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President Obama speaking at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting. Seated (from left): AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker. In a speech this week to the AFL-CIO Executive Council in Washington, D.C., President Barack Obama recalled the words of Franklin Roosevelt to describe the enduring value
Read moreSenate Democrats finally broke a GOP filibuster and cleared the way for a bill giving crucial financial aid to states that will keep hundreds of thousands of teachers, firefighters, police and other providers of civil services on the job. The $26 billion bill includes $10 billion to retain teachers and another $16 billion to help
Read moreIAM District 142 has withdrawn their involvement from the maintenance Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) at Comair, a regional subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, because the company punishes workers for reporting maintenance problems. “We have discussed the problems with this dysfunctional program with both Comair and the FAA for months,” said District 142 President and
Read moreIn an interview with international labor radio station RadioLabour, IAM Woodworker Department Director William Street reports on the progress of the IAM campaign to unionize workers at Swedwood USA, an IKEA subsidiary in Danville, VA. “Given the fact that the workplace is phenomenally hostile and intimidating, that they have a ruthless termination policy that they
Read moreWorkers at Bombardier Learjet hear the good news from Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson as he announces that the new Learjet 85 will be assembled in Wichita. The community of Wichita had a big win when Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson announced that Bombardier Learjet will assemble the new composite Learjet 85 business jet in Wichita in
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