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IKEA’s Swedwood operation in Danville, VA, announced at a recent staff meeting that the company was eliminating 66 percent of its workers’ voluntary vacation time. The furniture-maker workers would only have four days of voluntary vacation time a year. Use of remaining days would be at the company’s discretion. “First, Swedwood took away these workers’
Read moreEach year, the IAM honors the hard work and dedication of its many newsletter editors and web stewards by holding a Newsletter and Website Contest. The deadline for submissions for the 2011 IAM Newsletter and Website Contest is May 13, 2011. The contest is open to all local and district lodges that publish an official
Read moreMore than 90 percent of the 2,600 IAM members at Alaska Airlines voted to ratify a new contract that includes pay raises, a $1,500 signing bonus, job security provisions and participation in an annual performance-based pay incentive plan. The incentive plan will provide IAM members at Alaska Airlines with more than a month’s wages for
Read moreOne hundred and seventy six workers at Defense Support Services at Hurlburt Field in Fort Walton Beach, FL, voted recently to be represented by the Machinists Union. The workers perform maintenance and repair for the C-130 aircraft at the base. A team from District 75 in Daleville, AL, including Business Representatives Tony Wirth, Steve Jordan
Read moreAfter the Tea Party-induced firestorm about imaginary death panels in health care reform, GOP budget cuts to Medicaid in Arizona are resulting in deaths for patients who had qualified for Medicaid coverage for organ transplants but were dropped after the GOP-controlled state legislature and GOP Governor cut funding for the program. Ninety-eight patients became ineligible,
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