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The enrollment deadline for the IAM Communications Department’s Communicator Course is October 12, 2012. The class will be held December 9-14, 2012 at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Southern Maryland. The Communicator course is designed for new lodge Communicators, or Communicators who are not publishing websites or newsletters and need help
Read moreA new report from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) paints a grim picture for tens of thousands of workers at federal agencies facing more than $1.2 TRILLION in impending sequestration cuts set to take effect on January 1, 2013. The massive report, issued as required by the recently-approved Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012,
Read moreThe GOP sponsor of Pennsylvania’s controversial voter identification law says only “lazy” people would be disenfranchised by the requirement to show photo identification at the polls. “As Mitt Romney said, 47 percent of the people that are living off the public dole, living off their neighbors’ hard work, and we have a lot of people
Read moreThe Obama White House filed a lawsuit against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) for illegally subsidizing exports in its autos and auto parts sectors, a practice that puts U.S. auto parts manufacturers and some 800,000 American workers at a competitive disadvantage and encourages the outsourcing of auto parts production to China. The U.S.
Read moreA Wisconsin judge overturned most of Republican Governor Scott Walker’s attack on public employee collective bargaining rights last week. The ruling by Dane County Judge Juan Colas overturns parts of Walker’s ban on collective bargaining and returns the law to its status before the legislation was passed and signed by Walker in March 2011. The
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