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There’s still time to get an entry into the 2010 IAM Photo Contest. Don’t pass up the chance to have your lodge members featured in the 2011 IAM Calendar. The deadline for entries for the 2010 IAM Photo Contest has been extended to July 9, 2010. Winning photos will be featured in the 2011 IAM
Read moreMembers of Local 839 in Wichita, KS, will vote June 25 on a tentative agreement that has the potential to reshape labor relations throughout the aerospace industry. The proposed 10-year agreement for 6,000 members employed at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, provides unprecedented levels of job security in an industry that is still reeling from a
Read moreMembers of District 837 in St. Louis, MO, will vote June 27 on a revised offer from the Boeing Company that includes minor changes to the original offer while retaining language that eliminates defined benefit pension benefits for employees hired after January 2012. “The Boeing Company’s contract offer that you rejected on June 13 will
Read moreA new poll shows both Democrats and Republicans face a deeply unhappy electorate who are unified in their concern over the loss of American manufacturing jobs and the lack of work being done on the issue by Congress. The poll, conducted by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) found the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs
Read moreFormer astronaut and retired U.S. Senator John Glenn joins Neil Armstrong and a score of other legendary astronauts in voicing concern over the United States’ plan to end its space program. MSNBC reports that Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, believes continuing the program is the best use of taxpayer money, rather than paying
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