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IAM Backs Massive Investment in Skills Training The IAM is joining with the Workforce Alliance, a coalition of business, civic and labor leaders calling for the largest investment in workforce training since the G.I. Bill. Members of the coalition this week announced the Skills2Compete campaign, a national effort to give every U.S. worker access to at least two
Read morePeru Trade Act Moves to Senate The U.S. House of Representatives today voted 285 – 132 to approve the controversial Peru Free Trade Agreement, despite strong objections from labor and human rights activists who are concerned the pact does not include adequate enforcement provisions. “We have repeatedly stressed that labor chapters in any trade agreement
Read moreFlorida Machinists Ratify Space Center Contract On Nov. 4, members of Local 2061 in Cocoa, FL ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with United Space Alliance (USA), ending a five-month long strike by nearly 500 workers at the Kennedy Space Center. IAM members there include electrical technicians, crane operators and drivers for the giant crawler
Read moreLabor Board Bias Detailed in ILO Complaint A new complaint filed by the AFL-CIO with the International Labor Organization (ILO) http://www.ilo.org/global/lang–en/index.htm charges that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decisions have so severely reduced the freedom of workers to join unions that they constitute a violation of international labor standards. The AFL-CIO charges that NLRB rulings “have
Read moreIAM Journal Offers ‘Choices’ The 2008 presidential election takes center stage in the latest issue of the IAM Journal, the award-winning publication of the Machinists Union. After extensive polling revealed that one-third of the IAM membership routinely votes Republican and two-thirds regularly cast ballots for Democratic candidates, the IAM took the historic step of endorsing
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