fbpx

Author: jwoodward@iamaw.org

Frontline Healthcare Staff at Ohio State Uniting for Professional Recognition, Safe Patient Care

Patient Care Associates (PCA’s) at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center are ramping up their campaign to win IAM representation. PCAs have critical responsibilities in the hospital’s team-based care model, which include working closely with Registered Nurses at the bedside. In departments ranging from Radiation Oncology to the Emergency Room, PCAs help to implement each…
Read more

District 751, IAM Healthcare Teaming Up to Bring Rights to Washington State Healthcare Workers

Adapted from the IAM District 751 Aero Mechanic. Healthcare workers are the frontline heroes we rely on in our most vulnerable moments. They deserve a voice on the job and union representation to protect them and the patients in their care.  That’s why IAM District 751 is working to organize these workers and provide them with…
Read more

IAM Healthcare Union Joins Effort to Stop Sanford-Fairview Healthcare System Merger Plans

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2023 – IAM Healthcare, a part of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), is joining a growing chorus of healthcare worker and patient advocates opposing a proposed merger of Upper Midwest healthcare conglomerates Sanford Health and M Health Fairview. The IAM, which represents more than 10,000 healthcare workers across…
Read more

What is Right to Work?

Some of your co-workers have asked questions about right to work laws and how they impact your ability to form a union at Konikoff. Right to work laws do NOT make unions illegal. In fact, there are more than 150,000 union members in Virginia. What is right to work? Right to work is a law…
Read more

Creating Career Paths for Young Workers

A full residency Job Corps program not only helps young people from disadvantaged background complete their high school education, it trains them for their choice of 73 different career paths.Enter TCU/IAM Transportation Advanced Training, where young adults develop the skills needed to get a job in the transportation field. Nine training centers participate in the…
Read more

CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratio Widens: Now 361-to-1

Once again there’s more for them and less for us. The imbalance between the pay of CEOs and working people continues to increase. In 2017, CEO pay at S&P 500 Index companies increased to an average of nearly $14 million while production and nonsupervisory workers received on average just $38,613. The AFL-CIO recently released its…
Read more

Creating Career Paths For Young Workers

Vestibulum eu ante odio, in laoreet odio. Sed facilisis erat eget nunc porta ac dictum erat pharetra. Cras cursus rhoncus ante quis gravida. Sed pellentesque libero nec purus mattis semper.

In contrast

Maecenas luctus aliquet risus ac feugiat. Curabitur enim mi, placerat sit amet porttitor ac, mollis lobortis elit. Cras sit amet erat eget dolor varius tristique. Duis eu nisl tortor. Mauris pulvinar metus eget nulla adipiscing consectetur.

Starry Night

Nam quam arcu, imperdiet eget vehicula in, luctus id eros.  Duis bibendum egestas pulvinar. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos.

Another portrait

Pellentesque consectetur laoreet ipsum, eu ullamcorper sem fermentum vitae. Nullam varius tortor vitae tortor malesuada ac tristique odio sagittis.

× How can I help you?