American Airlines Fails to Honor Their Word

Brothers and Sisters, As was reported earlier, the Association Executive Negotiating Committee met with American Airlines June 25th through June 27th in Washington, DC. During those meetings, your committee and the company made some progress in Scope discussions and...

Tentative Agreement overwhelmingly passed between the IAM and Flagship Facility Services, Inc.

The Tentative Agreement between the IAM and Flagship Facility Services, Inc. was overwhelmingly passed by IAM members with 90% of votes in favor. With the new TA in place members will see wage increases, enhanced benefits, and pension contributions from Flagship. The...

Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Has History of Opposing Unions

President Trump’s appointment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, if confirmed by the Senate, could cement the court’s pro-business tilt for decades to come. This appointment has the potential to affect every one of us in a labor union. Labor unions have...

July 4th, Happy Birthday America!

Janus Case Decision: How it Will Affect the IAM and Transportation Workers

June 27, 2018 the Supreme Court ruled on Janus v. AFSCME (American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees) case. This is the case which was brought to the Supreme Court to decide if it is unconstitutional for public-sector employees to have to pay union...

Local Lodge 1886 Hosts Charity Event for Guide Dogs of America

IAM and Flagship Facility Services Reach Tentative Agreement

Negotiations yield wage increases, enhanced benefits, pension contributions Forty-one members of Local 1781 of the IAM representing employees of Flagship Facility Services, Inc. at SFO will vote on a tentative agreement reached by negotiators and the company and...

Local Lodge 1759 Women’s Committee Learns Self Defense

IAM141 Educators Visit Local Lodge 2559

Association, American Meet

Brothers and Sisters, Association negotiators met with American Airlines Monday and Tuesday this week. The purpose of the meetings was to discuss minor, but important open issues. Some progress was made, but American remains unreasonable by not settling issues they...

TWU-IAM Supports Aircraft Maintenance Anti-Offshoring Bill

Brothers and Sisters, On behalf of the members of the TWU-IAM Association, we would like to extend our enthusiastic support for the Aircraft Maintenance Offshoring Bill, federal legislation that would support US aircraft maintenance workers. This bill is intended to...