How can the iam help rampers?
continental Rampers are our focus
The IAM represents 22,000 rampers at airlines around the world, more rampers than all other unions combined. Only the IAM can see your job on the ramp from your perspective.- At Continental Airlines, the only employee group that did not take a pay cut was an employee group represented by the IAM
— Continental flight attendants. It pays to have a union on your side.
- Only the IAM offers the IAM Pension Plan featuring a defined benefit. That means you can look forward with confidence to a secure retirement from Continental, when it’s time to retire. A defined benefit may be cleverly confused — by corporations — with a defined “contribution.”
The difference is who pays. The IAM negotiates for a company paid defined benefit, as part of your contract.
- Mergers are dangerous. One of the worst dangers is losing your union representation in a merger, and facing combined company cost cutting on your own. United Airlines continues to
aggressively and covertly pursue merger arrangements with Continental Airlines. The best union to withstand such a merger is the IAM. Only the IAM represents Ramp and Customer Service at United Airlines.
