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Left to right: Owen Herrnstadt, IAM Director of Trade & Globalization; Arve Bakke, Fellesforbundet President (Norway); Jens Bundvad, Nordic-IN General Secretary (Sweden); Stefan Löfven, IF Metall President (Sweden); Mads Anderson, CO-industri Vice President (Denmark); R. Thomas Buffenbarger, IAM International President; Claus Jensen, CO-industri Vice President (Denmark); Heikki Kauppi, TEK President, (Finland); Jan-Henrik Sandberg, Swedish Paperworkers
Read moreHow important is it to get out the vote this midterm election? Ponder this… Sen. Orrin “Drug Test the Unemployed” Hatch (R-UT) with jurisdictional control over unemployment insurance benefits, Social Security, Railroad Retirement, pensions, international trade and Trade Adjustment Assistance. It could happen – if Republicans gain control of the Senate on Election Day, November
Read moreIn one of the largest union elections in airline history, the National Mediation Board (NMB) today began mailing voting instructions to more than 14,000 Fleet Service workers at Delta Air Lines. The election gives Delta employees an opportunity to secure bargaining rights and a contract that provides job security, guaranteed wage rates and a defined
Read moreIAM members at Hawker Beechcraft in Wichita, KS, will vote this week on a seven-year tentative agreement that preserves two-thirds of the 2,600 bargaining unit jobs that were threatened with elimination. Prior to the tentative agreement, Hawker Beechcraft was considering a $400 million offer from the state of Louisiana to relocate its entire manufacturing operation
Read moreMembers of Local 99 in Edmonton, Alberta, have ratified a new two-year collective agreement with Finning International. “Money was actually settled relatively quickly,” said District 14 Business Representative Kevin Clark. “It was everything else that almost consumed seven months of tough bargaining.” Among the agreement highlights are: long term disability increased to $5,000 per month;
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