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U.S. Jobless Figure Tops 11 Million The U.S. economy is in a free-fall and taking millions of U.S. jobs down with it. The Department of Labor reports the unemployment rate soared to 7.2 percent last month – the highest since World War II. According to the department, 2.6 million people lost their jobs last year
Read moreNMB Rejects Delta’s Rush to Judgment In an announcement with significant implications for thousands of employees at Delta and Northwest Airlines, the National Mediation Board (NMB) this week issued a single carrier ruling for pilots, flight dispatchers and meteorologists only at the recently merged carrier. The decision is a major setback for management at Delta,
Read moreVought Threatens Tennessee Strikers With less than a week before federally supervised negotiations are set to resume, Vought Aircraft Industries in Nashville, TN, took a page from the union-busters handbook and threatened to permanently replace any union member who refused to cross picket lines. The strike by nearly 1,000 members of IAM Local 735 was
Read moreJanuary 2009 Sister of the Month Kathy S. Petersen Kathy Petersen is a 12 year member of IAM Local Lodge 839 in Wichita, Kansas. Sister Kathy was overwhelmingly elected President after having served as the lodge’s Vice President. She is the first woman to hold each of those offices in the history of the local.
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