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“Everyone agrees that the recession is over,” said Larry Summers, President Obama’s top economic advisor, on December 13. Yet December’s unemployment numbers announced last Friday suggest otherwise — especially the ‘real unemployment’ figure. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the official unemployment rate is 10%, a figure which itself caused a major headline to
Read moreThe IAM Executive Council voted unanimously to oppose any health care reform legislation that is funded by taxing the value of workers’ existing health care benefits. “ For decades, IAM members exchanged substantial wage increases for the best possible health insurance,” said IAM President Tom Buffenbarger. “Now, in a bizarre turn of events, their insurance
Read moreAs the fight to shape a final health care bill moves through Congress, working families can help stop the effort to tax their health care benefits by joining millions of fellow workers in the AFL-CIO’s National Call-In Blitz to the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 13, 2010. Call your Representative using the toll-free
Read moreThe value and power of an IAM contract was on prominent display in a recent ruling from the New York State Department of Labor (DOL), settling a dispute over how often IAM members at Northwest Airlines in New York would be paid. The dispute began when Delta management notified IAM members at Kennedy and LaGuardia
Read moreThe unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent for the month of December – but only because more people dropped out of the workforce. The U.S. Department of Labor reports the economy shed 85,000 jobs last month. But, had 661,000 people – discouraged by the downward economy – not given up looking for work, the
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