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Bush Flogs Trade Pact With Columbia Ignoring a blood-soaked record of human rights violations that includes murder, kidnapping and torture of trade union leaders, President George Bush is urging Congress to approve a free trade agreement with Columbia, calling it essential to America’s national security interests. The bid by the Bush administration to secure yet
Read moreTens of thousands of U.S. jobs are at stake and your help is needed now. The DOD announced in February the awarding of a $40 billion to $100 billion contract for the construction of Air Force refueling tankers to Northrop Grumann and the European firm EADS, which makes Airbus. Presidential nominee John McCain played a
Read moreMachinists Slam Obama Tanker Comments “Senator Barack Obama just walked away from another fight for American jobs,” declared IAM President Tom Buffenbarger, after the Illinois Democrat failed to speak up for U.S. workers affected by the refueling tanker scandal. “This is becoming his trademark, but never before has he done so with 44,000 American jobs
Read moreApril Sister of the Month Sheila Hammond Sister Sheila Hammond became a member of a union in 1968, when she began her in-flight career with Trans Texas Airlines (later renamed Texas International). Within one year she was a member of several union committees and in 1970 won her first elected office. In 1982, Texas International
Read moreConnecticut Workers Protest Tanker Contract At a rally in East Hartford, CT, this week, union members, business leaders, elected officials and workers from across Connecticut voiced their collective outrage over the awarding of a $40 billion Air Force tanker contract to Airbus and Northrop Grumman. “If we don’t maintain our industrial base and skilled workforce,
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