Dear Sisters and Brothers: Labor Day, celebrated on the first Monday of September, holds deep significance for working women and men across the United States. While for many, it marks the unofficial end of summer and a day off work, for union members, it is a day to reflect on the enduring struggle for workers’ […]
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Dear Sisters and Brothers: To All District Lodge 142 Stewards, Chief Stewards, Committeepersons, Educators, General Chairpersons, and Admins: Happy Anniversary! Your Grievance Manager Program (GMP) just celebrated its one-year anniversary. This is the first time the District Lodge has communicated with all contractual representatives via mass communication, which is another thing made possible by GMP.
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Dear Sisters and Brothers: Hurricane Beryl made landfall on Monday, July 8, 2024, near Matagorda, TX, about 100 miles from Houston, battering Southeast Texas and Louisiana with heavy rains and winds. Several deaths have already been attributed to the storm in Texas and Louisiana, and over a million power outages have been reported, including outages
POST ON ALL IAM BULLETIN BOARDS Dear Sisters and Brothers: Every May 31st we celebrate Flight Attendant Appreciation Day, also known as International Flight Attendant Day and World Cabin Crew Appreciation Day. This special day of recognition was first celebrated in 2015 in Canada. From there it spread to the U.S. and countries all over
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Sisters & Brothers, As you know the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) are members of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), which has unions from all over the world working together to protect workers’ rights on a global scale. In accordance with this work they have issued a survey regarding harassment at
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Sisters and Brothers: While we have been able to reach an agreement in principle regarding your severance package, we are still finalizing the agreement and appreciate your patience. We have been in constant contact with the Company for the last weeks in trying to finalize the agreement because we understand you do need to be
Sisters and Brothers: Your IAM representatives met with the Company on November 29 to continue to negotiate the effects of the closure of the OpenSkies U.S. base. Present on your behalf were Shop Stewards, Cathy Carey and Khale Unger along with me and Grand Lodge Representatives, Mike Manzo and Sandy Gardner. We exchanged our first
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Sisters and Brothers, Your IAM representatives met with the Company on November 6, 2018 to negotiate the effects of the closure of the OpenSkies U.S. base. We discussed severance pay, medical and dental insurance continuation along with continuation of any available pass travel benefits. In addition we discussed recall rights in the case that OpenSkies
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Sisters and Brothers: We are deeply saddened to announce that the Company has made the unfortunate decision to close the U.S. OpenSkies cabin crew base for operational reasons. This decision was presented to the Union at a meeting held on, September 26, 2018, in Washington D.C.. This was not a discussion on whether or not the
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The House of Representatives Needs to Vote YES on the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Bill H.R. 4! The House of Representatives will be putting the FAA Reauthorization Bill H.R. 4 to a vote this Thursday, April 26th. We need every IAM member to contact their House Representative and tell them to vote YES on H.R. 4.
