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February 05, 2010 – In a telling example of how the government’s official employment numbers don’t paint a reliable picture of the nation’s economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today announced the unemployment rate fell from 10.0 percent to 9.7 percent. Meanwhile, the same department reports that 20,000 more jobs were lost in January.
Read moreThe National Mediation Board (NMB) this week mailed telephone and Internet voting instructions to nearly 100 Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines Flight Simulator Technicians (Sim Techs), opening a three-week voting period in the first IAM election since Delta acquired Northwest. “Voter participation is critical in this election,” said Transportation GVP Robert Roach, Jr. “NMB
Read moreJust one year after executives in the troubled Financial Products Unit at AIG split $168 million in “retention bonuses,” the same group is poised to get another $100 million in bonus money. The Wall Street Journal cites the Financial Products Group as “responsible for the soured trades that precipitated the government rescue of the company.”
Read moreThe IAM is calling on President Obama to proceed with caution during the administration’s ongoing export control review, and to not assume that easing export controls will necessarily lead to U.S. job creation. “While current export controls are in need of reform, we must be mindful that policies that encourage or facilitate further outsourcing of
Read moreLong-time Ohio State Council of Machinists President Harold Langford of Galion, OH passed away today at the age of 77. Langford, a 54-year member, was also serving as Local 1151’s President. One of the IAM’s most veteran and treasured activists, Langford joined the IAM in 1956 when he went to work for Galion Iron Works.
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