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NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At its January board meeting last week, the Executive Board of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) recognized the election of Dennis R. Arrington as the new president of the Industrial, Technical and Professional Employees (ITPEU)/OPEIU Local 4873. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130129/DC50103) Arrington was nominated unopposed and therefore elected by unanimous consent to assume the...

WEST POINT, Pa., June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Merck Independent Union (MIU) in West Point, Pennsylvania has overwhelmingly voted to join the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), AFL-CIO. MIU represents administrative employees employed by Merck Sharp & Dohme, a pharmaceutical corporation. The 287 members of MIU voted 96 - 4 in favor of affiliation with OPEIU and will now be known as MIU/OPEIU Local 1937, which celebrates the year in which...

NEW YORK, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), AFL-CIO is calling for all labor organizations with an open contract covering blood services to join in striking against the American Red Cross (ARC). ARC has traditionally been allowed to operate on a regional basis, with each region making its own decisions and negotiating its own contracts, which has led to more than 50 bargaining units throughout the country. In...

FORT WORTH, Texas, May 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) have ratified new labor agreements with Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Aeronautics in Fort Worth. The new agreements become effective Monday, May 21, 2012 and will extend for four and five years, respectively. The IBEW members approved their agreement in a vote on Friday, May 18, and the OPEIU members...

LAFAYETTE, La., May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Oil service industry helicopter pilots in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, members of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 107 employed by Bristow LLC, have voted to ratify a three-year agreement covering 235 pilots. The agreement comes after 18 months of negotiations and was ratified by 84.3 percent of the voting members. The secret ballot ratification vote was conducted by Survey and Ballot...

NEW YORK, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Nurses Council executive board has elected officers to two-year terms at its meeting held in Dallas, Texas on May 2, 2012. The OPEIU Nurses Council represents approximately 10,000 nurses affiliated with OPEIU throughout the United States. Paige Yates, RN, president of OPEIU Local 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas, has been elected to serve as Council Chair. Joan Craft, RN,...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Guild of Appraisers (AGA), a national organization of real estate appraisers that is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO's Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), has petitioned the Federal Reserve Board ("Fed") and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to overturn a regulation adopted by the Fed that is contrary to the Dodd Frank Financial Reform law, threatens the viability of professional appraisal...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis., Feb. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 95 last night won elections in two units, Community Care of Central Wisconsin (CCCW) and Portage County, overcoming Governor Scott Walker's Act 10 legislation requiring recertification by annual secret ballot vote. These two victories follow an earlier win in December 2011 at the Port Edwards School District, where workers voted to recertify the Union....

LANSING, Mich., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a National Labor Relations Board election held yesterday, Registered Nurses at McLaren Greater Lansing hospital voted for Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 459 by a wide margin. Local 459 was challenged by an independent group, the Ingham Professional Nurses Association (IPNA). The vote was 236 for OPEIU Local 459, 144 for IPNA and 8 no union. "These registered nurses have shown that...

DALLAS, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Professional Helicopter Pilots Association International (PHPA), a council of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), is proud to announce its pilot member, Captain Jay Slagel has been awarded the Helicopter Association International (HAI) Pilot of the Year award. The award was given at HAI's Heli-Expo 2012, held February 12-14 in Dallas Texas. Captain Slagel of OPEIU Local 107 was recognized for his...