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Congress 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
Read moreNevada Hosts Airline District 141 Convention Thirty-nine local lodges sent nearly 150 delegates from as far as Alaska and Hawaii to Reno, NV, this week for the 58th Annual Convention of District 141, where International President Tom Buffenbarger, Transportation GVP Robert Roach, Jr. and others addressed the challenges and opportunities facing IAM airline members. “This
Read moreClinton’s “Middle Class Express” Rolls Through Iowa Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) kicked off a campaign tour of Iowa on Saturday in a custom-painted bus called the “Middle Class Express.” Emblazoned with “Rebuilding the Road to the Middle Class” across the sides, the tour started in Cedar Rapids, where hundreds of union members and their families
Read moreBush Vetoes Children’s Health Insurance With total disregard to what the majority of Americans want, including members of his own party, President Bush vetoed legislation yesterday that would have provided new funding to cover an additional 4 million of the nation’s neediest children under the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The program, set to
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