Dec 23, 2019 | Airlines, Featured, Home
Anti-union forces suffer a big setback as “Janus copycat” lawsuit dismissed In a major victory for unionized workers in transportation, a Federal District Court in New Jersey dismissed a lawsuit filed against the IAM, District 141 and Local 914. Plaintiffs Linda...
