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During the past two weeks, the IAM’s organizing campaign at Swedwood USA, an IKEA subsidiary in Danville VA, has received extensive media coverage in IKEA’s home country of Sweden. The coverage included a feature story in a large monthly magazine and numerous stories in some of Sweden’s largest daily papers, as well as a 15-minute
Read moreFollowing a lengthy strike authorization meeting, Machinists union members of District 837 who are employed at the Boeing-St. Louis, MO, Defense Systems plant voted by a margin of 99 percent to authorize a strike if the final contract offer from the company is not accepted on June 13, 2010. IAM members at the meeting rose
Read moreMembers of Local 743 in Windsor Locks, CT, have voted overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract with aviation electronics manufacturer Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. The new accord, which covers more than 1,000 members, successfully addressed members’ top concerns. According to District 26 ADBR Jim Parent, the contract includes 2.5 percent pay raises for each of
Read moreThe process of crafting an emergency action plan for reversing the U.S. jobs crisis continues as thousands of UCubed job activists vote on a list of key policy recommendations. The results of the online survey will become the focal point of a nationwide campaign entitled Hire US, America. UCubed members have spent weeks deliberating the
Read moreStanding before more than 600 local and district representatives from the United States and Canada, IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger vowed to do “whatever it takes” to protect and preserve the Machinists union. With more than 36,000 IAM members out of work in the current recession, representatives and staff members were reminded in the strongest
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