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The IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger today reaffirmed the IAM’s opposition to the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). “The Obama administration’s latest efforts to secure passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement with a side agreement referred to as an ‘action plan’ is simply unacceptable,” said Buffenbarger. “While details of the plan have yet to be unveiled,
Read moreWisconsin voters spoke loud and clear in the first chance they had to react to GOP Governor Scott Walker’s union busting budget bill and other antics funded by conservatives like the Koch brothers. In a close race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, liberal candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg overcame a thirty-point deficit in just over six weeks
Read moreSouthern Territory GVP Bob Martinez (center) joined members of the Local 2003 Bargaining Committee for the opening round of negotiations with Army Fleet Services, a government contractor employing more than 3,500 IAM members at Ft. Rucker in southeastern Alabama. Representatives of Local 2003 at Ft. Rucker, AL, opened negotiations this week with Army Fleet Services
Read moreThe IAM Legislative Conference is set for May 9-12, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency in Washington, D.C. You can reserve rooms by calling the Hyatt Regency directly at 202-737-1234. Among the events planned will be a broadcast by MSNBC television and radio host Ed Schultz. Legislative Conference delegates must register on Monday, May 9, between
Read moreIn a column published in the San Francisco Chronicle, self-described “token conservative” columnist Debra J. Saunders describes General Electric Chairman and Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt as the “Jobs Czar from Hell.” President Obama chose Immelt to head the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness last January – this despite some pretty glaring conflicts of interests,
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