May 10, 2022 | iMail
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) urged Members of Congress to support a letter to the House Appropriations Committee, calling for increased funding for National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The bipartisan effort is respectfully requesting $368 million, at a minimum. The increased funding would also address the NLRB’s regional office staffing crisis and remove the barrier prohibiting the board from implementing an electronic voting system to conduct union representation elections. The IAM fully supports the call for increased funding.
“The IAM greatly supports efforts to ensure workers have the workplace rights they greatly deserve, and that includes an NLRB with the funding and resources the agency needs,” IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr., wrote.
The requested increase in funding would provide long-overdue resources to allow the NLRB to accomplish its primary mission. Since FY2010, the NLRB’s budget remained stagnant and has decreased 25 percent in real dollars adjusted for inflation.
“Overall staffing levels have dropped by 39 percent over the past two decades and field staffing has been cut in half. These cuts come while there has been a dramatic increase in labor activity which has caused a higher caseload for NLRB staff,” according to the letter congressional members sent to appropriators.
The NLRB is an independent agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer and enforce the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRA is the primary and largely exclusive federal statute governing labor relations in the private sector. It serves the public interest by effectively and efficiently reducing disruptions to commerce caused by labor disputes.
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May 10, 2022 | iMail
This past Friday Mike Rose Chief of Staff to the International President, Woodworkers Department met with members of the Building and Woodworkers’ International (BWI). The BWI is the Global Union Federation grouping free and democratic unions with members in the Building, Building Materials, Wood, Forestry, and Allied sectors. The IAM is a proud member of BWI.
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May 10, 2022 | iMail
WASHINGTON, 22 de abril 22 de 2022 – Cientos de mecánicos y afines que trabajan en Lufthansa Technik, Puerto Rico, LLC. en Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, están votando en una elección de la Junta Nacional de Mediación (NMB, por sus siglas en inglés) para unirse con la Asociación Internacional de Maquinistas y Trabajadores Aeroespaciales (IAM), la unión de aerolíneas y transporte más grande de América del Norte
La NMB envió las boletas por correo el 10 de marzo de 2022. El período de votación de la elección es del 10 de marzo de 2022 hasta el 5 de mayo de 2022. El conteo final será en las oficinas de la Junta en Washington, DC el 5 de mayo de 2022.
READ: Trabajadores de Lufthansa Technik en Puerto Rico votarán por representación de la unión de maquinistas
A principios de este ano, la Junta Nacional de Mediación (NMB, por sus siglas en inglés) determinó que la IAM tenía suficientes muestras de interés para proceder a una elección por correo. Los trabajadores de Lufthansa Technik han soportado tácticas agresivas antisindicales y peticiones para detener el derecho de los trabajadores a unirse a la IAM.
Recientemente, el Presidente Internacional de la IAM, Robert Martinez Jr., y el Vicepresidente General del Territorio del Sur de la IAM, Rickey Wallace, visitaron a mecánicos y afines de Lufthansa Technik.
“Estos trabajadores de Lufthansa que trabajan arduamente están haciendo un trabajo fantástico organizando a sus compañeros y los insté a votar por la IAM en esta elección por correo,” dijo Martínez. “Se enfrentan a muchos problemas en el lugar de trabajo, que incluyen horas de trabajo reducidas, reglas de trabajo irregulares y salarios y beneficios inadecuados. Con la IAM como su representante legal, podemos ayudar a abordar estos problemas con la gerencia.”
“Los trabajadores nos explicaron cómo esta empresa los ha desilusionado año tras año,” dijo Wallace. “Los trabajadores de Lufthansa Technik merecen salarios y beneficios competitivos.”
“Nuestra esperanza es hacer un cambio positivo,” dijo Juan Negrón, Asistente Especial del Presidente Internacional de la IAM. “Sabemos que representaremos los mejores intereses de los trabajadores y sus familias.”
Mecánicos de Lufthansa Technik y afines proveen servicios para United Airlines, Allegiant, Spirit, Avianca y, recientemente, JetBlue.
La Asociación Internacional de Maquinistas y Trabajadores Aeroespaciales (IAM) se encuentra entre las uniones industriales más grandes de América del Norte y representa a casi 600,000 miembros activos y jubilados en los sectores de fabricación, aeroespacial, defensa, líneas aéreas, ferrocarriles, transporte, construcción naval, carpintería, atención de la salud, y otras industrias.
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May 10, 2022 | iMail
While waiting for a response to our recent request to the National Mediation Board that a proffer of arbitration be issued by the Board to move our contract dispute to the next level, CBC unions participated in two additional days of mediated bargaining sessions with NCCC this week.
Once again, the nation’s class 1 rail carriers showed just how far removed they are from the realities that their employees and shippers are experiencing. Without regard for the beating that these rail carriers took in front of the surface Transportation Board a week ago, and ignoring their continued record profit reports, the rail carriers continue to advance proposals at the bargaining table that they have previously been told are unacceptable to the CBC Unions and our members.
Due to the NCCC’s refusal to negotiate a fair agreement in good faith, all CBC Unions again request that the NMBproffer arbitration to the parties to stop the endless delays by the rail carriers.
As we advised in January and April, we had hoped that the involvement of the NMB would cause the industry to refocus on addressing the legitimate needs of the men and women whose labor generates their positive financial returns. That has not happened, and there is no indication that it will without allowing the remaining steps of the Railway Labor Act to play out to compel a favorable settlement.
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The unions comprising the Coordinated Bargaining Coalition are: the American Train Dispatchers Association (ATDA); the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen / Teamsters Rail Conference (BLET); the brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS); the International Association of Machinists (IAM); the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (IBB); the National Conference of Firemen & Oilers/SEIU (NCFO); the InternationalBrotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU); the Transportation Communications Union / IAM (TCU), including TCU’s Brotherhood Railway Carmen Division (BRC); and the transportation Division of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers (SMART–TD).
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May 9, 2022 | LL S6 Leadership Alerts
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