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IAM members have a unique opportunity to express their support for stronger U.S. content requirements in export transactions that are supported by the U.S. Export Import Bank. The Ex-Im Bank was created during the Roosevelt administration to support U.S. exports that support U.S. jobs by providing billions in annual loan guarantees. While the Ex-Im Bank
Read moreHouse Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has introduced a 2014 fiscal year budget that would deeply cut health care and education spending that middle class families depend on. The plan also provides higher subsidies for shipping jobs overseas and bigger tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. Republicans would pay for the budget by
Read moreTwenty-six workers at Spirit AeroSystems in Chanute, KS who manufacture small parts and assemblies used in Boeing aircraft voted for IAM Representation recently. The vote follows last month’s signing of a first contract by workers at the Spirit facility in Kinston, NC. “Having seen the joint partnership agreements in Wichita and Kinston, NC, the people
Read moreRyan Soto U.S. Army soldier Ryan Soto, son of IAM Local 698 members Mark and Robin Ward, tells a riveting story of the attack that left him with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a new Machinists News Network video. A third generation Airborne Infantryman, Soto was on the final mission
Read moreThe IAM has launched a campaign to repeal the recent decision by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) to allow knives and other dangerous objects aboard aircraft. Representatives Eric Swalwell, Michael Grimm and Bennie Thompson authored a letter to TSA Director John Pistole demanding the agency reverse course on its dangerous move to allow knives aboard
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