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After 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,
Read moreThe Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions declined in 2010 by 612,000 to 14.7 million. The rate was 11.9 percent, down from 12.3 percent in 2009. The data also shows the median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary union members was $917 per
Read moreThe Southern Territory regional office has moved to a new location in Arlington, TX. The new mail and shipping address is: IAM Southern Territory Regional Office 1521 N. Cooper Street, Suite 250 Arlington, TX 76011 Phone (817) 505-0100 Fax (817) 459-0102
Read moreIn the past five months, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt eliminated scores of U.S. jobs when he closed GE plants in Virginia, Massachusetts and Ohio. The IAM is asking if this is the record that inspired President Obama to name Immelt to be chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. “We are rewarding
Read moreThe new GOP majority in the House is using their so-called mandate for spending reductions to target programs and workers that have long been on their hit list. High on the list are federal workers, high-speed rail projects and Amtrak. Just released by the Republican Study Committee, the new GOP blueprint for spending reductions calls
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