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With the U.S. light aircraft industry still in a financial tailspin, it’s hard to comprehend the recent Air Force decision favoring a Brazilian plane-maker over Wichita, KS-based Hawker Beechcraft for a $1 billion contract to build a new light air support aircraft. The issue of using U.S. tax dollars to create aerospace jobs in Brazil
Read moreContract negotiations are set to resume for members of District 165, Local 623 who are employed at Polar Tank in Opole, MN. The members voted overwhelmingly last week to strike after the company proposed contract language that would increase outsourcing, compromise seniority provisions and job security. “The company proposal guaranteed that our members would vote
Read moreUCubed needs your help in collecting 5,000 signatures for its new online petition to send Congress a lump of coal for the upcoming holiday. “Congress has been acting like bad little children squabbling all year long,” says the petition. “They’ve done little to help the 29 million jobless Americans get back to
Read moreBrotherhood Outdoors, the outdoor TV series of the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA) is a finalist in the 2011 Sportsman Choice Awards. The show, which showcases hardworking union members on hunting and fishing adventures, has been nominated for the categories of Best Fish and Best Combination (hunting/fishing) Show. Winners of the Sportsman Choice Awards are decided
Read moreA 68-year-old Wall Street veteran echoes UCubed in calling on President Obama to create a 21st century version of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration (WPA). Leon Cooperman’s 9-point plan, made public alongside an open letter from the tycoon to the president, includes a call for a peacetime WPA effort to rebuild U.S. infrastructure. UCubed
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