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Boeing Seeks No Pensions for New Hires In 2005, IAM members at Boeing facilities in Kansas, Oregon and Washington rejected a divisive contract offer from the company and voted overwhelmingly to strike. Despite record profits and a long list of backordered aircraft, the Boeing Company is signaling it will try to replace its traditional defined benefit pension plan
Read moreTrade Offsets Threaten U.S. Jobs, National Security According to a new report by IAM Trade and Globalization Director Owen Herrnstadt, the U.S. government’s failure to develop a coherent policy on trade offsets, a form of outsourcing, has resulted in thousands of lost jobs and the transfer of technological innovation to other countries. This transfer poses a serious threat
Read moreNWA-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
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