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Chrysler recently announced it will be freezing pension plans for salaried workers, further expanding the trend once reserved for employers claiming extreme financial distress. By December 31, 2013, some 8,000 salaried Chrysler workers who have earned a pension will no longer accrue additional benefits. While they will get to keep the pension benefits they’ve already
Read moreIAM President Tom Buffenbarger became the first union official from North America to address the Czech Metalworkers Federation. Speaking in Prague as the first international union president from North America to address the Czech Metalworkers’ Federation (OS KOVO), IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger praised the federation’s successful effort to restore independent trade unionism to the
Read moreA new website run by labor-rights group Working America is making it easier than ever for employees from almost any industry to organize and improve their workplaces. FixMyJob.com offers an interactive online tutorial for workers who are “feeling overworked, underpaid, unsafe, or disrespected by [their] boss.” Users can create a free personal account that
Read moreIAM Local Lodge 99 member Spencer Smirl, left, holds the IAM flag with another participant of the Fiennes Antarctic crossing expedition. The six-month journey will go from Crown Bay on the continent’s east shore to the South Pole and then to Ross Island on the continent’s south shore. IAM Local Lodge 99 member Spencer Smirl
Read moreGOP lawmakers around the country have embarked on a campaign to ban all bills requiring mandatory paid sick leave for all workers. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) recently signed the so-called “preemption” bill, blocking a proposed sick-leave ballot initiative currently being considered in Orange County – and any future county, for that matter. The Sunshine
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