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More than two dozen Flight Attendants from Delta Air Lines took part in a three-day planning session at the Winpisinger Center to promote their ongoing campaign to win IAM representation. Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants met this week at the Winpisinger Center for three days of organizing training, strategy sessions and planning. The training began
Read moreYou still have time to apply for a 2013 Union Plus Scholarship. The deadline for applications is January 31. This year’s application is entirely online. Scholarships are from $500 to $4,000 and do not require repayment. Since 1992, some 2,200 families have benefited from the Union Plus Scholarship Program, which has awarded union members and
Read moreWorkers from the IKEA Warehouse/Distribution Center in Savannah, GA, celebrate a first contract after organizing to join the IAM last summer. Sixty-two workers at the IKEA Warehouse/Distribution Center in Savannah, GA, are celebrating a new year with a first IAM Contract after organizing to join the Machinists Union last summer. The three-year agreement gives raises
Read moreLast month, President Obama issued an executive order bringing an end to the more than two-year federal pay freeze. Effective March 27th, 2013, federal workers will see a pay increase of 0.5 percent; a small sum, but more than anything federal employees have seen since 2010. In the closing days of the 112th Congress, however,
Read moreThe idea that the American economy is sluggish because of a ballooning federal budget deficit is a complete and total farce, says co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, Robert Kuttner. The real reason, according to Kuttner and many economists is that the economy is slow because of high unemployment. “For months, we have
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