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NWA-Delta Propose Mega Merger Not even a year after emerging from dual bankruptcies that wiped out shareholders, devastated employees and cut service to many communities, Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines have announced plans to merge, creating the world’s largest airline and likely triggering additional mergers. “Airline industry consolidation will come at tremendous public expense,”
Read more7,700 Fleet Workers at US Airways to Vote The IAM announced it reached a tentative agreement with US Airways covering 7,700 Fleet Service employees. The agreement, if ratified, would bring US Airways and former America Fleet Service employees under the same wages and work rules for the first time since the merger of the two
Read moreBush Flogs Trade Pact With Columbia Ignoring a blood-soaked record of human rights violations that includes murder, kidnapping and torture of trade union leaders, President George Bush is urging Congress to approve a free trade agreement with Columbia, calling it essential to America’s national security interests. The bid by the Bush administration to secure yet
Read moreMachinists Slam Obama Tanker Comments “Senator Barack Obama just walked away from another fight for American jobs,” declared IAM President Tom Buffenbarger, after the Illinois Democrat failed to speak up for U.S. workers affected by the refueling tanker scandal. “This is becoming his trademark, but never before has he done so with 44,000 American jobs
Read moreConnecticut Workers Protest Tanker Contract At a rally in East Hartford, CT, this week, union members, business leaders, elected officials and workers from across Connecticut voiced their collective outrage over the awarding of a $40 billion Air Force tanker contract to Airbus and Northrop Grumman. “If we don’t maintain our industrial base and skilled workforce,
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