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The results of the 2012 IAM Newsletter and Website Contest are in. The District and Local Lodge first place winners for each category are: In the Newsletter Category – Two districts tied for top honors for General Excellence: NFFE-IAM Federal District 1 in Washington, DC, for The Federal Employee and District Lodge 141 in Chicago
Read moreMembers of Local 733 in Wichita, KS employed at Hawker Beechcraft Corp. (HBC) will have an opportunity to vote this week on a proposal that would prevent termination of their existing defined benefit pension plan. The proposed contract change has the unanimous recommendation of the IAM District 70, Local 733 Bargaining Committee and would require
Read moreThe GOP race to suppress as many young, elderly and minority votes as possible by Election Day continues across the country with Pennsylvania and Florida dominating most recent headlines. Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law is now headed to the state Supreme Court after a judge upheld the unjust piece of legislation last week. “It was
Read moreThe sordid love affair between corporate America and prison inmates deserves far more attention than it currently receives, and not just because unemployment is high and the nation is struggling to escape the worst recession in 70 years. A particularly outrageous example of the practice is taking place at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Pensacola,
Read moreLabor unions and other worker associations are necessary to help lift workers and their families out of poverty amid a “broken economy,” according to Bishop Stephen E. Blaire, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. “Economic renewal that places working people and their families at the center of economic
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