BNSF laid off 25 machinists in Glendive, Montana, and closed its Murray Yard in Kansas City, cutting 29 machinists, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said in April.
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The union, which like the Machinists is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, backed off after the Machinists launched their drive.
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The Machinists The Machinists was our first episode of "State of Repair," a series I had been wanting to make for quite some time.
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"The Machinists will not support any relief package that does not put airline workers first," said Machinists union President Robert Martinez Jr. The union represents some 140,000 airline workers.
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No machinists have had involuntary layoffs for several years, Kelliher said.
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Carpenters, IBW's members, machinists, we're doing it in my state today.
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Hattersley said the victims were power house operators, machinists, and electricians.
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Persuading the optical machinists to do this at scale was even harder.
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Clinton, despite the fact that the machinists union endorsed her last summer.
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The Machinists are not the only union to engage with Uber drivers.
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GENERAL ELECTRIC MACHINISTS UNION SAYS IT OPPOSES TENTATIVE LABOR CONTRACT WITH COMPANY
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Farmers are biologists, chemists, machinists, carpenters, farmers and ranchers all in one.
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Working with freelance welders and machinists, he built prototypes in his Brooklyn kitchen.
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Bus drivers, shelf stockers,code writers, machinists, accountants,lab techs, cellists kept speaking.
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Then there's the ambivalent, middle camp, including the autoworkers, steelworkers and machinists unions.
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Other unions, he noted, such as the Machinists Union, still opposed the deal.
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Across the county, coal miners to machinists to coffee shop owners found themselves unemployed.
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Consider the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which also endorsed Mrs. Clinton.
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The machinists may also benefit from two years' worth of accumulated frustrations among workers.
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Their first complaint to me was that they could not find machinists, advanced manufacturers.
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The employees eventually voted not to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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Pence will also address the Duluth employees of family-owned Industrial Weldors and Machinists Inc.
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Robert Martinez Jr., is International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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Each new technology displaced a new cast of workers: first knitters, then farmers, then machinists.
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As time went on, all these other tasks started going to Mexico. Engineers. Machinists. Mechanics.
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It's taken on a much deeper meaning too, whether the Machinists intended it to or not.
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At GE for example, longtime machinists and technicians are now being teamed with data analytics experts.
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Robert Martinez Jr. is the International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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Employers complain that electricians, pipe fitters, advanced manufacturing machinists, brick masons and radiology technicians are scarce.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is organizing fleet workers at JetBlue as well.
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The unions — local chapters of the International Association of Machinists, United Steelworkers and the A.F.L-C.
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They worked at the complex as power house operators, machinists and electricians, the company CEO said.
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Scuba divers, or attraction machinists, are responsible for maintaining water attractions after Disneyland closes each night.
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Thanks largely to the skill of Dynamic's machinists, the company did more than survive; it prospered.
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He soon joined the machinists' union and became a founding member and president of Local 8.
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"Delta Air Lines' all-out assault on their employees' legally-protected right to unionize with the Machinists Union is confirmation that our campaign to bring the benefits of IAM-representation to 40,000 Delta ground workers and flight attendants is succeeding," the Machinists Union said in a statement.
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Hiut's mission is to find jobs for all 400 machinists, or Grand Masters as he calls them.
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By the 19553s, machinists, coal-heavers, and carpenters were striking against wage cuts and long working days.
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Ms. Schrier recently won the endorsement of the machinists' union, which represents more than 26,000 Boeing workers.
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But he founded more than a hundred companies and employed thousands of assistants, engineers, machinists, and researchers.
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Here is what we know: They were machinists, electricians and powerhouse operators from Milwaukee and its suburbs.
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The machinists were the first industrial union to endorse Clinton and remain strong backers of her candidacy.
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Sanders's hosts were the TV show "Real Time with Bill Maher," Avalon Publishing and a machinists union.
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Boeing (BA) workers in South Carolina voted against representation by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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The machinists know circulation is down, they know they've lost coworkers due to buyouts and downsizing-by-attrition.
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United Continental — The airline reached a tentative five-year labor deal with 30,000 members of its machinists union.
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"Companies do this all the time," says Owen Herrnstadt, chief of staff at the International Association of Machinists.
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As the year started, he planned to add five or six new machinists in $28-an-hour jobs.
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Electricians and machinists are also on hand during this setup, to address any problems before the run begins.
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The Machinists would also have to refrain from turning the guild into a formal union during that time.
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Boeing — Boeing workers in South Carolina voted against union representation by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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Most of our funding—over 75 percent—comes from grants, member contributions, donations, and contributions from the Machinists Union.
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Like those efforts, the Machinists' moves at Boeing South Carolina are grabbing the attention of unions and employers alike.
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They are machinists and retirees, roofers and factory line workers, all steeped in the culture of the rural South.
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Skilled employees, like machinists, can also be easier to find, given the region's history as a garment manufacturing hub.
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Some union officials complained that the guild was anti-democratic, since drivers hadn't elected Machinists officials to represent them.
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This is the machinists' third attempt to organize Boeing workers at the company's only jetliner assembly plant outside Washington state.
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Either Peter McGuire of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Union or Matthew Maguire of the International Association of Machinists.
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The machinists union said no topic was off the table in the guild's discussions with Uber, including fares and commissions.
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The machinists' union represents about 30,000 workers at Boeing's factories in Washington state and has 600,000 members, including active retirees.
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The Machinists union, which represents most of the hourly production workers in Washington state, has about 35,000 of those workers.
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Personally, I can tell you that it is very difficult to find skilled CNC machinists that are young and motivated.
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These programs have helped prepare millions of nurses, carpenters, computer support specialists and machinists across the country for their careers.
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ROBERT MARTINEZ JR. UPPER MARLBORO, MD. The writer is international president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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The former secretary of state spoke to Boeing workers and others at the Machinists Union in Everett, Washington, this week.
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Uber's 35,000 New York City-based drivers will be represented by a special arm of the International Association of Machinists (IAM).
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Mr. Rutledge found that job losses among this group were greatest for middle-skill, middle-wage jobs like machinists and clerks.
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The TWU-IAM Association is an alliance between the Transport Workers Union and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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That deal has drawn criticism within organized labor, but machinists' leaders argued that the agreement was the best they could achieve.
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International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers president Robert Martinez Jr. tied the pay freeze decision directly to the tax cuts.
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"You can go on Craigslist every day and see five to seven new want ads" for skilled machinists, Mr. Koszewski said.
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The Times said all the engineering staff who accepted the proposal will permanently leave Boeing Friday, along with roughly 6900,2628 machinists.
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"I have fought for the right to organize and bargain, fought for the middle-class," Clinton said at the Machinists event.
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A spokesman for the machinists union said it was not immediately clear what impact the change would have on its 31,000 members.
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Under the terms of the deal, the machinists union will help Uber lobby the State Legislature to treat all hired vehicles equally.
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While United's pilots, dispatchers and machinists have all reached new agreements with the company, the flight attendants have operated under separate contracts.
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"Our recommendation is to reject," Brian Bryant, general vice president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) told Reuters.
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On Sunday, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) also announced they would back Biden after a vote by members.
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Nor are we training enough machinists, welders and other skilled trade workers to build and maintain our ships, combat vehicles and aircraft.
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Mike Evans, the machinists' lead organizer in South Carolina, rejected that suggestion, saying the union believes it has the votes to prevail.
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Boeing also dwelled on the machinists' union's opposition to its 2009 decision to open a second Dreamliner assembly line in South Carolina.
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"The (platform's) language now is unacceptable," Hasan Solomon, the legislative director of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, told Reuters.
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Boeing invested $750 million to build the South Carolina factory after a costly machinists strike in 2008 that shut down production in Washington.
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"We have not been notified of these types of reduction numbers," said Jon Holden, president of the International Association of Machinists District 751.
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It was not immediately clear whether Triumph had alternative sites or workers it could call upon if the machinists put down their tools.
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She said her organization had been in talks with the Machinists about collaborating on a driver unionization campaign before the agreement with Uber.
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Since late fall, representatives of the machinists union, including Mr. Powell, have passed out leaflets at a busy intersection outside the fulfillment center.
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In the vast workroom, under a ceiling of swooping inverse domed skylights, 250 seamstresses, machinists, pattern cutters and managers produced each collection's clothes.
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In April, United reached an agreement with its 30,000 on-the-ground airport workers, represented by the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers.
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"The drivers need help, and they need help now," said James Conigliaro Jr., the founder of the guild and a senior Machinists official.
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Uber and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union jointly announced the formation of the association for New York City drivers today.
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The NLRB said 21 percent of the 4003,2400 workers who cast ballots voted against joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).
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Voting in recent days, union locals approved a four-year contract governing electrical workers, machinists, steelworkers, autoworkers, Teamsters and engineers, the two sides said.
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The company lives or dies by the skill of its machinists and by the stuff of process engineering — tolerances and measurements and paper trails.
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Boeing's machinists union, the touch labor that builds airplanes near Seattle, said about 1,575 workers had taken voluntary layoffs by the deadline in February.
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It's set in a world where an oppressive monarchy called the Protectorate is facing an entrenched revolution from a rebel group called the Machinists.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which is a member of the AFL-CIO, is trying to get certain Delta employees to unionize.
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Lawyers for the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, the International Associations of Machinists and United Steelworkers, who brought the case, could not be immediately reached ON Tuesday.
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The 105,353-square foot facility 20 miles from here is a fabrication site where Josh and his team have hired welders and fabricators and machinists.
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In the early 20th century, for instance, the spread of the assembly line created new jobs for line workers, engineers, machinists, financiers, and so on.
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The Machinists had successfully organized car service drivers in the past, and Desai said her group believed a similar path would work with Uber drivers.
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"We don't have a firewall now," said Tom Buffenbarger, a prior president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers who campaigned for Clinton.
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Pantoja is general vice president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and Wytkind is president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO.
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"Even machinists with average skills are able to produce 3D printed firearms," said Mitch Free, chairman & CEO of the 3803D printing company ZYCI CNC Machining.
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"China will just buy all their planes from Airbus," he said, leaning his chair back against a wall in the machinists' union hall in Auburn.
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So the USMCA doesn't satisfy everyone, and even some unions, such as the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, continue to oppose the deal.
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A vote to form the union would be a major victory for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which the workers would join.
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The AFL-CIO's member unions include the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and United Auto Workers.
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Across the country, employers are struggling to fill positions for machinists, radiology technicians and software developers—jobs that range from middle skill to high skill.
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For instance, machinists, in a shrinking occupation, earn a median hourly wage of $19.50, while home health care aides, in a growing occupation, earn $10.50.
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The president of the International Association of Machinists, like Green, sent a letter to Trump asking for help and, also like Green, received no answer.
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While this will be the first union at the South Carolina plant, the machinists' union said it represents about 35,000 Boeing employees in 24 locations nationwide.
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Boeing started hiring retired mechanics and inspectors on a temporary basis after reaching an agreement with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers on Aug.
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"We are recommending our members reject the contract and vote to strike," Jon Holden, president of the International Association of Machinists District 751, said on Friday.
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About 7873 members of the International Association of Machinists are voting on Monday on a contract offer and strike ballot, the company and the union said.
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The employees are part of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), and they're responsible for assembling, testing, and helping to launch ULA's rockets.
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It is a point she comes back to often, including this week when she addressed members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union.
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"Predictably, the major categories experiencing substantial declines are routine manual occupations, blue-collar workers, operators and assembly workers, and machinists and transport workers," write the authors.
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From there, we took a trip to the local machine shop where a gruff but friendly crew of machinists create the parts that make up Cassie.
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Tipping was one of the main asks of the Independent Drivers Guild, an affiliate of the Machinists Union, which represents 50,000 drivers in New York City.
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Meanwhile, in New York, Uber signed a deal with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union to create a unionlike association for its drivers.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is also trying to organize Delta flight attendants and ramp workers but they haven't yet held a vote.
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His ancestors and kin were sharecroppers, coal miners, machinists, millworkers — all low-paying, body-wearying occupations that over the years have vanished or offered diminished security.
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I'm here today, honored to serve as the leader of this incredible team — talented engineers, machinists, and all those who design, build, and support our products.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents Boeing's workers in Renton, still rents a billboard outside the Airbus plant, but that's about it.
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So the USMCA definitely doesn't satisfy everyone, and even some unions, such as the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, continue to oppose the deal.
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Formed through an arrangement between the International Association of Machinists, drivers, and Uber itself, the IDG are the only union-associated group recognized by the ridesharing platform.
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Such low regard for elected officials is absolutely tied to the complete disregard for ethics encouraged by party machinists like Reines and embodied by the current president.
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The union seeking to represent the workers—the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers—has recently circulated cards to YogaWorks instructors, gauging support for the union.
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In 2016, the Conference Board identified the risk of worker depletion in key occupations over the next several decades, including nurses, construction workers, machinists and mathematical scientists.
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About half the cuts, or 22.41,22.34 layoffs, were announced for the Canadian province of Quebec, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said in a statement.
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After Mr. Brennan's departure, President Ford appointed Bill Usery, a welder and machinist before becoming a top official in the International Association of Machinists, to be labor secretary.
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The company also emphasized that the cuts would include "hundreds of executives and managers," potentially in a bid to reassure machinists' unions that expressed dismay at the announcement.
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"I was made an honorary machinist some years ago, so I feel a particular connection here to my brothers and sisters in the machinists," she told the crowd.
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David Chartrand, Quebec coordinator for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said in the release that he is disappointed by the prospect of further legal action.
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The visit came two days after Boeing workers in the state rejected an attempt by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers to unionize the production line.
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"A serious and effective response to our growing trade deficit is long overdue," said Robert Martinez Jr., the president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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In New York City, an Uber drivers group affiliated with the machinists union said that more than one-fifth of its members earn less than $30,000 before expenses.
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On the other side, trade unions like the Machinists, the United Food and Commercial Workers, and the National Family Farm Coalition joined climate groups in opposing the agreement.
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In March Robert Martinez Jr., president of the International Association of Machinists, sent a letter to President Trump asking him to intervene and save Kansas City workers' jobs.
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Jim Conigliaro Jr, general counsel for Machinists Union District 15, said the agreement can help Uber drivers earn more money and work under better conditions in the short term.
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A U.S. Navy veteran, Martinez began his Machinists Union career in 1980 as a member of IAM Local 776A in Fort Worth, Texas and aircraft assembler at Lockheed Martin.
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With a worsening shortage of welders, machinists and other crafts workers, apprenticeship programs offer older skilled workers a less strenuous job opportunity: Teaching their craft to the next generation.
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"These are all voluntary, where people planned to retire or had other plans," said Connie Kelliher, a spokeswoman for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751.
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For decades, a loose network of machinists and tradesmen would supply collectors and museums with cast bearings, a one-off radiator cap or a custom-milled crank, as needed.
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These agreements, ratified by the United Steelworkers (USW) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers' Lodge, cover more than 1,000 employees in the Milwaukee-area and Tomahawk.
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The deal does little to address the outsourcing of jobs, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said Tuesday, a sentiment echoed by the United Automobile Workers union.
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In March Robert Martinez Jr., president of the International Association of Machinists (IAM), sent a letter to President Trump asking him to intervene and save Kansas City workers' jobs.
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"The South Carolina flight readiness technicians at Boeing have spoken loud and clear," Bob Martinez, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said in a statement Thursday.
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Did the unemployed Ohio machinists who pushed Trump's candidacy to victory really do so because they wanted regulatory relief for banks with between $50 billion and $250 billion in assets?
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The International Association of Machinists, United Steelworkers and AFL-CIO sued the state after the law went into effect saying that they were being forced to provide services without compensation.
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Approximately 22019,000 out of the nearly 35,000 employees of federal contractors represented by the Machinists Union lost wages or paid leave because of the recent government shutdown, including many veterans.
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"We thought it was a positive thing for the company to hire back people," said Jon Holden, president of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union District Lodge 2142.
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Boeing – Workers at the aerospace giant's South Carolina factory voted Thursday to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, after Boeing unsuccessfully challenged the vote the previous week.
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In a statement announcing that the machinists union was backing Biden after a vote of members, IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr. urged members to stay united after the primary.
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The guild, which is affiliated with a regional branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, hired Revolution Messaging, the company behind Mr. Sanders's digital campaign in 2016.
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Akeha leaves the Grand Monastery to join the Machinists, while Mokoya sets off on her own after the death of her daughter, hunting Naga, giant monsters that roam the world.
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How will we marshal an innovation call to arms, to recruit a new generation of computer scientists and designers, chemists and metallurgists, electrical engineers and machinists, pipe-fitters and welders?
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The announcement that the production line will continue is good news for thousands of Boeing employees — machinists, technical employees and supervisors — who work on the assembly line in Renton, Washington.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Triumph Group has contingency plans in case machinists strike at one of its aerospace factories that supplies parts to Boeing and other aircraft makers, the company said on Monday.
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Called Hyperloop One Metalworks, the 105,000 square-foot building in North Las Vegas will be the new professional home of many of the company's 170 employees, including engineers, machinists and welders.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) said the NLRB issued a decision finding the technicians an "appropriate bargaining unit" and has set an election date for May 31.
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The pension managers for the International Association of Machinists Motor City Pension Fund as well as the Alaska Ironworkers Pension Trust are both requesting permission from the Treasury to slash benefits.
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The Machinists Union continues to lead the fight for creating and saving American jobs that improve the standard of living for all Americans as well as workers from around the world.
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The Transport Workers Union of America and the International Association of Machinists were ordered to inform their workers to cease activities like refusing to work overtime and slowing their job performance.
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Owen Herrnstadt, of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, told the committee that tariffs on aerospace parts that failed to make Trump's list would be helpful to his industry.
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Clinton has continued to reach out to working-class voters, including holding a rally on Tuesday at a machinists and aerospace workers union hall at the Boeing factory in Everett, Wash.
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UFCW adds to a growing list of union endorsements for Biden, including the National Education Association, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and the International Association of Fire Fighters.
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In 2016, Uber announced an agreement with a regional branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers to create an organization for drivers in the New York City area.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers criticized the deal on Tuesday for doing too little to address the outsourcing of jobs, a sentiment echoed by the U.A.W. on Wednesday.
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The Times added the aviation company issued an earlier round of layoffs in March resulting in 245 involuntary layoffs, including 62 engineering staff and 111 machinists, taking place in mid-May.
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"He wanted to make as much money for shareholders at the expense of the workers," said Carlos DaCosta, the Canadian airline coordinator for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).
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The airline said it has offered its mechanics unions Transport Workers Union of America and the International Association of Machinists an industry-leading proposal in all key respects, including pay and benefits.
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The Machinists also agreed to refrain for five years from organizing strikes or unionizing drivers and said they would not push regulators to change the status of drivers from contractors to employees.
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The International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, which is currently collecting union cards with Delta ground workers and flight attendants in an attempt to unionize them, was unsurprisingly furious about the posters.
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To this end, Worcester was a leader in establishing trade schools to train mechanics and machinists, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the city's prestigious science and engineering school, was founded by local manufacturers.
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The Swedish home appliance company will consolidate its freezer production in South Carolina, where Joe Baratta, a representative for International Association of Machinists (IAM) Local 623, told me starting wages are lower.
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A small Minnesota precision machine company facing a thin pipeline of skilled machinists has invested in new equipment to reduce the physical strain on older workers so they can stick around longer.
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Mike Evans, the lead local organizer for the machinists' union, disputed that, saying the union had moved to hold the vote because it believed it had finally built sufficient support among workers.
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Union leaders said their members still support the tax breaks "as long as Boeing doesn't ship jobs out of state," said Larry Brown, legislative director for the International Association of Machinists, District 751.
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The factory's Austrian owner, Fischer Sports, pays employees the equivalent of about $23 a month on average — perhaps one-eighth the amount that skilled woodworkers and machinists might earn in Fischer's home country.
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Now, as international president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, I am honored to represent tens of thousands of working people in the aerospace and defense products and services industries.
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The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that 178 technicians at the Boeing facility, which produces the 787 Dreamliner jets in North Charleston, can vote to join the International Association of Machinists union.
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A machine shop supervisor was among the reductions, though it is unclear how many machinists reported to the supervisor and whether the shop fabricates automotive parts or smaller parts for electronics and sensors.
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This year, workers rejected a union by a nearly 3-to-1 margin at a Boeing plant in South Carolina after an organizing effort by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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But the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and United Auto Workers are among those who released statements following the deal's announcement expressing their disappointment.
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Uber has struck a five-year labor agreement with the New York arm of the International Association of Machinists that allows the union to represent the company's more than 35,000 drivers in the city.
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Union leaders belonging to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) and the United Steelworkers (USW) said they were concerned with the way Harley's management was handling staffing related to seasonal production.
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At the time, North Charleston mayor Keith Sumney, a Republican, made unsubstantiated claims to a local newspaper about a "yes" vote making it easier for the Machinists to preserve jobs in the Pacific Northwest.
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that 178 technicians at the Boeing facility, which produces the 787 Dreamliner jets in North Charleston, can vote to join the International Association of Machinists union.
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"This is Amazon's biggest fear," said Andy Powell, a district organizer for the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers who is trying to organize Amazon fulfillment center workers in Delaware and several nearby states.
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"These companies are taking tax breaks with one hand and handing out pink slips with the other," Robert Martinez Jr., the president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, told USA Today.
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This year, workers rejected a union by a nearly 3-to-1 margin at a Boeing plant in South Carolina after a long organizing effort by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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Nikki Haley, then South Carolina's governor and now the United States ambassador to the United Nations, portrayed the machinists' union as a group of meddling outsiders who had resisted Boeing's move to South Carolina.
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At the Hardee's along Highway 3, where tables of machinists, farmers and retirees sip 99-cent coffees each morning and hash out the day's news, many said they supported a harder line on immigration.
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In a world where factory machinists and truck drivers may be soon replaced by machines powered by artificial intelligence, will a new Kennedy speak out, loudly and from the gut, for these lost workers?
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Or that another black innovator, Elijah McCoy, the son of runaway slaves, had designed an industrial lubricating device so highly valued by machinists that the demand for it inspired the idiom "the real McCoy"?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber will join with the International Association of Machinists to launch an independent guild to represent drivers of the ride-hailing service in New York City, company officials said on Tuesday.
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The meeting, hosted by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was said to include representatives from the United Steelworkers, Machinists Union, and the Communications Workers of America, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting.
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MONTREAL, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Screening officers at two Toronto airports on Thursday rejected a three-year contract offer from employer Garda and authorized possible strike action, the International Association of Machinists said in a statement.
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That's given rise to the Machinists, who work to topple the government, all while bringing power to the people with the help of machines that take the place of Slackcraft and those who control it.
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"Demand is growing for middle-skill workers — machinists, technicians, health care practitioners and a broad range of other roles," Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said in a Politico op-ed in 2014.
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Organizers with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers failed to persuade a majority of about 20093,000 union-eligible Boeing workers in the state to vote for the union amid enormous pressure from management.
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The union vote came almost two years after the machinists called off a scheduled vote at Boeing's South Carolina facilities amid what they described as widespread misinformation from management and unrelenting pressure from local politicians.
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A rival group representing professional drivers criticized the Machinists for creating a so-called company union — federal law prohibits unions that companies fund or control, though the law applies only to workers who are employees.
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As part of a five-year labor agreement with Uber, the New York arm of the International Association of Machinists has been working to help independent drivers get their voices and concerns heard by Uber management.
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The American Hydrofluorocarbon Coalition, which filed the case, includes Amtrol Inc, Arkema Inc, Chemours Co, Honeywell International Inc, Hudson Technologies Inc, Mexichem Fluor Inc, Worthington Industries Inc and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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The engineers who design our airplanes, the machinists who work in our factories, and the many others who contribute to the extraordinarily complex work of building and maintaining commercial airplanes do so with pride and honor.
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We see glimpses of how that happens: the experimental and immoral programs that the Protectorate sets up to try and hold onto power, and the lengths that the Machinists will go to take on their enemies.
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Last year, the company reached a deal in which the regional branch of a union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, agreed to help the company persuade the Legislature to scale back the tax.
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There will be no immediate layoffs, Boeing said, but a local spokesperson for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers told Axios the union had no idea how workers would be redeployed during the shutdown.
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The spike in defense funding that Trump approved early in his presidency -- including billions for new tanks -- helped the Lima plant avoid closure, and hiring sped up for welders and machinists to produce the new vehicles.
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As the crowd of tank machinists, welders and other workers grew quiet, Trump accused McCain of going behind his back to alert the FBI of an unverified dossier containing information about Trump's purported ties to Russia.
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"His training as an adversary gave him the ability to understand the other party's position," William W. Winpisinger, a vice president of what is now the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said in 1976.
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Back in May, Uber agreed to let a new branch of the International Association of Machinists "represent" its drivers, but the new Independent Drivers Guild is more of labor-management relations board than an actual union.
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Boeing Co has accepted 1,880 voluntary layoffs from its union machinists and engineers in the Seattle area, the unions said on Thursday, part of the jet maker's drive to cut costs through job reductions and other measures.
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A walkout by the machinists at Triumph Composite Systems in Spokane, Washington, would affect fabrication of parts such as floor panels and ducting used in Boeing Co and Airbus planes, potentially affecting aircraft production, the union said.
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That's why, in New York City, we partnered with the Machinists Union to make sure current and future Uber NYC drivers have a stronger voice and launched a series of new tools and support policies for drivers.
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Uber has struck a five-year labor agreement with the New York arm of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers that allows the union to represent the company's more than 35,000 drivers in the city.
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Boeing said it was the third petition in less than three years filed by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) seeking to unionize workers at the plant located in a strongly anti-union state.
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Here, skilled machinists combine wobbly ribbons of carbon fiber and thin sheets of stiff titanium, stacking them like cake layers, and then heat-pressing, shaping and polishing them into finished slats for cross-country or downhill use.
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He and the board can count on the support of the airline's flight attendants, as well as its largest union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which both released statements on Tuesday backing Mr. Munoz.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The machinists union said on Wednesday it opposes a tentative labor contract reached this week with General Electric Co, potentially impeding the Boston-based conglomerate's efforts to avoid labor unrest during a difficult period.
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Unions representing workers in different parts of the aviation industry also made final pleas, with the head of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers asking Congress to "backstop" the airlines with direct aid for paychecks.
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Unions representing workers in different parts of the aviation industry also made final pleas, with the head of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers asking Congress to "backstop" the airlines with direct aid for paychecks.
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The machinists made a similar union push here nearly two years ago, but called off a vote a several days before the scheduled election, complaining of a deluge of misinformation from management and pressure from local politicians.
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An instructor at CorePower, the country's largest yoga studio chain with 200 locations in more than 903 states, previously advocated for starting a union there and earlier this year introduced some YogaWorks teachers to Machinists union officials.
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They also offer protections against outsourcing and a promise to bring more airport work in-house at Los Angeles and United's San Francisco hub, the airline and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) said.
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James Carlson, a coordinator with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers — the organization through which both the flight attendants and the ramp workers have been trying to unionize — told me the company's tactics are nothing new.
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Beginning with vinyl Peter Pan collars, oversized men's cardigans designed to be worn as dresses, and brightly hued knitwear, the one-woman show soon grew into a team of machinists as Quant opened more branches across the city.
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The operators—a different team from the machinists—inspect small dots on the bottoms of certain pages of the paper to make sure the colors are accurate and the printing and folding of the newspaper is aligned properly.
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The group, the Independent Drivers Guild, was formed roughly one year ago as part of an agreement for the New York City area between Uber and a regional branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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Skeptics like Rome Aloise, a Teamsters international vice president who has been working to organize Uber drivers in California, question the Machinists' approach of brokering a deal with Uber without first building a more formal organization of drivers.
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The 104-65 vote to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers comes one year after Boeing defeated a high-profile and much broader union drive in a state where the laws do not favor organized labor.
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NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - The machinists union said on Wednesday it opposes a tentative labor contract reached this week with General Electric Co, potentially impeding the Boston-based conglomerate's efforts to avoid labor unrest during a difficult period.
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Meanwhile, we have a shortage of skilled trade machinists and all sorts of other vocational training that we don't have any mechanisms to address and that culturally we've stigmatised so that no one wants to enter those fields anymore.
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In the first episode of State of Repair, we visited the Times to meet Zerafa, Greaney, and Chris Bedetto, who are part of a team of machinists that keeps the New York Times's eight three-story printing presses humming.
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Boeing said it was the third petition in less than three years filed by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), seeking to unionize workers at the plant that is located in a strongly anti-union state.
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About 2,850 employees at Boeing in North Charleston, South Carolina, would hold a secret-ballot union election to address issues including "subjective raises, inconsistent scheduling policies and a lack of respect on the shop floor," the machinists union said.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, one of the unions that backed Clinton early on in the 2016 nominating contest, is set to roll out a new endorsement process at its legislative conference in Washington next week.
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Dane County Judge William Foust decided in favor of International Association of Machinists, United Steelworkers and the AFL-CIO, which filed a lawsuit against the state, arguing the law passed in 2015 by Republican lawmakers violates the state constitution.
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We were living in San Francisco, and my mother and I spent weekends going to bars, informal marinas, places along the Carquinez Strait where people docked decrepit houseboats and where machinists would hang out close to the navy yard.
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CHICAGO, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), a union representing 7,852 workers at Southwest Airlines Co, said on Friday it was seeking federal mediation to help resolve the dispute over a new contract.
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The vote "demonstrates the power of corporate influence to overcome what is clearly the will of the people and the intent of the legislation," Jon Holden, president of the International Association of Machinists District 751, which represents about 31,000 Boeing workers.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - The union representing machinists at a Triumph Group Inc factory in Washington state has scheduled a strike vote for Monday and is recommending that its 400 members reject the aerospace supplier's latest contract offer and walk off the job.
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Much of the work at the submarine yards also requires a security clearance that many can't get, said Jimmy Hart, president of the Metal Trades Department at the AFL-CIO union, which represents 210,230 boilermakers, machinists, and pipefitters, among others.
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The Machinists' deal could make it difficult for other labor groups to take a harder line with Uber, unless drivers are united and clear in their demands, said Catherine Fisk, a labor law professor at the University of California Irvine.
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The vote came a day after the U.S. labor movement notched a major loss in South Carolina, the least unionized state, when workers at a Boeing Co plant voted not to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace workers.
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Regina Mitchell, a co-owner of Warren Fabricating & Machining in Hubbard, Ohio, told The New York Times this week that four out of 10 applicants otherwise qualified to be welders, machinists and crane operators will fail a routine drug test.
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Around the same time, Uber also signed an agreement with the International Association of Machinists that puts in place a series of protections for Uber drivers in New York City, where most choose to work 35 hours or more a week.
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In 2014, the machinists union helped organize a union vote by a small number of technicians and mechanics who worked on order-fulfillment equipment at the fulfillment center in Middletown, a community of about 19,000 about a half-hour from Wilmington.
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The National Labor Relations Board said last week that 178 Boeing flight-line readiness technicians and technician inspectors could lawfully take a vote on whether to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and set the election for Thursday.
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PDVSA's maritime arm, PDV Marina, lacks about 160 people, including captains, machinists and operators, to immediately take back the 10 vessels from Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement (BSM), according to a notification by PDV Marina's security department that was viewed by Reuters.
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In a letter sent Monday to the 14 lawmakers who pushed Pelosi for a vote, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers President Robert Martinez Jr. said the deal does not currently go far enough to stop outsourcing to Mexico.
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The English actress Gemma Arterton, who was presenting an award, was accompanied on the red carpet by Eileen Pullen and Gwen Davis, former sewing machinists who staged a 1968 strike over pay disparity at a Ford plant in Dagenham, England.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers on Monday said in a letter to Congress that more than 500,000 U.S. aerospace production jobs could be in jeopardy and called for a relief package that included provisions to protect against layoffs.
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"New York City's for-hire vehicle drivers have seen their earnings plummet amid this pandemic," said Brendan Sexton, the executive director of the Independent Drivers Guild, a Machinists Union affiliate representing the city's tens of thousands of ride-hail drivers.
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"Harley-Davidson's announcement today is the latest slap in the face to the loyal, highly skilled work force that made Harley an iconic American brand," said Robert Martinez Jr., the international president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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The Machinists agreed to refrain from challenging Uber's position that drivers are contractors rather than employees, a top priority for organized labor, for the duration of their five-year agreement, though drivers are free to challenge their status on their own.
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They have had constructive meetings with officials from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said Sohail Rana, 49, an Uber driver who volunteers with the Independent Drivers Guild, an affiliate of the Machinists Union.
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In 2016, Uber reached a five-year agreement with a regional branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers to create a drivers' guild, which would advocate on behalf of drivers but not challenge their status as independent contractors.
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"We like that he does not support TPP, that he has taken the position that there should be trade tariffs for a company that moves jobs overseas," said Ryan Leenders, 30, a member of the International Association of Machinists in Washington State.
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Administrative Law Judge Charles Muhl in Washington, D.C. on Friday ordered Metalcraft of Mayville Inc to resume checking off and transferring dues to an International Association of Machinists affiliate and make the union whole for any "dues-checkoff" payments that the company missed.
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Panzica, a former director of quality and engineering at Foxconn, recalled an incident around four or five years ago in which Foxconn managed to send 1,000 machinists more than 1,000 miles across China in just a few days without negatively impacting business.
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Last month, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) filed for an election to represent roughly 3,000 workers at Boeing South Carolina, a sprawling complex that has churned out more than 7787 state-of-the-art 787 Dreamliner jets since it opened in 2011.
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The Machinists are well familiar with it: The union originally filed for an election at Boeing in March 2015, but eventually withdrew its petition just days before the vote, decrying what it called "political interference" and "misinformation" on the part of elected officials.
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The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has filed a lawsuit claiming the National Labor Relations Board overstepped its authority when it reversed the union's victory in an election to represent a group of Boeing Inc mechanics in South Carolina.
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When they arrived for a visit on a recent gray spring morning, the seamstresses and machinists, dressed in white lab coats, looked up from their work in the glass-walled room to greet them with big smiles and a flurry of bonjours.
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At the time, the union argued that opening the plant would undermine the protected right to strike of tens of thousands of Boeing workers in Washington State, and the machinists filed a charge against the company with the National Labor Relations Board.
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Under a five-year agreement, the Independent Drivers' Guild, which will be a branch of the Machinists Union, will aim to protect the current 35,000 drivers and any future drivers who work for Uber in the city, the guild said in a statement.
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"If we're talking about growing wages, providing health care to all people, having a progressive tax system, the trade union movement must be in the middle of all of those discussions," Sanders said at a speech to the International Association of Machinists in April.
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While Akeha falls in with rebels known as The Machinists, Mokoya has been broken by the loss of her daughter, and embarks on her own journey, drawn into a conspiracy that forces her to contend with her gifts and what she has to lose.
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She also challenged entrenched sexism, which manifested itself with wide-ranging effect, from barriers that kept women from the higher ranks of labor unions to the regular publication of cheesecake "Miss Union Maid" photographs in the International Association of Machinists newspaper until the mid-1970s.
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Pottstown, whose retired and laid-off steelworkers, machinists and tool and die makers have deep roots in the Democratic Party, is just the kind of place where Trump hopes his plan to "Make America Great Again" will resonate and move voters to the Republican column.
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As governor in 2015, Haley was a key opponent of a campaign by Boeing's largest labor union to form a collective bargaining unit at its 787 Dreamliner factory in South Carolina - though the machinists were later successful in forming a small bargaining unit there.
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The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a group representing professional drivers that held discussions with the Machinists on how to help Uber drivers, has filed an unfair-labor-practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board accusing Uber of helping to create a company union.
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A group closely tied to the South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance, of which Boeing is a member, ran a series of hard-edge ads opposing the union organizing effort, including one depicting the machinists as a casino boss who wanted workers to gamble away their future.
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The bill was endorsed by liberal advocacy groups like Physicians for a National Health Program, Social Security Works and Public Citizen, as well as by labor unions, including National Nurses United, the American Federation of Teachers and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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Sales of her Dina black skinny jeans rocketed so high, the small firm (whose aim is to make their small Welsh town of Cardigan famous for jean-making again) were able to employ several new machinists and even moved into a new bigger factory as a result.
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American Airlines has been locked in a contentious battle this summer over stalled contract negotiations with the union representing its mechanics, the TWU-IAM Association — which is formed of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM).
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The board in a 3-1 decision overturned the results of a 2018 election in which mechanics at the North Charleston plant voted to join the International Association of Machinists, saying the workers were assigned to different departments, had different supervisors and performed varying job duties.
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The Machinists said they had been in contact with Uber drivers for years before creating the guild by virtue of their work on behalf of the city's for-hire drivers, some of whom began driving for Uber shortly after the service arrived in New York in 2011.
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A three-member board panel on Wednesday said PCC Structurals Inc had not offered any new arguments to defend its refusal to bargain with an International Association of Machinists local, after the NLRB last year said the welders shared enough in common to form their own unit.
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But earlier this month, in another deal that may well be far more significant, Uber recognized a new worker association called the Independent Drivers Guild, recently formed by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the New York labor union representing black car drivers in New York.
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Over the course of two days at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) legislative conference, seven contenders recalled personal ties to organized labor, railed against international trade agreements and decried right-to-work laws that they said had gutted organized labor protections across the country.
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Most fundamentally it tells the story of Anna Kerrigan, a young woman who works during the war at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women have been allowed to hold jobs (welders, lathe operators, machinists) that had belonged only to men before many of them went off to fight.
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Supporters, like the Machinists' Union affiliate Independent Drivers Guild (IDG), which represents more than 70,000 app-based drivers in New York City, argue additional costs are worth it to give drivers in the city a living wage in New York City, where rents are increasing twice as fast as wages.
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"The fact is that Trump has had the opportunity to bring jobs to American, and he's chosen to outsource them," said Larry Brown, legislative and political director for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751, which represents about 32,000 workers in the state, mostly at Boeing.
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With the more open and intentional database of gun files that Defcad represents, Wilson believes he can create a collection of files that's both more comprehensive and more refined, with higher accuracy, more detailed models for every component, giving machinists all the data they need to make or remix them.
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"The fact is that Trump has had the opportunity to bring jobs to Americans, and he's chosen to outsource them," said Larry Brown, legislative and political director for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District Lodge 751, which represents about 32,000 workers in the state, mostly at Boeing.
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I couldn't have asked for a better pilot than "The Machinists"—three old school New Yorkers who got along great, all access to an intensely visual and impressive printing plant, a camera crew who could take advantage of it, and a good story about the people who are keeping print alive.
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A three-member NLRB panel on Friday rejected Harley-Davidson's claim that the company could offer buyouts over the objections of an International Association of Machinists local that represented its workers because the union had waived its right to bargain over a simultaneous round of layoffs at the York, Pennsylvania factory.
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With the crippling recession of the early '90s an ever-present source of stress for Boeing managers back then, the company nevertheless marshaled $5 billion and 10,000 employees—20083,000 engineers and 5,000 machinists, split into a few dozen "design-build" teams inspired by Japanese manufacturing practices—to develop the 777.
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At twin Dreamliner factories in South Carolina and Washington state, Boeing also plans to soon deploy Bluetooth-enabled 'smart' wrenches that signal if machinists apply the correct torque to a nut, and has introduced new self-driving work platforms to shave time off aircraft assembly, according to people familiar with the technologies.
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Last May, a group of Boeing workers at a South Carolina facility successfully voted in favor of unionizing with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers—a move the company called "the death knell for manufacturing facilities like Boeing South Carolina," and quickly moved to challenge on the basis of its legality.
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James Carlson, assistant airline coordinator for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the union that is campaigning to represent Delta's ramp service employees and flight attendants, said on Friday that the fliers were placed in stands in employee break rooms that are often used to distribute written materials from the company.
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Many analysts say that Boeing decided to put its second Dreamliner aircraft assembly line in the state to reduce the leverage of the machinists' union, which represents Boeing's work force in the Puget Sound region of Washington State and has used work stoppages to exact concessions from the company in the past.
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The association, which will be known as the Independent Drivers Guild and will be affiliated with a regional branch of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union, is the first of its kind that Uber has officially blessed, although Uber drivers have formed a number of unsanctioned groups in cities across the country.
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Word of the story got to the machinists union, which found an obituary in The Ithaca Journal in New York on April 20, 2006, that said Mr. Wadach's father, Peter Dana Wadach, had died while jogging on a family vacation in South Carolina — not in front of the family home, as Mr. Wadach had said.
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"Part of my job is being moved to York, but the other part is going to Bangkok," Richard Pence, a machinist at the Kansas City plant, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in May while in Washington for a meeting between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and members of the Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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In that arena, the issue appears not to be the number of women employed but instead the historical lack of them, as Frye explains: Because many manufacturing jobs—such as machinists and craft workers—have long been male-dominated, women who enter the field may lack power or be seen as outsiders, thus making them targets for harassment.
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"We continue to have concerns about work that has been moved outside of Washington State, which is why we focused so much energy on trying to get job number guarantees for the $20133 billion in aerospace tax incentives that our citizens are paying," John Holden, District 751 president of the International Association of Machinists, said in a statement.
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"We're happy to announce that we've successfully come to agreement with Uber to represent the 35,000 drivers using Uber in New York City to enhance their earning ability and benefits," said James Conigliaro Jr., the guild founder and assistant director and general counsel at the International Association of Machinists District 15, which represents workers in the Northeast.
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Uber will continue to determine most of these elements unilaterally, albeit with more input from drivers The machinists union has also indicated that for the duration of the five-year agreement, it will refrain from trying to unionize drivers, from encouraging them to strike and from waging campaigns to have them recognized as employees rather than independent contractors.
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"We have a long history here in Canada of being in the shadow of the United States — whatever they do we follow — but this time both the provincial and federal governments didn't back down," said David Chartrand, a former Bombardier assembly line worker who is now the Quebec coordinator for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
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Alan GraysonAlan Mark GraysonFlorida's Darren Soto fends off Dem challenge from Alan Grayson Live results: Arizona and Florida hold primaries The Hill's Morning Report: Frustration mounts as Republicans blow up tax message MORE (D-Fla.), has already scored a number of union endorsements from the Florida Teamsters and the AFSCME and from unions representing machinists, carpenters and ironworkers.
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The District Court ordered the two unions, the Transport Workers Union of America and the International Association of Machinists, to issue a notice to their workers to no longer continue activities such as refusing to work overtime, slowing their job performance or other activities that would negatively affect American's operations, according to the court filing on Friday.
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"It could be as farfetched as my dad told me unions are bad, to something like, I watch The Sopranos, or now The Deuce, and all union members are crooks and trying to defraud their employer," said Don Barker, organizing director of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), a union with nearly 700,000 members throughout North America.
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"Part of my job is being moved to York, but the other part is going to Bangkok," Richard Pence, a machinist at the Kansas City plant, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel earlier this month when in Washington as part of a meeting between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and members of the Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents about 2200 percent of the Harley-Davidson workers being laid off.
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Some disputes escalated so intensely that the federal government got involved: President Lyndon Johnson helped negotiate a 1966 machinists' strike that lasted for 43 days in the summer; President Bill Clinton halted a 1997 American Airlines pilots strike that had major implications for national air travel; more recently in 2011, the Canadian government intervened in an Air Canada strike, ordering airport agents back to work before an agreement was reached.
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Others are: • Carolyn Corvi, a former Boeing executive; • Jane Garvey, head of Meridiam, North America, an infrastructure development fund; • Barney Harford, a former executive at Orbitz Worldwide, an online travel company; • Todd M. Insler, master executive council chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association; • James A. C. Kennedy, former chief executive of T. Rowe Price group, the mutual fund company; • Robert A. Milton, former head of Air Canada's holding company; • Oscar Munoz, United's current chief executive (who will not be promoted to chairman as a result of the passenger-dragging episode); • William R. Nuti, chief executive of NCR Corporation, the A.T.M. manufacturer; • Sito Pantoja, general vice president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Transportation Department; • Edward M. Philip, chief operating officer of Partners in Health, a nonprofit health care entity; • Edward L. Shapiro, retired managing partner of PAR, an investment management firm; • Laurence E. Simmons, chairman of SCF Partners, a private equity firm; • David J. Vitale, chairman of the Urban Partnership Bank; and • James M. Whitehurst, chief executive of Red Hat Inc.
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