May 24, 2022 | Health Care, Healthcare, iMail, News, Organizing, Uncategorized, Western
The IAM and American Federation of Teachers New Mexico (AFT NM) have filed a majority of union recognition cards with the New Mexico Public Employee Labor Relations Board (NMPELRB) for almost 500 frontline healthcare workers at Sandoval Regional Medical Center. The...
Mar 1, 2022 | Health Care, Healthcare, iMail, News, Organizing, Western
The Western Territory is proud to announce that two first contracts have been reached providing economic security for Military and Family Life Counselors (MFLCs) in North Carolina and Colorado. MFLCs provide vital mental health services to members of all branches of...
Jan 13, 2022 | Health Care, Healthcare, iMail, News, Organizing
Fifty healthcare professionals from Overton Brooks Department of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center outpatient clinic in Longview, TX recently voted overwhelmingly to join the IAM. The successful campaign was the third and final piece of an organizing project for...
Mar 25, 2021 | Health Care, Healthcare, iMail, News, Politics & Legislation
In a letter to House leadership, IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr. is urging members of the House to support the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, H.R. 1195. This bipartisan legislation introduced by...
Mar 4, 2021 | Health Care, Healthcare, News, Organizing, Western
Last week, 14 Hospice Chaplains from the CHI Franciscan Hospice Care Center in University Place, WA voted overwhelmingly to join the IAM, becoming the first group of Chaplains to be organized by the IAM. Hospice Chaplains, who provide counseling and emotional and...
Dec 15, 2020 | Health Care, Healthcare, iMail, News, Organizing, Western
Last Friday, 114 Registered Nurses from CHI Franciscan Hospice Care Center in University Way, WA joined hands to vote for the IAM by an 82 percent majority. Just two and a half weeks ago, their co-workers who work as Master Social Workers and Bereavement Counselors at...
