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Ur Union of Unemployed, or UCubed, the online community for America’s unemployed, has a new short video on its site titled, “FDR: Try Something.” http://www.unionofunemployed.com/blog/recent-news/fdr-try-something. It shares some of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wisdom during the depths of the Great Depression, much of which holds true in today’s Grave Recession. “It is common sense to take
Read moreFront row, left to right: Local 839 President Kathy Peterson, 1st Shift In-plant Rep David Eagle, District 70 DBR Steve Rooney, BR Becky Ledbetter. Middle row: 2nd shift In-plant Rep Howard Johnson, Headquarters GVP Rich Michalski, IP Tom Buffenbarger, Local 839 Communicator Dennis Williams. Back Row: IAM General Counsel Christopher Corson, Grand Lodge Representative
Read moreUr Union of Unemployed, or UCubed, launched 11 days ago. And not a moment too soon. In the Massachusetts Senate race last Tuesday, Scott Brown won the unemployed vote by five points and the union vote by three percent. He won blue-collar males by 27 percent and he won blue-collar females by 13 percent. His victory was propelled,
Read moreIAM District Lodge 24 in Portland, OR, will share in a $5 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor to the Oregon Manufacturing Extension Partnership to provide job training in renewable energy industries. The grant is part of nearly $100 million of green jobs training grants authorized by the Recovery Act of 2009.
Read moreMore than 250 employees in the U.S. Forest Service Human Resources Management (HRM) department in Albuquerque, NM voted in favor of representation by the National Federation of Federal Employees-IAM (NFFE-IAM). The vote brings the benefits of collective bargaining and union representation to 385 employees in the public-sector bargaining unit. “Yesterday’s victory could not have happened
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