Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Strike Benefits for Local Lodge 15

Please follow this link to the Local Lodge 15 Blog for more information
http://iamawll15.blogspot.com/

Sunday, September 3, 2017

IAM local lodge 15 rejects contract, Again

A second pass at ratifying a contract with Wyman-Gordon was rejected, back to the picket lines. Contact your committee member to help with the picket duties.

Local 15, Don't forget to vote today

Don't forget to vote today

The vote will take place at the VFW CYPRESS POST 8905. 21902 Northwest Frwy Cypress, TX  77429 (where we have Union Meetings) Sunday September 3, 2017 from 2pm until 6pm.

Saturday, September 2, 2017

Local Lodge 15 Voting on latest offering from Wyman-Gordon

Go to the link below to see all the information regarding the member vote this Sunday September 3rd, 2017

http://iamawll15.blogspot.com/

Monday, August 21, 2017

Local Lodge 15 ON STRIKE!!!

For all the latest information regarding the Strike, check with the internationals IMAIL, www.GOIAM.org, and the Local Lodge site http://iamawll15.blogspot.com/

Monday, August 14, 2017

Local Lodge 15 Contract Negotiations Status Letter

August 14, 2017
News Letter #1
IAM&AW
Your Negotiating Team


Brothers and Sisters:

Subject: IAM&AW/WYMAN GORDON UPDATE

Your elected contract negotiating team, Tim Stutts, Abel Nuncio, Marcus Grimes, Darrell Bonney District Lodge 37 Rep Byron Williams and your chief negotiator, Grand Lodge Representatives Brother James Parker, met for negotiations with Wyman Gordon. The Union and Company have exchanged and discussed several issues and proposals. The parties have discussed several issues relating to Non-Economic and Economic issues. Your negotiating team has heard your concerns regarding the issues that are important to the membership “Those Issues such as job security, outsourcing, benefits, and wages”.  The parties are continuing to exchange ideals related to proposals in an effort of reaching resolution to the issues you brought forward in the membership surveys, meetings, and with your negotiating team members.

We have reviewed your surveys and furthermore your comments from the surveys. As anticipated, the top issues were established and have been formulated into contract proposals. We are asking for our members support throughout these negotiations. Please remember, if we have not addressed the issues here, they are rumors.

Some of the proposals brought forth by the company is to reduce short-term disability benefits from 70% to 55% of employee’s salary. In addition, employees on short-term (6months) and long-term disability (6months) for a total of one year, then be terminated from the company. The Company wants to implement a change from 20 minute to 15 minute breaks during the overtime period. Temporary assignment proposals are still being exchanged. The company is also holding to not allowing employees who attend funeral such as a (friend), receive premium pay for 6th and 7th. Day. 
The company presented a wage scale with a much-reduced starting range of ($7.50) Lg6, to Labor grade 16 ($14.00) with no salary increases for the 3yr contract. For any current employees in addition to any employees hired or re-called after ratifications. We will continue exchanging proposals throughout the week and will update the membership as the negotiations continue.

Please check your District Lodge No. 37 web site and link to your Local Lodge 15 link, for future updates. Additionally, further updates will be forthcoming as negotiations move forward.



Your Negotiating Committee




Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Lobstermen Moving up with the commerce

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Monday, June 5, 2017

District 37 Election Notice

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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Texas Regional Press Clips



Southern Region
Like the FaceBook Page- Boeing Workers at South Carolina – BSC https://www.facebook.com/boeingworkers/

Forbes
By Ted Reed
February 1, 2017
South Carolina may be the least unionized state in the union, but its most prominent labor leader – and it does have a few – says Boeing workers in Charleston are ready to join the International Association of Machinists.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gives testimony on "Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America" at the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Seattle Times
By Dominic Gates
February 1, 2017
Boeing is taking the gloves off to fight the Machinists union with everything it’s got.
 
IAM News
February 1, 2017
Washington, DC – Robert Martinez, Jr., International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), made the following statement about the introduction of national right-to-work legislation:
 “So-called right-to-work has done enough harm to working people in the states where it is law. Forcing it upon every state in the country would be a national disaster.
 
Texas


Edinburgh Politics

By DAVID A. DƍAZ

February 1, 2017

On Thursday, January 12, 2017, in the Speaker’s Committee Room at the Texas Capitol, the Texas AFL-CIO, led by its president, John Patrick and who was joined by other key lawmakers, hosted a news conference on raising the minimum wage in Texas.

 


KGNS

By Yocelin Gallardo

February 1, 2017

Union supporters and business advocates clash over the use of payroll deductions to collect union dues, as two bills look to do away with payroll deduction.

DeLane Adams
AFL-CIO Field Communications
Southern Region
Cell: 404-402-9764
Twitter: @delane392

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Texas Regional Press Clips


Southern Region

Like the FaceBook Page- Boeing Workers at South Carolina – BSC https://www.facebook.com/boeingworkers/

 


Georgia AFL-CIO is providing help to people who have been affected by the devastating storms that hit the Albany area. We are working with some area churches, State Representative Winfred Dukes and the United Way of Southwest Georgia. We are asking for your assistance so that we can provide as much as we can to as many as we can. Your donations can be dropped off on the first floor of the IBEW Local 613 Building (501 Pulliam Street SW, Atlanta, GA 30312) by 5:00 PM on 2/2/17.

 


On Labor

By Hannah Belitz

January 31, 2017

The following provides an overview of Judge Gorsuch’s opinions in cases involving the NLRB and employment discrimination.

 


Littler

By ILYSE SCHUMAN AND MICHAEL J. LOTITO

January 31, 2017

On the whole, Judge Gorsuch’s written opinions on labor and employment issues do not appear to contain any unpleasant surprises for employers. His opinions—which, by and large, are clear and easy to read—have not expressed any new interpretations of existing law that would disadvantage employers.

 


Washington Post

By Drew Harwell and Jonathan O'Connell

January 31, 2017

About 40 housekeepers and guest-room workers at the Trump International Hotel Washington voted last week to join Unite Here Local 25, a chapter that represents 6,500 hospitality workers across the Washington area, a union executive said.


Texas


Corsicana Daily Sun

By John Austin

January 31, 2017

Following a call for ethics reform, Abbott urged lawmakers to end the practice of automatic deduction of union dues from the paychecks of government workers, saying “taxpayer money shouldn’t be used to support the collection of union dues.”

 

Rick Levy, secretary-treasurer of the Texas AFL-CIO, said he’d rather have heard Abbott talking about issues that families discuss around the dinner table.

 

“He seemed to throw a bone to those who are on an ideological crusade,” Levy said. “It was misguided.”

DeLane Adams
AFL-CIO Field Communications
Southern Region
Cell: 404-402-9764
Twitter: @delane392

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Texas Regional Press Clips


Southern Region


Huffington Post

By Dave Jamieson and Sam Stein

January 25, 2017

Sean McGarvey joined other labor union leaders Monday in a visit with President Donald Trump at his new digs in the White House. As head of North America’s Building Trades Unions, McGarvey wasn’t accustomed to such meetings, least of all during a president’s first full weekday in office. Neither he nor his predecessor had ever received such an invitation from President Barack Obama.

 


Bloomberg

By Lauren Etter and Shannon Pettypiece

January 26, 2017

President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall faces many obstacles. One of the tallest: building it without undocumented workers.

 


PayDay Report

By Mike Elk

January 25, 2017

Today, the Trump Administration announced a series of moves designed to crack down on undocumented workers living in the country, promising in immigration-related executive orders to target and deport immigrants who have entered the United States illegally and foreign guestworkers that overstay their work visas.

Texas


Yahoo

By Staff

January 25, 2017

Mr. Corgey is a trustee for the Seafarers Pension Plan, Seafarers Health and Benefits Plan, Joint Employment Fund, Training/Safety Fund and Transportation Institute. He serves as a vice president of the Texas AFL-CIO; as secretary-treasurer of the West Gulf Ports Council of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department; and on the executive board of the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. He is a member of the National Defense Transportation Association, American Maritime Partnership and the Navy League of the United States. He is a past member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Area Maritime Security Committee for the Port of Houston/Galveston and served as chairman of the City of Houston Ethics Committee. He served on the U.S. Coast Guard Towing Safety Advisory Committee and the board of the Houston Maritime Association. Mr. Corgey is also active in other civic and humanitarian pursuits.

DeLane Adams
AFL-CIO Field Communications
Southern Region
Cell: 404-402-9764
Twitter: @delane392

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Texas Regional Press Clips 1/25/2017


 


CNN Money

By Aaron Smith

January 24, 2017

Kroger says it plans to hire 10,000 workers.

 


AL.com

By Associated Press

January 24, 2017

These are a handful of examples from across the U.S. of mostly male public officials who have been reprimanded, called out or disciplined over social media postings about the women's marches around the globe last weekend.

 


NBC News

By Ben Popken

January 24, 2017

Build, baby, build.

 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! ON MARCH 4th PLEASE JOIN THE MARCH ON MISSISSIPPI! March 4, 2017 @ 1pm in Canton, Mississippi (Canton Multipurpose Sportsplex). Help us fight for the rights of Nissan Workers and all Workers in Mississippi to vote freely for Union representation without intimidation by their employers. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: (601) 859-2931

 

Texas


Dallas Morning News

By Dagney Pruner

January 23, 2017

Texas taxpayers are footing the bill to support welfare programs for thousands of state workers and their children, a union representing the employees said Monday, urging lawmakers to raise wages.

DeLane Adams
AFL-CIO Field Communications
Southern Region
Cell: 404-402-9764
Twitter: @delane392

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Texas Regional Press Clips 1/24/2017


Southern Region


USA TODAY

By Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO

January 24, 2017

On Monday, the United States withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. President Trump may have signed the TPP’s death certificate, but it was working people and our progressive allies who killed this unfair agreement. For years, we have mobilized and organized in opposition to the TPP, winning the debate in Congress and on the campaign trail.

 


WASHINGTON POST

By Danielle Paquette

January 23, 2017

Amid tension with the organized labor community, President Trump met with a dozen union leaders and members Monday afternoon at the White House for a “listening session” about American jobs.

 


Federal Times

By Carten Cordell

January 23, 2017

Many anticipated that President Trump would keep to his campaign promise of instituting a hiring freeze for the federal government.

 


The Hill

By Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO

January 24, 2017

Much has been made of President Trump’s sweeping comments and random tweets. But now that he’s been officially sworn in, the consequences for American workers are much more tangible.

 


Los Angeles Times

By Richard Trumka, president, AFL-CIO

January 24, 2017

“We appreciate that Donald Trump laid it in its grave,” said Thea Lee, deputy chief of staff at the AFL-CIO, referring to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “But that’s only a first and small step.”

 

While there are signs of more aggressive trade actions on the part of Trump, Lee said it wasn’t clear how Trump’s approach — one of his popular refrains is “buy American” — would manifest itself in actual trade policies.

 

“The incoming administration has a narrower vision of America first,” she said. “It could be negotiated and be worse for working people.”

 

 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! ON MARCH 4th PLEASE JOIN THE MARCH ON MISSISSIPPI! March 4, 2017 @ 1pm in Canton, Mississippi (Canton Multipurpose Sportsplex). Help us fight for the rights of Nissan Workers and all Workers in Mississippi to vote freely for Union representation without intimidation by their employers. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: (601) 859-2931
 

Texas


Houston Chronicle

By L.M. Sixel

January 20, 2017

"It is completely unfair," said Rick Levy, secretary of the Texas AFL-CIO.

 

Over the past few years, NFL players and their union have tried to fend off efforts by the league to reduce workers' compensation benefits. In California in 2013, the National Football League led a successful lobbying effort to bar professional athletes from filing workers' compensation claims in California if they spent most of their careers outside the state.

DeLane Adams
AFL-CIO Field Communications
Southern Region
Cell: 404-402-9764
Twitter: @delane392

Monday, January 23, 2017

Texas Regional Press Clips 1/23/2017


Southern Region


New York Times

By SUSAN CHIRA and JONATHAN MARTIN

January 22, 2017

More than a million people who turned out on Saturday for women’s marches in all 50 states have put down their placards, taken off their pink hats and ended their chants after what was an extraordinary display of dissent against the Trump presidency.

 


AFL-CIO NOW

By Kenneth Quinnell

January 22, 2017

Every week, we bring you a roundup of the top news and commentary about issues and events important to working families. Here’s this week’s Working People Weekly List.

 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! ON MARCH 4th PLEASE JOIN THE MARCH ON MISSISSIPPI! March 4, 2017 @ 1pm in Canton, Mississippi (Canton Multipurpose Sportsplex). Help us fight for the rights of Nissan Workers and all Workers in Mississippi to vote freely for Union representation without intimidation by their employers. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: (601) 859-2931

Texas


Houston Public Media

By Al Ortiz

January 20, 2017

“We are worried about attacks on both workers’ rights and the workplace, the ability to form unions. We are worried that the new Secretary of Labor is not a supporter of the federal minimum wage,” said Hany Khalil, executive director of the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation AFL-CIO.

 


KVUE

By Erin Jones

January 21, 2017

APD estimated between 40,000 and 50,000 people attended the march in front of the Texas State Capitol Saturday afternoon, many with a message to share.

 


Houston Chronicle

By Brooke A. Lewis and Keri Blakinger

January 22, 2017

More than 20,000 singing, sign-waving protesters packed Hermann Square to roar their opposition to newly inaugurated President Donald Trump and show their solidarity with marching women across the nation Saturday.

 


Dallas Morning News

By Claire Ballor

January 22, 2017

Thousands of women of all ages, colors and creeds turned out Saturday morning for the Dallas Women's March through downtown, a day after President Donald Trump took office.

 


 

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Southern Region
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Friday, January 20, 2017

Texas Regional Press Clips



The Atlantic

By ALANA SEMUELS

January 19, 2017

It was in the early days of Ronald Reagan’s campaign for president that America first started frequently hearing the term “job-killing regulations” in response to an increasing number of environmental laws.


Texas

HOUSTON UNITES FOR ANTI-TRUMP RALLY AND MARCH

 

As Donald Trump is inaugurated Friday morning in Washington DC, immigrant, community and labor groups in Houston will unite to jointly declare our intention to fight for all communities at risk under the incoming Trump administration.

 

Hundreds of people are expected to gather at Sesquicentennial Park at 10 a.m. Friday to mark the start of the resistance movement that will be needed to keep our communities safe, free and thriving. We will send the message that Houston Builds Bridges, Not Walls.

 

WHO:    Texas Gulf Coast AFL-CIO, Mi Familia Vota, SEIU, CAIR Texas, United We Dream, Battleground Texas, Houston Federation of Teachers, Emerge USA, Fight for 15, New Leaders Council Houston, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Interfaith Justice Coalition, UNITE HERE Local 23, Pacifica Radio KPFT 90.1, t.e.j.a.s., Young Active Labor Leaders (YALL), International Association of Machinists Lodge 811, Houston Gulf Coast Building and Construction Trades Council, and Texas Organizing Project.

 

WHAT: Houston Unido March and Rally #EraofResistance

 

WHERE:       Sesquicentennial Park, 300 Smith Street, next to bayou

 

WHEN:          Friday, January 20, 2017

                        Assembly 10 a.m.

                        Rally 10:30 am

                        March 11:00 am to 12 noon


DeLane Adams
AFL-CIO Field Communications
Southern Region
Cell: 404-402-9764
Twitter: @delane392

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Texas Regional Press Clips



AFL-CIO NOW

By Rebecca L. Reindel & Eunice Salcedo

January 18, 2017

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration held a stakeholder meeting last week on preventing workplace violence in health care and social assistance—industries where nurses, social workers, emergency response workers, home care workers, psychiatric aides and others are on the front line.

 


LA Times

By Don Lee and Jim Puzzanghera

January 19, 2017

Donald Trump's ascendance to the White House has raised hopes among U.S. businesses for the most significant rollback of regulations since the Reagan administration.

 


Business Insider

By David Dayen

January 17, 2017

Millions of Americans spend every day preoccupied with whether they can make a better life for themselves than their parents did, and whether they can pass on that opportunity to their children.

Texas


Texas Tribune

By JULIƁN AGUILAR

January 19, 2017

A North Texas Republican is hell-bent this session on forcing lawmakers to take an up-or-down vote on repealing a popular state program that allows some undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges.

DeLane Adams
AFL-CIO Field Communications
Southern Region
Cell: 404-402-9764
Twitter: @delane392


Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Texas Region Press Clips


Texas


Star Telegram

January 17, 2017

In Dallas, the Women’s March is being expanded to include a rally and “mega” phone bank.

 

It starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at Dallas City Hall, 1500 Marilla St.

 

Participants will walk about 1.7 miles to the CWA Hall, 1408 N. Washington Ave., during the event, which is hosted by state Rep. Victoria Neave, D-Dallas.

 

There, they will have a rally and begin a phone bank, calling women to ask what their top legislative priorities are and let them know they’ve “got their back,” said Rebecca Acuna, chief of staff for Neave.

 

Co-hosts of the Dallas event include Planned Parenthood, Moms Demand Action, Battleground Texas, the Dallas AFL-CIO and the Texas Young Democrats.

 


Houston Chronicle

By Lydia Depillis

January 17, 2017

Civic leaders love to talk about how Houston is a city of opportunity. It's on banners at the airport. It's been used to sell the General Plan. The Greater Houston Partnership uses it as a tagline. Mayor Sylvester Turner used the word "opportunity" five times in his inauguration speech last year.

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