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Top Pentagon officials say the Department of Defense (DoD) has already begun eliminating some 46,000 temporary civilian workers ahead of possible mandatory budget cuts. A total of nearly 800,000 jobs could be threatened in all. “We are on the brink of creating a hollow force due to an unprecedented convergence of budget conditions and legislation,”
Read moreThe new education partnership between the IAM and UMass-Amherst has recently yielded some very exciting results. Eight IAM members—Edward Delaporte, Bridget Fitzgerald, Mark Hollibush, Hazel Powers, Heather Ragle, Frank Saptel, Richard Suarez, and Gil Yap—just completed their first graduate-level session at the Amherst campus. Another IAM member, Karen Blanchard, who began the program in 2011,
Read moreThe National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has worked out a settlement agreement for Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charges filed by the IAM against Strategic Resources, Inc. (SRI). SRI is a Service Contract Act employer at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. The settlement allows SRI to avoid a trial on more than a dozen violations
Read moreIn a wide-ranging conversation with radio host Bill Press that included the economy, jobs, sequestration, labor law enforcement and right-to-work (for less) efforts, IAM President Tom Buffenbarger called for an aggressive strategy to overcome the right-wing’s war on unions and the middle-class. President Buffenbarger says a good offense is the best defense. “I am sick
Read moreFour years ago today, a newly elected President Barack Obama delivered on a campaign promise and signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The law makes it easier for women to effectively challenge unequal pay. Ms Ledbetter, who discovered her employer was paying her less than men for the same work, took her
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