Fresh off a two-week recess, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell kicked off today’s session by getting the legislative ball rolling on the Senate’s FAA bill. McConnell moved to proceed to an unrelated House bill (H.R. 636), which will serve as the legislative shell for the Senate’s FAA measure (S. 2658), the first of several steps […]
As the largest union in the airline industry, the IAM has led the fight to protect Customer Service Agents from assault by hostile customers. We need our IAM members to call their senators immediately and tell them to vote YES to an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization bill offered by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) that
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THANK YOU TO ALL IAM MEMBERS!!! GREAT DAY ON CAPITOL HILL! THANK YOU IAM LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT!! BOTH THE ASSAULT AMENDMENT AND THE 10 HOUR REST RULE FOR FLIGHT ATTENDANTS PASSED AND WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE 2016 FAA REAUTHORIZATION BILL. AWESOME JOB!
Felony for Assaulting a Customer Service Agent Amendment has PASSED! Read More »
A ratification vote on your Tentative Agreement was conducted this week on Tuesday at the MIA station and on Wednesday at the FLL station. With approximately 70 percent of the membership participating in this vote, the Agreement was ratified by an overwhelming majority of the voting membership. I again wish to thank the Bahamasair membership
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With the recently reached Tentative Agreement, a ratification vote will occur on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 for the MIA station and on Wednesday, October 21 for the FLL Station. The ratification vote will take place at the airport in the break rooms from 1100-1500. At the ratification meeting, all members will have an opportunity
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Talks have continued over the summer concerning a structure of Tentative Agreements. Before the Company could commit to any Agreement that we could submit to the membership for ratification, it had to again be reviewed and approved by a Bahamian Government Labor Sub-Committee. That process was completed recently and was then forwarded to the IAMAW
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Negotiations were conducted this week on December 10 and 11 in MIA. Present for the Company were Cornel Mortimer, Director – Human Resources, and Keith Archer, Labor Consultant. Present for your Union was James M. Samuel, General Chairperson. As you may be aware, Shannon Henfield from FLL, and who has previously participated on the negotiating
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Posted June 2, 2014. The IAM/Bahamasair Collective Bargaining Agreement becomes amendable on December 31, 2014. Per Article 24 of the Agreement, either party may serve notice in accordance with Section 6, Title 1 of the Railway Labor Act, to commence the negotiations process up to one hundred eighty (180) days before the amendable date. This
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