Study Reveals Top Three Deficit Causes

Critics who bash Congress and the Obama administration’s stimulus and jobs programs as the cause of the nation’s high deficits ignore the main sources of the wave of red ink: the Bush-era tax cuts, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economic downturn.

NMB Decision to Trigger Election Countdown

The National Mediation Board (NMB) is currently weighing a request from the IAM to declare that Delta and Northwest are operating as a single carrier in the Fleet Service and Passenger Service classifications. A single carrier ruling by the NMB will initiate the final steps in the government's formal process leading to secret ballot elections for employees in each classification.

Workers at Americanos USA Win First Agreement

When workers at Americanos USA, LLC in Laredo, TX voted ‘yes’ in May to join the IAM, they joined with IAM members across Texas and California, culminating in a first contract for IAM members at all nine Americanos locations.

Portland Members Ratify New Agreement

Nearly 400 IAM members who work at the Daimler Corporation’s Portland Truck Plant in Portland, OR, recently ratified a new collective bargaining agreement that preserves current pay levels and increases pension contributions while allowing for flexibility to improve productivity at the facility.