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Endorse Obama? Not the Right Time “Now is not the right time for the IAM to endorse Senator Barack Obama,” said IAM President Tom Buffenbarger in a letter to IAM members after voting “present” in the AFL-CIO presidential endorsement process. Also declining to endorse Obama for President was the Transportation Communications Union (TCU). Other unions
Read moreHawker Beechcraft Plans Mexican Assembly Plant In a move that will send economic shock waves across Kansas for generations, Hawker Beechcraft is planning to build a tip-to-tail aircraft assembly plant in Chihuahua, Mexico. The company expects to move from manufacturing small parts and sub-assemblies to full aircraft assembly after 2012. The five-year plan, code named
Read moreJune 19, 2008 – District Lodge 947 welcomed 21 new members into the IAM after they voted overwhelmingly for the union. The members are employees of First Transit in Los Angeles, a division of First Group, Inc., which has taken a neutral stance with regard to organizing. “Congratulations to DBR Richard Sanchez, and a special thanks
Read moreGAO Sustains Boeing Tanker Protest They said it couldn’t happen. The industry experts and defense analysts who track the aerospace industry said there was no way the Government Accounting Office (GAO) would ever recommend an overhaul of the $35 billion tanker contract that was awarded earlier this year to EADS/Airbus over Boeing. But the so-called
Read moreIAM Slams Tanker Accounting Errors The IAM renewed its call for the controversial tanker refueling contract to be reversed following news that the U.S. Air Force awarded the $35 billion contract based on errors that favored the Airbus tanker over a version of Boeing’s 767. “This process has been deeply flawed from the beginning,” said
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