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A recent editorial published in the Richmond Times Dispatch by IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger and Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) President Marion C. Blakey warns of grave threats to the nation’s national security if Congress allows the tsunami of across-the-board spending cuts known as “sequestration” to go forward. Recalling the lessons learned when America’s industrial
Read moreLast week, the Union of the Unemployed (UCubed) registered on the radar screens of the vast right-wing conspiracy. Daily Caller, Human Events aka the John Birch Society, the Drudge Report, the Romantic Poet, Fox Business News and literally thousands of their fruitcake friends went bananas over the idea that UCubed would even try to organize
Read moreIAM District 142 and Alaska Airlines this week reached a tentative agreement for approximately 600 Ramp and Stores employees at the carrier. The proposed deal took less than four months to bargain and the negotiating committee has unanimously recommended ratification. “Job security was our number one issue heading into these negotiations, and this agreement delivers not
Read moreA leaked draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) investment chapter reveals that U.S. trade negotiators are considering a dispute resolution process that would grant transnational corporations unprecedented authority to challenge countries’ laws, regulations and court decisions in international tribunals that circumvent domestic judicial systems. “We are just beginning to analyze the new texts now, but
Read moreRight now, more than 1,000 firefighters are battling the massive High Park fire in Colorado, which is in its sixth day and has so far burned nearly 50,000 acres. Many of these firefighters are NFFE-IAM Forest Service workers who do not have access to quality, affordable health care because their jobs are classified as temporary,
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