IAM Stepping Up campaign

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wasn't she on Tim slate for this current campaign?

 

[700UW]

Southwind, how truly stupid are you? The election was rerun because some locals didn't notify their members in a timely fashion and the IAM agreed too, voluntarily.

And the incumbents crushed them

I will post it when I get home

So far you are 0 for 2!

 

[700UW]

wasn't she on Tim slate for this current campaign?

Karen ran for GVP of Transportation, she is Jay Cronk's GF, she lost, just like she has lost when she ran for AGC at 141.

 

[700UW]

On August 15, 2013, the Department entered into a voluntary compliance agreement with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), located in Upper Marlboro, Md., concerning the 2013 election of international officers.  The IAM agreed to conduct new nominations and a new election, if necessary, for the offices of international president, general secretary-treasurer and eight general vice presidents under OLMS supervision prior to June 2014.  The investigation disclosed that the union failed to provide notice of nomination to the membership regarding the nomination of international officers, local lodges did not provide notice of their nomination meetings to all members, and members were denied a reasonable opportunity to nominate candidates when some members were working at the time of the nomination meeting and/or endorsement vote and no alternative method of nomination was provided.  The agreement follows an investigation by the OLMS Washington District Office.
 

 

[700UW]

http://www.thedriveisalive.com/

 

[700UW]

 

[robbedagain]

thanks 700

 

[southwind]

"comIAM&AW’s Private Jet makes the news… again!Page 4www.19MACHINISTS.comEmployees File Federal Class Action Suit to Halt Abusive Mandatory Union Dues SchemeAberdeen, Maryland (September 21, 2009) – Today, two employees filed a class action federal suit challenging the International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers (IAM) union’s nationwide policy requiring employees to object year after year to paying union dues they cannot be lawfully forced to pay.With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, Jacobs Technology Incorporated employees Rick Gor-ham and Robert Negosta are challenging the IAM union officials’ scheme intended to thwart non-union members’ legal rights to refrain from paying union dues for union electioneering and other non-bargaining activities. Foundation attor-neys filed the complaint in Maryland’s U.S. District Court on behalf of the two employees and all of Jacobs Technology’s other similarly-situated employees.In the Foundation-won Communication Workers of America v. Beck (1988), the U.S. Supreme Court held that union offi-cials can lawfully compel nonmembers to pay union dues as a job condition, but not the part of dues spent for non-bargaining activities like political activ-ism, lobbying, and member-only events. However, these limited rights have been difficult to enforce, as union officials often concoct illegal schemes such as these “annual objection” poli-cies to burden or thwart employees from exercising their rights.While the IAM union hierarchy’s annual objection policy should not apply to employees who have refrained from IAM union membership, IAM union offi-cials still illegally require nonmember employees nationwide to file formal objections every year. Additionally, IAM union bosses regularly change the dates for the annual thirty-day window period ostensibly to create additional confusion.Foundation attorneys won a similar case challenging the IAM’s annual objection policy under the Railway Labor Act in a U.S. District Court in Virginia. The court forced the union to abandon the policy, but the union lawyers are trying to keep the policy in force in all workplaces not governed by that statute. Foundation attorneys are now challenging the policy that applies to employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).“These workers are taking a courageous stand against funding the Machinist union bosses’ radical political agenda and fat-cat lifestyles,” said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation. “No worker should be compelled to hand over their hard earned dollars so that IAM union bosses can play politics or take vacations with the union’s $2 million private jet.”
 
http://anotherviewoftheiam.blogspot.com/

 

[southwind]

IAM EXPOSED!
 
 
Private Jet, Las Vegas meetings, Ruth's Chris Steakhouse and consultant fees are all paid with IAM Union member dues.  IAM is known for its over the top expenditures on the backs of its hard working members.  Union dues would be better spent fighting furloughs, cut backs and reductions in pay and pension.
Over 2 million on consultants!
$35,000 on steak houses and meetings at Las Vegas prestigious Bally's and Caesar Palace Casinos!
IAM's private Lear jet cost over 12 million new and more than 1.5 million a year to operate and maintain!
 
Sweeeet ride!

 

[southwind]

What? Fraud at the IAM....say it isn't so. That's only suppose to happen to company's!
 
"The IAM agreed to hold the elections again after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor found problems with the nominating process that effectively discouraged competition."
 
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20140102/BIZ/701029936

 

[WorldTraveler]

are we honestly supposed to believe that an online survey based on :

15 employee salaries

is supposed to be more accurate than DOT data that is based on standardized data representing ALL employees across all airlines?

To use your own strategies: How could ANYONE be SO STUPID as to not be able to read right on the website:

15 employee salaries

and not know that an internet poll isn't going to be close to accurate?

It is truly breathtaking when you see the depths and lengths 700 will go to do deny information which clearly shows how well DL employees do and that they don't need the IAM.

The reason why my points might look like someone else's is because it is FACT and not some internet chatboard rumor that portrays the story 700 wants to hear.



DL employees know better, know the truth, and they have consistently voted to have no further unions.



Doesn't really matter if it is a local or a national that did wrong. It was a union. And DL employees don't have to worry with those kind of problems.

And they still get superior pay and benefits.




700, you have absolutely no idea how much you destroy your own credibility by calling everyone who disagrees with you a liar or stupid.

I've come to the conclusion that you really aren't a representative for the IAM because no organization would be stupid enough to allow you to represent them.

BTW, Kev,

I'm not finding any evidence that DL's meteorologists are unionized. Did I miss it? What groups besides pilots and dispatchers are unionized?

 

[Kev3188]

What groups besides pilots and dispatchers are unionized?

None yet...

What gave you the idea that others might be?

 

[Kev3188]

are we honestly supposed to believe that an online survey based on :

15 employee salaries

is supposed to be more accurate than DOT data that is based on standardized data representing ALL employees across all airlines?

To use your own strategies: How could ANYONE be SO STUPID as to not be able to read right on the website:

15 employee salaries

I have more than 15 people in my station making poverty wages. They don't need to "believe" a survey; it's their reality every 2 weeks...

 

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that's the truth

 

[WorldTraveler]

None yet...

What gave you the idea that others might be?

 
because I honestly thought labor gained one small victory at DL post merger.

apparently, I was wrong? or were the dispatchers non-union before?

 

I have more than 15 people in my station making poverty wages. They don't need to "believe" a survey; it's their reality every 2 weeks...

plz.

I'm betting they are indentured and DL won't let them leave to find anything better, right?

or maybe DL is paying the best they can find?

or maybe the market for jobs that pay a lot more than they make is just not as good as they thought?


I'm sure you are also aware that economists all agree (cuz it's based on data) that the job market is not creating high paying, middle class full-time jobs - largely due to government's own policies.

Also doesn't change that DOT data is standardized and represents ALL employees at an airline and shows that DL's airport employees - which includes AW, BW, and cargo - make more money than US employees and isn't based on some internet survey that 15 people participated in.

Also doesn't change 700 that absolutely goes nuts if any type of industry standard data shows that the claims he purports aren't the truth.

In this case, the notion that the IAM can secure better wages for DL employees is a flat out lie - to use his own terms.