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Here are a couple of examples for you.
Aloha agreements ratified by IAM members
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Aloha Airlines' mechanics and related workers have ratified concession agreements. The airline said that the concessions for its biggest union group have been ratified while it is still negotiating with the pilots and flight attendants. According to Aloha, the two...
Articles 2005-11-09
US Airways mechanics agree to job cuts; Concessions buy airline time as it converts to a low-cost carrier.(BUSINESS)
Byline: William Glanz, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Another labor union at US Airways Group Inc. yesterday agreed to eliminate thousands of jobs in an attempt to help the airline emerge from its second bankruptcy in two years. Changes approved by the International Association...
Articles 2005-01-22
US Airways mechanics appear to soften stance a bit.
By Dan Fitzpatrick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 6--Mechanics -- staunch holdouts in US Airways' call for a new round of labor concessions -- sounded a defiant tone again yesterday but also seemed to hint that their union was...
Articles 2004-08-06
Union Group at United Airlines Offers $2.5 Billion in Cuts.
Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 26--The union that represents baggage handlers and customer service workers at United Airlines has offered the carrier $2.5 billion in concessions over six years, less than the company is asking for, according to the...
Articles 2003-03-26
While Boeing hits below the belt, union officials say they have to stick to concessions on the Dreamliner work. To stop the loss of even more jobs from outsourcing, they have "won" the dubious right to bid against their low-wage competition. This is a losing strategy.
http://www.socialism.com/fsarticles/vol29n...ing_strike.html
Northwest baggage handlers and ramp workers approve concessions.
June 12 2006
Union Weakness Lets Firms Seek Big Concessions
By KRIS MAHER and TIMOTHY AEPPEL
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
September 19, 2005; Page A3
Officials of ALPA and the IAM have also reached agreement with USAir on concession contracts for these unions and are recommending acceptance to their membership.
Aug 1995
July 1999: IAM union 'leaders' bargain away contract gains at TWA
These concessions were supposedly necessary to keep the company from going out .... of rank-and-file Machinists who had shown themselves willing to take the ...
www.socialistaction.org/news/199907/iam.html - Cached - Similar -
Middleton told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "It's ugly every way you look at it...Before I sit down at the table and negotiate concessions; I need to know this plant is going to be here. I'm not going to sit down and give stuff up just to have a closing."
http://www.ibew.org/articles/05daily/0511/051114_delphi.htm ONLY PART IAM
The Seattle Times
September 4
Machinists, Boeing meeting at Disney resort in Florida
Freightliner unions OK cuts in pay, benefits: Members of four crafts unions accept the truck-maker's terms, but the survival of its Portland operations is not guaranteed NOT IAM
United Airlines' Machinist Union to Vote on Salary Concessions ...
United Airlines' Machinist Union to Vote on Salary Concessions. ... The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers will vote on whether ...
www.accessmylibrary.com/.../summary_0286-8928707_ITM
Auto Truck Transport has a contract with the IAM Union, also known as the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers. Like many organizations, the guys at the bottom are the ones doing the most amount of work.
Our Districts and Locals put a large amount of effort on recruiting members, but unfortunately have little time to represent them. On the flip side, the International is mainly in charge of “maintaining†it’s ($50,000/mo) member base.
Basically, there is a fine line on how much representing a member can get, due to the amount of politics within the ranks. With this being said;
http://autotruck.wordpress.com/
*******IAM Local 2339N: Nasty aftermath to a Trusteeship This is a real doozy too.
If you have confidence in the report of an investigating committee assigned by the international office of the Machinists union, and there are people with that kind of confidence, you would agree that there were substantial grounds for imposing an international trusteeship over Local 2339N, the union which represents airline stewards in Newark, NJ. However, what followed thereafter is another story: the heavy hand of the IAM overlords at work.
After open hearings, the investigating committee (official title: "trial committee") reported that the local was in disarray: the top officers had resigned, the books were messy, mail not picked up, bills paid late, no newsletter, and more, including the now familiar charge of pornography on computers. (The IAM seems to be keeping a fascinated eagle eye out for pornography. It's not clear whether the trial committee actually verified the charge by a close scrutiny of the computer contents.) And so on October 10, International President R.Thomas Buffenbarger dispatched a trustee to take over. So far, a normal kind of trusteeship. But then things got IAM-normally nasty.
A year ago, in November 2007, Bob Korzuch, an IAM member for 16 years and Local 2339N president back in 2005, had opened what he called a "campaign" website. On November 4, 2008, about three weeks after the trustee showed up, Korzuch formally announced that he was a candidate for international president against Buffenbarger. The ax fell swiftly. On November 24, Korzuch received a short (22 lines) certified letter from Warren L. Mart, IAM General Secretary Treasurer.
Mart informed Korzuch that an IAM auditor had reported that, back then, when Korzuch had been local president, the books revealed a "shortage" of $24,114.72, and that "in order to secure and preserve the remaining assets of the lodge, you are hereby permanently disqualified from holding any office or representing members of the IAM in any capacity…." If Korzuch objected, he could ask for a hearing before a representative appointed by Mart who obviously had already passed sentence.
As an explanation or justification of the swift draconian fall of the guillotine, Mart's letter makes no sense. Korzuch had been defeated for local president back in 2005; no one had detected any old "shortage," whatever it may have been, in those three years. Moreover, he no longer had control over local money, so that peremptory disqualification to "preserve the remaining assets" was an absurdity. There was plenty of time for leisurely due process, charges, trial, and sentence.
But there is another possible explanation: The process of electing IAM international officers begins on January 1, 2009. The IAM obviously had to act promptly if it wanted to stop Korzuch from campaigning for international president against the administration. Only in that context does Mart's letter make sense.
http://www.uniondemocracy.org/UDR/181c-Nas...Local_2339N.htm
The above couple of links, there is MUCH MUCH MORE, to answer you more directly, since you have research issues of your own. This is merely the tip of an iceberg. In the event you are not knowledgeable on the architecture of icebergs you can only see a very small percentage of an iceberg the dangerous part is the part under the water, the part you can not see; however that may be an analogy that is too much for you to infer the insinuated meaning of.
