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An arbitrator recently ruled that members of Local 735 in Nashville, TN, were not properly compensated by their employer Vought Aircraft, and awarded them more than $1 million in back vacation pay. In September 2008, after months of negotiations for a new contract, Local 735 members rejected Vought’s final proposal and voted to strike. The
Read moreIncoming GOP governors in Wisconsin and Ohio have refused to accept more than $1.2 billion in federal stimulus money slated for high-speed rail projects, a move that will cost those states thousands of high-skill, high-value jobs. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood confirmed that funds originally slated to go to Wisconsin and Ohio will now be
Read moreMany lawmakers who campaigned ferociously against the Obama administration’s health care legislation are far less vocal when it comes to their own government-subsidized health insurance. According to Americans United for Change (AUC), 21 new GOP members of Congress who opposed heath care reform will become the beneficiaries of a government-subsidized health insurance plan provided to
Read moreThe IAM and District 143 today announced a tentative agreement with Alaska Airlines that includes job guarantees for the carrier’s 2,600 Clerical, Office and Passenger Service (COPS) employees. “This agreement provides our members the wages they deserve and the job security they demanded,” said Jackie Fay, District 143 General Chairperson and chief negotiator. “The IAM
Read moreUnion of Unemployed leaders and activists are being urged to ramp up their efforts to let Congress know how the latest tax cut package fails to address the plight of the nation’s long-term unemployed. “Congress is giving $540 billion – over half a trillion dollars – in tax breaks to corporations and wealthy Americans,” said
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