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IAM 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
Read moreKennedy Space Center Negotiations to Resume IAM negotiators announced today that mediated negotiations with United Space Alliance (USA) will resume next week in a bid to resolve the 134-day strike by nearly 500 members of Local 2061 over pensions and health care costs. Negotiations will take place Oct. 29 in Cape Canaveral, FL, and are
Read moreLet the Amtrak Countdown Begin After nearly eight years of frustrating and fruitless negotiations, the National Mediation Board (NMB) last week proffered arbitration to nine rail unions, including the IAM, in a move to resolve contracts between Amtrak and nearly 7,000 union rail workers. Key issues in the long running dispute include retroactive wage increases,
Read moreCongress Turns Up Heat on United Space Alliance Members of the United States Congress are turning up the heat on NASA and the United Space Alliance (USA) to stop their push to gut the economic security of America’s space program workforce. Last June, USA forced IAM members of Local 2061 at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center
Read moreShowdown Looms on Bush SCHIP Veto House lawmakers will vote October 18 on whether or not to override President Bush’s veto of legislation to increase funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $35 billion over five years. The highly popular program is currently being funded by a stop-gap bill in effect through
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