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Working families have less than 14 hours and counting to stop Congress from shipping hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs overseas. According to the IAM’s new Countdown to Calamity Clock, Congress is set to vote on three seriously-flawed free trade agreements (FTAs) on October 4. The pending trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama
Read moreCongress is set to vote October 4 on three seriously-flawed free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. Should the pending FTAs negotiated by the Bush administration pass, more than 159,000 middle-class jobs will be shipped overseas. With our country suffering from persistent high unemployment, we cannot afford more NAFTA-style trade agreements that
Read moreA strong presence by labor in the halls of Congress made all the difference in the fight to defeat an amendment that would have eliminated a key enforcement remedy available to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The amendment, introduced in the Senate Appropriations Committee by South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham, would strip the
Read moreThe Town Hall meeting that was a featured event at the 2011 IAM Human Rights Conference in Orlando, FL will air on the Joe Madison radio program on September 27, 2011. The program airs at 6:00 am and 8 pm Eastern time and can be heard on “The Power,” Channel 128, Sirius XM and in
Read moreMembers of Local 992 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, have ratified a new collective agreement with Dettson Incorporated. “We began negotiations on June 7 and came to a tentative agreement by September 15,” explained Grand Lodge Representative Mario Clermont. “This is a new employer and the creation of a joint labor relations committee to look over the
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