IAM General Counsel Carla M. Siegel explains the National Labor Relations Board, also known as the NLRB. Siegel also discusses the board’s history, why it’s unique to labor, who it exclusively covers and how it impacts collective bargaining efforts in the U.S. The post Understanding the NLRB appeared first on IAMAW.
Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Study: Prevailing Wage Repeal Shrinks Pay, Increases Dangers and Leads to More Workers on Public Assistance Working people across the United States have stepped up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our regular Service + Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories […]
IAM District 751 President and Directing Business Representative Jon Holden was recently appointed to a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) panel to review Boeing’s safety management processes. The 24-member panel was required by Congress under a 2020 law to reform how the FAA certifies new airplanes. READ: U.S. FAA names experts to review Boeing safety culture after fatal crashes Reuters The appointment comes days after Congress recently reached an […]
IAM members from across the country gathered in Washington, DC, for the AFL-CIO’s Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference to listen and learn about critical issues affecting the labor movement and minorities. The conference workshops and plenary sessions focused on the labor movement’s key priorities: youth organizing, civil rights, racial and economic […]
Today marks the anniversary of Executive Order 10988 granting federal employees the right to collectively bargaining. On January 17, 1962, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988, “Employee-Management Cooperation in the Federal Sector” giving federal employees a limited right to unionize and bargain with their employer agencies. This executive order led to greater equality […]