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The exodus of U.S. jobs continues as British petroleum giant BP announced it will be closing its solar-panel manufacturing plant in Frederick, MD, and moving to China and India. Barely three years after unveiling a $70 million plan for the creation of green jobs, the company says it’s preparing to layoff 320 workers and will
Read moreLeo Hindery, Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, produces a Summary of U.S. Real Unemployment each month after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases its monthly Household and Employer Surveys. This month the BLS touted the creation of 162,000 jobs. Not so fast, says Mr. Hindery (pictured at left). Hindery’s summary makes three important adjustments: it identifies average weeks
Read moreThe IAM Women’s Basic program will be held May 2-7, 2010 at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, MD. The Program covers establishing lodge Women’s Committees and making existing Committees more effective. The curriculum for this basic program is designed to provide women members, officers, and activists with the leadership skills
Read more“How much longer will America’s ‘gravest recession’ last?” That’s the question posed by IAM Communications Director Rick Sloan in an article appearing this week in the Huffington Post. Citing the conservative figures provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sloan points to the 13.0 million jobs lost since 2007 and questions whether the jobs crisis
Read moreThe Oregon AFL-CIO is urging unions nationwide to support their boycott of Fog Cutter Capital Group, Inc. & Granite Investments. Fog Cutter’s principal business is the Fatburger fast food chain. According to the Oregon AFL-CIO, the firm earned a place on the union’s Unfair/Do Not Patronize list because of their business connections to Andrew Weiderhorn,
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