Come out to show your support as Unifi agents vote to join the IAM. Voting is June 4th and 5th at select times. Please refer to flyer for more information. Voting will take place in the north terminal.
ENDORSEMENT VOTE
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JOINT NEGOTIATIONS FOR ALASKA COPS AND RSSA, AND HAWAIIAN, START
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD ARTICLE 19 MERGER PROCEDURES OVERVIEW
DEADLINE EXTENDED
Call for Contract Proposals
Submitting a contract proposal allows you to have a direct voice in shaping the terms of your employment, ensuring that your needs and concerns are addressed in negotiations. It strengthens the collective bargaining process by bringing attention to important workplace issues, such as wages, benefits, and working conditions. By actively participating, you help create a stronger, more unified union that advocates for fair and equitable treatment for all members. Click this link to submit a proposal
22-AS_IAM-Alaska-Airlines-RSSA-Call-for-Contract-Proposals2025 IAM Scholarship Competition Application Deadline is February 3, 2025
Click here for the IAMAW Scholarships website
IAM Scholarships
Scholarship Competition Overview
This scholarship competition is open each year to members of the IAM and their children throughout the United States and Canada under procedures and rules of eligibility explained in this Announcement. The IAM Scholarship Fund, which is used exclusively to make possible these awards, was established by the delegates of the 1960 IAM Grand Lodge Convention.
The Scholarship Competition
Scholarships to make possible the attainment of a Bachelor’s degree or a two-year vocational/technical certification are determined in a competition among eligible applicants that is judged by a special Selection Committee.
Amount of the Awards
Awards to members are $2,000 per academic year. They are granted for a specific period from one to four years to enable the member to earn a Bachelor’s degree or a two-year vocational/technical certification.
Awards to Children of Members are:
College – $1,000 per academic year. All awards are renewed each year until a Bachelor’s degree is obtained up to a maximum of four years.
Vocational/Technical School – $2,000 per year until certification is reached up to a maximum of two years
Eligibility
An eligible applicant must be either:
An active IAM member;
The son, daughter, stepchild or legally adopted child of an active or retired IAM member.
A Member Applicant
Must have two years of continuous good-standing membership through the closing date of the competition;
May apply either when entering college or vocational/technical school as a freshman or at a higher level with some college credits already completed;
May apply as a full-time or part-time student; and
If not a winner, may apply again the following year.
Child of a Member Applicant
Must have one living parent with two years of continuous good-standing membership through the closing date of the competition;
Will be eligible if the parent member died after the son or daughter entered high school, and the parent had two years of “continuous good-standing membership” at the time of death;
A “continuous good-standing membership” is understood to be a period of membership during which the member continuously paid monthly dues uninterrupted by withdrawal cards;
Must be planning to graduate high school during the winter or by the end of the spring of the current school year;
Must plan to take a regular college or vocational/technical program on a full-time basis, maintaining qualifying grades.
Ineligible Applicants Include:
Applicants who do not intend to work without interruption for a bachelor’s degree or completion of a vocational/technical school certification;
Members’ children who are attending or have already attended college or vocational/technical school;
Children of members on the payroll of the Grand Lodge;
Graduate students; and
Applicants who do not plan to enroll in an accredited college or vocational/technical school.
Release the Salary Study!
Click here to sign the petition.
To address high turnover and chronic understaffing in state agencies, Alaska lawmakers appropriated $1,000,000 in public funds to conduct a salary study to ensure the State is keeping pace with comparable industries in both the public and private sectors.
Based on reports received by ASEA, the salary study was completed in June/July of 2024. In August, the State amended the original contract with instructions for the Segal Company to issue a “new version” of the report. That revised report was due October 31, 2024. To our knowledge, no one other than the governor and his administration has reviewed this study, funded by the legislature.
In response to Freedom of Information Act Requests, the Governor refused to release the reports claiming they were “drafts” and a finalized report would not be available until approximately midway through the 2025 legislative session. On January 10, 2025, after being told that he could not refuse to release “draft” reports, the Governor now claims all drafts have been destroyed. See former Daily News Reporter, now blogger, Dermot Cole, who is sharing that Governor Dunleavy ‘no longer has any copies of’ the salary study. This news is truly shocking.
The last salary study of classified state positions was conducted in 2009. That analysis is more than fifteen years old and ASEA is understandably concerned that the Administration is censoring new information that aligns wages for state employees with comparators in both public and private sectors.
The answer to Alaska’s high turnover and chronic understaffing is not rocket science. The State must pay people fairly for their work, pay them when and what they’re due, treat those employees with respect, and provide them with a dignified retirement. This anticipated salary study is a critical piece of this equation.
As we continue to gather information about the status of the final salary study and the prior “draft” reports, please join lawmakers and public employee union leaders who have been calling on the State to release the entire study.
Please sign this petition to help us demonstrate that there is tremendous interest and motivation for the State to release the salary study to the public ASAP!