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  • iMail , News August 9, 2011

    Senate Passes Temporary FAA Funding Measure

    The IAM applauds the Senate leadership for rising above the political games on Capitol Hill and passing a bi-partisan compromise to end the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). As a result, over 4,000 FAA employees and tens of thousands of airport construction workers can go back to work. The short-term extension expires

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  • iMail , News August 9, 2011

    Wisconsin Votes Today on Recall Targets

    With control of the state Senate in the balance, Wisconsin voters go to the polls today in an unprecedented recall election that could put the brakes on GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-worker agenda. The six Republicans targeted today are Walker’s closest allies; the ones who steered his move to strip collective bargaining rights from public

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  • iMail , News August 9, 2011

    Make Plans to Attend 2011 IAM Automotive Conference

    The 2011 IAM Automotive Conference is scheduled for October 15-18 at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Registration will take place Saturday, October 15, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m. and again on Sunday morning from 8:00 to 9:00. The Conference begins Sunday, October 16, at 9:00 a.m. and will conclude no

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  • News August 9, 2011

    The Obama Administration opposes a bill to rein in the NLRB

    Teenagers in the 1960s listened to Beatles records backwards in search of hidden meanings—a trick akin to the task of deciphering President Obama’s statements on the battle between Boeing and the National Labor Relations Board. Since the NLRB sued the airplane company in April to prevent it from building a new plant in South Carolina,

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  • News August 9, 2011

    Miller: Issa Subpoena of NLRB Poses Threat to Private Parties’ Constitutional Rights, Integrity of Ongoing Trial

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, issued the following statement after Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issued a broad subpoena to the National Labor Relation Board’s Acting General Counsel demanding all documents referring

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