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IAM Establishes Tornado Relief Fund Victims of the tornado that cut through Southern Alabama nearly 3 weeks ago are doing everything they can to put their lives back together. But that can be a tall order when all that’s left are the clothes on your back and a pile of sticks where your house once
Read moreVote Ends Lockout at AK Steel in Ohio IAM members at AK Steel in Middletown, OH voted overwhelmingly this week to approve a new contract that secures workers’ pensions and brings an end to the nearly 13-month long lockout. The vote was 1,275 in favor, 226 opposed. The agreement calls for wage increases of up
Read moreUnion Coalition Strikes Mississippi Shipyard Dissatisfaction over a proposed contract and deep-seated resentment over economic and psychological stresses brought on by Hurricane Katrina have triggered a strike by 6,300 union shipbuilders at Northrop Grumman’s Pascagoula, MS, shipyard. The Gulf Coast facility, also known as the Ingalls Yard, was shut down on March 8 following
Read moreFast Track to Nowhere The debate over free trade agreements is back on the nation’s front pages as the Bush administration seeks fresh “Fast Track” authorization to broker sweeping trade deals without input from labor activists, human rights advocates or even elected officials. Clickhere to see an eye opening video that cuts to the core
Read moreIndustrial Policy Needed Now, says Buffenbarger Machinists Union International President Tom Buffenbarger told a group of fellow union leaders and top presidential campaign staffers that blue collar workers in the U.S. cannot afford to wait for election-year platitudes and campaign promises to rebuild the nation’s devastated manufacturing base. “America’s industrial resurgence cannot wait for ’08,”
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