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 21, 2019 | Airmail, Featured, Home, Uncategorized
Airline Workers Rising: a look back at Fall 2019 for District 141 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. A quick look back at a few of the events that we’re all super proud of this past autumn. [gdlr_stunning_text...
by Eric Price | Nov 14, 2019 | Home, Organizing, Uncategorized
Outsourcing is one of the leading causes of unemployment in America and a major driver of wage stagnation. But now, union members at Alaska Airlines have just voted to approve a deal that will end the practice for some 5,000 workers at the carrier. In 2005, while...
by Eric Price | Jun 14, 2019 | Featured, Home, Uncategorized
The world’s largest aerospace and transportation union is redefining the way unions communicate. Machinists Union International President Robert Martinez, Jr. proudly showcased the work that union communicators are doing to advance the cause of workers’ rights last...
