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  • iMail , News March 2, 2010

    Pratt & Whitney Appeals Court Decision

    Pratt & Whitney is adding insult to injury by filing an appeal of the court decision castigating them for failing to make an effort to preserve work in Connecticut. The appeal comes a day after the company announced layoffs in the locations they were barred by court order from closing. Since last July, Pratt and United

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  • iMail , News March 2, 2010

    Allison Beck Named to FMCS Position

    IAM retired General Counsel Allison Beck has been appointed as Deputy Director for National and International Programs of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), effective March 2, 2010. In announcing her appointment, FMCS Director George Cohen said that Beck “shares my vision of an agency dedicated to proactively offering a variety of services all

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  • iMail , News March 2, 2010

    Ontario Machinists Expand in Hospitality Sector

    Twenty employees of the Days Inn in London, ON, are the latest hospitality workers to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The certification of housekeeping and maintenance staff at the 150-room hotel in the Forest City marks the second successful organizing campaign in the hospitality sector for the Machinists in 2010. Earlier

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  • News March 2, 2010

    Reid, Baucus unveil new $150B jobs bill

    By Ben Pershing Even as a short-term package of aid to the unemployed remains stalled in the Senate, Democratic leaders unveiled the latest piece of their jobs agenda Monday — $150 billion worth of extensions to expiring federal programs and tax breaks. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) objected again Monday to Democrats’ efforts to move one-month

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  • iMail , News February 25, 2010

    UCubed Catching Hold and Gaining Momentum

    Ur Union of Unemployed, or UCubed, generated record-breaking numbers over the last 24 hours, with membership jumping from almost 480 job activists yesterday to well over 800 today. Ninety-six new cubes were created within the same time period, adding to the 84 cubes already created (six people within the same zip code make one cube).

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