Quick links+
The recent NLRB complaint against the Boeing Company is quickly becoming a cause célèbre among right-to-work zealots who are calling for extreme measures to “reign in” the federal agency charged with protecting U.S. labor laws. Behind a fog of misinformation, the right-wing media echo chamber is reverberating with claims that the NLRB is undertaking an
Read moreThe barrage of F5 tornados that tore across several southern states on April 27 may be receding from the public’s attention, but the work to repair those communities is only beginning. In Alabama alone, more than 170 people were killed, thousands injured and entire neighborhoods destroyed. The IAM is issuing an appeal for donations to
Read moreThe National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona for its illegal attempt to mandate the use of secret ballot-only union elections. The NLRB says the Arizona law violates federal law, in place now for 76 years. Arizona voters recently approved a state constitutional amendment requiring secret ballot elections
Read moreUCubed is asking the jobless for their help in designing a bumper sticker that sums up what it means to be unemployed in America. The grassroots organization for the unemployed and underemployed is holding the bumper sticker contest as another way to remind folks that America needs JOBS Now. The contest is part of UCubed’s
Read moreThe IAM welcomed House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer’s effort to restore the national focus on creating and preserving U.S. jobs as the primary pathway back to national economic prosperity. “Each month that passes without a comprehensive national plan to rebuild our manufacturing infrastructure is another month that this nation will suffer,” said IAM International President
Read more