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With job losses continuing and long-term unemployment reaching the highest level since 1948, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act (H.R. 5749) by a vote of 331-83. Despite predictions the recession is running out of steam, last month the national unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent. The average length
Read moreIn a move that underscores General Electric’s desire to close a jet engine facility in Albuquerque, NM, the company has refused thus far to extend the 60-day “meet and confer” period designed to find ways to keep the facility open. The 40-year old plant is responsible for more than 1,300 local jobs and generates more
Read moreThe issues of poverty and race took center stage at the 39 th Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) this week. The 42-member CBC and thousands of guests converged on Washington, D.C., for a four-day debate about legislative and policy issues impacting the African-American community. Organizers focused on a newly released U.S.
Read moreEducation Rep. Henry Bagwell leads discussion during a new class to enhance leadership skills for IAM members associated with Metal & Atomic Trades Councils. IAM local lodge officers who are associated with Metal & Atomic Trades Councils recently attended a new class at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center that was specially developed
Read moreOn Sept. 16, Senator Baucus (D-MT), Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, released a deeply flawed health care reform bill that fails to meet the most basic promise of health care reform, and threatens to shift more costs to employees represented by labor unions. IAM members in Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota,
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