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The first salvos in the battle for workers’ pensions have been fired, and the war could be coming to the U.S. Congress this month. Detroit is trying to saddle the city’s bankruptcy on the backs of its 21,000 retirees by slashing their pensions. The Mayor of Chicago, where the costs of public pensions are merely
Read moreCorinne Demler The IAM congratulates Corinne Demler, daughter of IAM member Jill Gaskell of Local 276, Blanchardville, WI, on winning a $5,000 AFL-CIO/Union Plus “Dreams of Jobs and Freedom” Scholarship. The AFL-CIO and Union Plus created the scholarship to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered
Read moreThe National Mediation Board (NMB) has scheduled a “status conference” with the IAM and US Airways in Washington D.C. on Tuesday September 10, 2013 regarding the Mechanic and Related and Fleet Service negotiations. The purpose of the meeting with the NMB is to discuss remaining issues and both parties’ positions on these issues. “We are
Read moreTom Perez, the former Maryland Secretary of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, is congratulated by Vice President Joe Biden after his swearing-in ceremony. (Credit: U.S. Labor Department) Labor Secretary Tom Perez said he will make job creation his top priority as he was officially sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden this week. Perez inherits a
Read moreFormer IAM member Phil Bradley at a monument marking the site of an historic plane crash in 1959. Bradley was the sole survivor of the crash and erected the monument at his own expense. Retired IAM Organizer and sole survivor of the historic Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crash of 1959, Phil Bradley, died August 23,
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