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The IAM strike at Lockheed Martin facilities in Maryland, Texas and California grew this week to include an early morning picket line outside the defense contractors’ Washington, D.C. headquarters. Company security guards paced nervously as passing cars honked their horns in support for the IAM members who carried their message of no more takeaways to
Read moreThe judge overseeing Hawker Beechcraft’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has approved the appointment of IAM Aerospace Coordinator Ron Eldridge to sit on the official committee of unsecured creditors. The role of the committee is to represent the interests of Hawker Beechcraft’s unsecured creditors like the IAM, and as a member of the committee, Eldridge will
Read moreThe May 2012 IAM Journal is now available on the IAM App. Digital issues of the Journal are published each month. You can get the app on iPad, Android Tablet and/or Android Phone. For information on how to download the free IAM App, click here and follow the links to Apple’s iTunes Store or the
Read moreIf the recent attempt to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act was a reminder that eternal vigilance is indeed the price of liberty, then the $2 billion trading loss by J.P Morgan is an equally painful reminder that we can ill afford to heed the calls for less regulation by the nation’s top bankers. JP
Read moreThe GOP campaign to roll back voting rights for minority voters reached a new low this past week with a proposal by Tea Party favorite Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) to cut off funds for enforcement of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The defunding proposal targeted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which
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