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 new four-year deal includes the following improvements: Three percent wage increase in each year of the…
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A group of 141 employees of the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) voted by 72 percent to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW). The vote was held over a three-week period via mail with the ballots tallied today. The new Machinists Union members work in every capacity at the Milwaukee Art Museum including…
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Patience and solidarity has netted a strong new contract for approximately 500 IAM Local 1243 members at Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, TX. The IAM Local 1243 Negotiating Committee stood strong and held out for a better contract after the company’s original final offer significantly raised employee health insurance costs, especially for family coverage.…
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Some of your co-workers have asked questions about right to work laws and how they impact your ability to form a union at Konikoff. Right to work laws do NOT make unions illegal. In fact, there are more than 150,000 union members in Virginia. What is right to work? Right to work is a law…
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A full residency Job Corps program not only helps young people from disadvantaged background complete their high school education, it trains them for their choice of 73 different career paths.Enter TCU/IAM Transportation Advanced Training, where young adults develop the skills needed to get a job in the transportation field. Nine training centers participate in the…
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Once again there’s more for them and less for us. The imbalance between the pay of CEOs and working people continues to increase. In 2017, CEO pay at S&P 500 Index companies increased to an average of nearly $14 million while production and nonsupervisory workers received on average just $38,613. The AFL-CIO recently released its…
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Forget what you have heard in those Dos Equis beer commercials, IAM Maine Lobstering Union (IMLU) member Joel Woods just may be the world’s most interesting man. He’s a lobsterman, a fisherman, an adventurer, world traveler, a self-proclaimed BS artist and—as far as we’re concerned—a photographer too. He’s been making a living at sea for…
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