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National Labor College Honors IAM Graduates Eleven IAM members who earned Bachelor of Arts degrees from the AFL-CIO’s National Labor College (NLC) were honored this weekend at the school’s commencement ceremony in Silver Spring, MD. Overall, ninety graduates were honored at the ceremony, which marked the NLC’s 10th annual commencement. “We are extremely proud of
Read moreEndorse Obama? Not the Right Time “Now is not the right time for the IAM to endorse Senator Barack Obama,” said IAM President Tom Buffenbarger in a letter to IAM members after voting “present” in the AFL-CIO presidential endorsement process. Also declining to endorse Obama for President was the Transportation Communications Union (TCU). Other unions
Read moreHawker Beechcraft Plans Mexican Assembly Plant In a move that will send economic shock waves across Kansas for generations, Hawker Beechcraft is planning to build a tip-to-tail aircraft assembly plant in Chihuahua, Mexico. The company expects to move from manufacturing small parts and sub-assemblies to full aircraft assembly after 2012. The five-year plan, code named
Read moreGAO Sustains Boeing Tanker Protest They said it couldn’t happen. The industry experts and defense analysts who track the aerospace industry said there was no way the Government Accounting Office (GAO) would ever recommend an overhaul of the $35 billion tanker contract that was awarded earlier this year to EADS/Airbus over Boeing. But the so-called
Read moreIAM Slams Tanker Accounting Errors The IAM renewed its call for the controversial tanker refueling contract to be reversed following news that the U.S. Air Force awarded the $35 billion contract based on errors that favored the Airbus tanker over a version of Boeing’s 767. “This process has been deeply flawed from the beginning,” said
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