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Critics who bash Congress and the Obama administration’s stimulus and jobs programs as the cause of the nation’s high deficits ignore the main sources of the wave of red ink: the Bush-era tax cuts, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economic downturn. A new study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Read moreThe National Mediation Board (NMB) is currently weighing a request from the IAM to declare that Delta and Northwest are operating as a single carrier in the Fleet Service and Passenger Service classifications. A single carrier ruling by the NMB will initiate the final steps in the government’s formal process leading to secret ballot elections for
Read moreWhen workers at Americanos USA, LLC in Laredo, TX voted ‘yes’ in May to join the IAM, they joined with IAM members across Texas and California, culminating in a first contract for IAM members at all nine Americanos locations. More than 150 members ratified the new three-year agreement by a 9 to 1 margin. The
Read moreMedical Attendants who provide non-emergency patient transfers at Ontario Patient Transfer’s (OPT) base in Kitchener, ON, are the newest members of Local 1295 in Canada. The newest members bring the total number of members at OPT to 182 at locations in Hamilton, Kitchener, Winchester and Arnprior. “These workers were looking for representation and a champion
Read moreDelta Air Lines today joined the Air Transport Association (ATA) in appealing a federal judge’s ruling denying their bid to overturn a fair election process in union representation elections. “Delta is trying to distract its employees and the Machinists Union with baseless legal challenges,” said IAM Transportation General Vice President Robert Roach, Jr. “This further
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