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  • iMail , News March 9, 2010

    Pax River Unit Ready for Contract Talks

    In preparation for bargaining a new agreement with DynCorp at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Southern MD, the Local 4 Negotiating Committee completed an intense week of training in the Negotiation Preparation for Bargaining Committees Class at the William W. Winpisinger Education & Technology Center in Hollywood, MD. The Local 4 members at Pax

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  • iMail , News March 9, 2010

    Members Ratify Pact with Lockheed Space Systems

    More than 420 IAM members at a pair of Lockheed Martin Space Systems locations voted to accept a new three-year contract. The members are from District 112, Local 2772, in Kings Bay, GA, and District 160, Local 282, in Seattle, WA. The contract includes general wage increases of three percent on March 1, 2010, three percent in 2011, and 2.5 percent

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  • News March 4, 2010

    Rescue Package for Jobless Americans

    There are rumblings in Washington of legislation to jumpstart the U.S. economy through a targeted jobs creation bill focused on expanding public service employment. Such a program could mean the creation of millions of new jobs and a dawn to this historic jobs crisis that, since December 2007, has created midnight in America. More than

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  • iMail , News March 4, 2010

    Mixed Messages from Boeing CEO

    The CEO of Boeing’s Commercial Airplane division, Jim Albaugh, sat down recently for a lengthy interview with Seattle Times reporter Dominic Gates and promptly took credit for driving the decision to build a second 787 assembly line in South Carolina. Albaugh then admitted that the company had outsourced far too much work and declared his

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  • iMail , News March 4, 2010

    Foreign Energy Firms Reap Stimulus Windfall

      Four U.S. Senators are calling on the Obama administration to suspend a federal grant program that has paid out more than $1 billion in stimulus funds to foreign manufacturers. U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Bob Casey (D-PA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Jon Tester (D-MT) urged the Obama administration to suspend the program indefinitely

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