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An article posted on The Hill website warns that sequestration could kill four or five F-35 fighter jets in 2014 if the across-the-board cuts are not averted. The second round of sequestration cuts, expected to take effect January 15, 2014, threaten to reduce the Pentagon’s budget by $52 billion. Under the first round of cuts,
Read moreFrom left, IAM Local 126 Directing Business Representative Joe Pijanowski presents Local 126 member Tom Symmes with signed settlement documents, alongside Local 126 Steward Juan Fuentes. Symmes recently returned to work after being wrongfully discharged from LPB Manufacturing in Cicero, IL. Here’s another great example of why it pays to have a union contract. IAM
Read moreOuch! It’s fair to say billionaire Pete Peterson’s anti-deficit lobbying group Fix the Debt got more than it bargained for when the organization recently decided to hold a Q&A session on Twitter. The fearmongering campaign was trying to sell young taxpayers of the “Twitterverse” on its agenda for cutting grandma’s and grandpa’s Social Security and
Read moreThe next chicken you eat could take a detour to China before ending up at your local grocery store—unless you help Roger Simmermaker, president of IAM Local 610 of Cape Canaveral, FL, stop a bad idea in its tracks. A post on Simmermaker’s “How Americans Can Buy American” blog exposes a recent U.S. Department of
Read moreStanding at the site of the April 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, families hold pictures of their loved ones still to be traced. A group of survivors of the collapse say they are encouraged by news of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety, a landmark agreement that aims to improve factory safety
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