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Picket Lines Go Up at Kennedy Space Center Members of Local Lodge 2061 and District 166 who perform Space Shuttle support duties for the United Space Alliance (USA) walked off the job today after USA management proposed a substandard contract offer. The USA is a joint venture formed by Lockheed Martin and the Boeing Company to provide
Read moreClock Ticking for General Electric Nearly 2,400 IAM members in nine states are among 24,000 union members nationwide who are closely following the negotiations between General Electric Co. and the unions’ 13-member Coordinated Bargaining Committee. A so-called “last, best and final offer” from the company is expected before the current contracts expire at midnight on
Read moreMachinists Seek U.S. Manufacturing Policy International President Tom Buffenbarger addressed the Senate Democratic Steering Committee this week and urged lawmakers to treat the nation’s manufacturing crisis like an economic epidemic. “We cannot afford to be anesthetized by incremental improvements in one index or another,” said Buffenbarger. “Since 1999, we have lost over 43,000 manufacturing plants
Read moreStrike Looms at Kennedy Space Center Two countdowns are underway at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, FL. One for the launch scheduled on Friday for NASA’s Space Shuttle and one for a strike deadline for 600 members of Local 2061 in Cocoa, FL. IAM members provide support services for the Shuttle and are
Read moreNorthwest Airlines Emerges From Bankruptcy Northwest Airlines (NWA) today begins operating outside of bankruptcy court protection for the first time in 20 months. While the process has been full of sacrifices and difficult decisions, IAM members fared far better than other employees at the troubled carrier. The IAM is the only union at Northwest to
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