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Local 898 President Rick Boardman (left) and Southern Territory GVP Bob Martinez (right) look on as IAM President Tom Buffenbarger signs documents that pledge full support for the HPWO partnership at Vance AFB in Enid, OK. Less than 12 months after resolving a strike by nearly 900 members of Local 898 at Vance Air
Read moreIn testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, IAM Director of Trade and Globalization Owen Herrnstadt described how Western aerospace companies are providing China with billions in tools and technologies that are certain to cost U.S. aerospace jobs. “The outsourcing of aerospace and related work to China poses a threat to U.S. aerospace
Read moreDespite a public campaign of complaints and accusations that representation elections for airline workers are too lengthy, Delta Air Lines is among the biggest backers of a new lawsuit aimed squarely at new voting guidelines recently issued by the National Mediation Board (NMB). The lawsuit, filed last week in federal district court by the Air Transport
Read moreThe Senate Appropriations Committee this week voted unanimously to reinforce a current law requiring congressional approval before cutting funds for the Constellation program. Click here to view a new IAM video about efforts to preserve the U.S. Space program. The amendment mandates that funds budgeted for Constellation in fiscal 2010 must be used for the
Read moreFor the second time in three years, workers at Toyota assembly plants in Cambridge, ON, and Woodstock, ON, have launched a drive for IAM representation. The IAM currently represents thousands of members in the Canadian automotive transportation sector at manufacturing facilities in Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia. “The inside organizing committee has been canvassing
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