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IAM President Buffenbarger and Spirit AeroSystems CEO Jeff Turner spoke with members of newly-chartered Local 350 in Kinston, NC following the signing of a first contract with Spirit. Freshly-chartered Local 350 in Kinston, NC is kicking into high gear with a ground-breaking contract between the IAM and Spirit AeroSystems that includes language allowing for changes
Read moreLobstermen from Vinalhaven, ME, met at the IAM’s Winpisinger Center to plan an organizing effort to preserve their way of life. A unique group of workers, Lobstermen from Maine, met at the IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Education & Technology Center to plan organizing not only themselves, but potentially thousands of Lobstermen up and down the
Read moreU.S. lawmakers are rapidly approaching the onset of a “fiscal doomsday” scenario, known as sequestration, which promises, among many other things, to sacrifice more than a million U.S. jobs and hinder military readiness. President Obama is expected to meet with the top four Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate on March 1
Read moreIAM International President Tom Buffenbarger joined fellow members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council in calling on President Obama to immediately nominate a slate of five members to fill all vacant seats on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The move comes on the heels of a recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision that ruled the
Read moreThe fate of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 now rests in the hands of nine U.S. Supreme Court justices, including one who openly expressed contempt for the law. Oral arguments in the Shelby County v. Holder case concluded as what was best described as a “tense and sometimes fractious” process. At
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