Quick links+
Working women in America have a golden opportunity to answer the age-old question; “What do women want?” by taking the 2010 Ask a Working Woman survey. The survey, conducted by Working America and the AFL-CIO takes just minutes to complete and provides an opportunity to describe how you feel about your job, how the recession
Read moreDespite the lack of a U.S. partner and still reeling from a recent rebuke over illegal subsidies by the World Trade Organization (WTO), the European aerospace consortium EADS submitted a bid to replace the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of air refueling tankers. The EADS bid comes within hours of a bid by the Boeing Company
Read moreIAM President Tom Buffenbarger, right, speaks to Local 1746-A members celebrating an appeals court decision upholding an IAM lawsuit that stopped Pratt & Whitney from shipping more than 1,000 jobs out of Connecticut. Joining the rally, from left, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Eastern Territory General Vice President Lynn Tucker, Jr. and District 26
Read moreThe deadline for applications for the IAM Communications Department’s Communicator Course is July 23, 2010. The course is designed for new lodge Communicators, or Communicators who are not publishing websites or newsletters and need help in basic skills such as news writing, internet research, desktop publishing and creating a web page from a template. The
Read moreNASA contractor, United Space Alliance (USA), says it will layoff approximately 15 percent of its workforce on October 1, 2010. USA says it expects to layoff 800 to 1,000 workers at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, 300 to 400 workers near the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX and about 10 in Huntsville, AL. The terminations
Read more