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The IAM Executive Council voted unanimously to oppose any health care reform legislation that is funded by taxing the value of workers’ existing health care benefits. “ For decades, IAM members exchanged substantial wage increases for the best possible health insurance,” said IAM President Tom Buffenbarger. “Now, in a bizarre turn of events, their insurance
Read moreAs the fight to shape a final health care bill moves through Congress, working families can help stop the effort to tax their health care benefits by joining millions of fellow workers in the AFL-CIO’s National Call-In Blitz to the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 13, 2010. Call your Representative using the toll-free
Read moreThe value and power of an IAM contract was on prominent display in a recent ruling from the New York State Department of Labor (DOL), settling a dispute over how often IAM members at Northwest Airlines in New York would be paid. The dispute began when Delta management notified IAM members at Kennedy and LaGuardia
Read moreThe unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent for the month of December – but only because more people dropped out of the workforce. The U.S. Department of Labor reports the economy shed 85,000 jobs last month. But, had 661,000 people – discouraged by the downward economy – not given up looking for work, the
Read moreThree of the four students who faced extraordinary abuse and harassment in 1960 when they sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, will return to the city as guests of honor when the AFL-CIO holds its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Observance. The January 14-18 event, which draws labor and civil
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