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  • News February 7, 2010

    Court to Pratt: ‘Stay Where You Are’

    Judge Hall Rules Cheshire & CARO Moves Violate Union Agreement February 5, 2010 Kensington, CT – Connecticut’s US District Court tonight issued an injunction against Pratt & Whitney, prohibiting them from moving work and equipment out of their Cheshire and East Hartford CARO operations. The decision by Judge Janet Hall sustains a lawsuit brought by

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  • News February 5, 2010

    Employment Data Doesn’t Add Up

    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.

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  • iMail , News February 4, 2010

    Voter Participation Critical in First Delta Election

    The 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

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  • iMail , News February 4, 2010

    New AIG Bonuses Top $100 Million

    Just 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.”

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  • iMail , News February 4, 2010

    IAM Urges Jobs Priority in Export Control Review

    The 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

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