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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 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
Read moreHundreds of IAM members gathered under clear skies in Joliet, IL to hear lawmakers, candidates and national union leaders express support for members of Local 851, District 8, who are in the third week of a strike against Caterpillar, Inc. Local 851 members voted overwhelmingly on May 1 to reject a contract from Caterpillar that
Read more“Our forefathers fought for this pension plan. They fought for our insurance. They fought for our wages. Everything we have today is because of them,” says District 776 member Pauline Ramos in ‘Ain’t No Way,’ a new IAM video about the strike at Lockheed Martin. “I’ll be damned if I’m going to tell them that
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