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  • iMail , News March 9, 2010

    FedEx Friend Threatens to Block FAA Reform Bill

    Move over Jim Bunning, another GOP Senator has threatened to single-handedly stop legislation that benefits American working families. Tennessee Republican Bob Corker has vowed to block the comprehensive FAA Reauthorization bill if it contains language that ends the advantage non-union FedEx has over rival UPS. FedEx is based in Memphis TN. In 1996, FedEx won

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  • iMail , News March 9, 2010

    Union of Unemployed Warns of Endless Recession

    In the absence of economic policies that generate 450,000 jobs per month for at least 60 months, the U.S. will remain mired in a recession that will linger for years if not decades. To give the economy the traction it needs, Ur Union of Unemployed (UCubed) is calling for the immediate establishment of a public

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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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