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Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) member Robin De Haven is being hailed nationally as a quick-thinking hero for his actions after anti-IRS fanatic Joseph Stack crashed his private plane into an Austin, TX, office building. De Haven, a 26-year-old Iraq war veteran, who is also a graduate of the Helmets to Hardhats program, immediately drove
Read moreThe ‘Jobs for America Now’ coalition is hosting a National Call-in Day on February 23, 2010, to urge members of Congress to support a full year extension of unemployment insurance and COBRA subsidies. Click here for more information and call-in instructions as well as tips how to make your call as effective as possible. Cutting off
Read moreA last-minute provision put in place by Congress which allows jobless workers to receive up to 15 months of help with COBRA payments is set to expire. After February 28, 2010, anyone who loses their job will not only be out of work, but possibly out of health coverage. Without the 65 percent COBRA subsidy
Read moreHawker Beechcraft announced this week that more than 250 high-skill, high-paying jobs will be eliminated when it closes a factory in Salina, KS. A company spokesperson confirmed that half the jobs would go to a facility in Mexico and half to outside vendors. When the closure was first announced in November 2009, company officials indicated
Read moreA Mexican appeals court issued an order that allows the Grupo Mexico mining company to terminate the employment and dissolve the union contract for nearly 1,200 members of the National Union of Mine and Metalworkers (SNTMMSRM) at the massive Cananea copper mine. The miners at the Cananea mine have been on strike since July 2007
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