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District 70 ADBR Rita Rogers was presented with the Ronald A. Walters Civic Leadership Award from the Wichita, KS, branch of the NAACP. The first woman to hold the position of Business Representative in District 70 was honored recently by the Wichita branch of the NAACP with their Ronald A. Walters Civic Leadership Award. A
Read moreThe IAM, along with 26 other unions, voiced its opposition to the Senate Finance Committee’s health care bill by sponsoring a full-page ad printed in The Washington Post, USA Today and Capitol Hill newspapers Wednesday. The ad outlines the labor movement’s bottom line as Congress braces for full debate on the issue: “Unless the bill
Read moreAmong the biggest lies circulating in the current health care debate is the gross distortion of universal health care in Canada, which has provided free health care for all citizens since 1961. According to an ugly and vocal coalition of right wing commentators, health insurance lobbyists and anti-government zealots, the Canadian system routinely denies treatment,
Read moreIn what would be a dramatic improvement to the rules governing union elections for airline and railroad employees, the National Mediation Board (NMB) is weighing a request from the AFL-CIO to allow representational elections to be decided by a majority of workers who cast ballots. “It’s time to give air and rail workers the same
Read morePennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell joined IAM representatives and members of Local 1400 at Voith Hydro in York, PA, to unveil a report intended to steer the U.S. towards the creation of 700,000 family-supporting jobs by 2025. According to the study, the U.S. hydropower industry could install between 23,000 megawatts and 60,000 megawatts of additional capacity
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