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OCTOBER 6, 2006 – John Greco and John Shea worked as grinders at the old Pratt & Whitney plant in North Haven, Connecticut. But after decades on the job, their lives were cut short after battling brain cancer.
Read moreU.S. Approves Joint Rocket Venture Antitrust regulators at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave the green light this week to the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a $1.06 billion plan by Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co. to merge their rocket building and launch operations. Under the agreement, Boeing’s Delta rockets and Lockheed’s Atlas rockets will
Read moreOCTOBER 5, 2006 – On January 1, 1994, the federal government put into place NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. The idea was to remove the economic borders between America, Mexico and Canada. Unfortunately, it erased much more than borders.
Read moreOCTOBER 4, 2006 - The one thing every session of Congress must do is pass the federal budget. But even that’s not done this year as House and Senate members take a break from Washington between now and the elections. The plan is to reconvene sometime in November to tackle the finances and some of
Read moreNLRB Rules in Kentucky River Cases Overturning nearly sixty years of established precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today issued rulings in the “Kentucky River” cases, setting the stage for the re-classification of tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of workers as “supervisors,” thereby depriving them of the right to union membership. In the
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