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Who’s Next? JetBlue Cuts An Entire Employee Group

JetBlue announced plans to eliminate all Lead Crewmember jobs from Airport Ground Operations at the airline. The changes are scheduled to take effect this holiday season, on New Year’s Day. “Lead” agents at airlines are non-management...

IAM Birthday Week: Remembering Tom Talbot, IAM Founder, Visionary and Loyal Unionist

On May 5th 1888, Thomas W. Talbot organized what we now call the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). On that day, 19 railroad workers in a locomotive pit, tired of poor employment conditions, founded a...

Here’s How You Can Honor a Fallen Coworker at the IAMAW Worker’s Memorial

Each year, April 28 is recognized as Workers’ Memorial Day, a day for us to commemorate the thousands of workers killed, injured, or sickened on the job. Your local can memorialize a fallen member with a personalized brick placed at...