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IAM Strikes Boeing Space and Defense Systems Nearly 1500 Machinists are now on strike against the Space and Defense Systems unit of Boeing. Five of the locations are in California, with two located in Huntington Beach, and one each in Torrance, Edwards AFB and Vandenberg; the sixth location is Cape Canaveral in Florida. In addition
Read moreTom, thanks for returning to Wichita. It took real courage to write that book. And it takes real integrity to criticize the powers that be. Your book asks the question “what’s the matter with Kansas?” My own answer is “NOT A DAMN THING.” The problem, as you have correctly and convincingly pointed out in your
Read more‘What’s the Matter With Kansas? ’ IP Tom Buffenbarger and author Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter With Kansas?, kicked off the 2005 IAM Communications Conference in Wichita, Kansas talking to nearly 70 delegates about social class, religion and the issues that lead voters in states like Kansas to consistently vote against their own
Read moreStrike Looms at Boeing Space & Defense Units Nearly 1,500 IAM members at seven Boeing facilities in California, Alabama and Florida are poised to strike the company’s space and defense division following contract offers that slashed retiree benefits, raised health care premiums, and failed to include adequate pension increases. The so-called “final offer” from Boeing
Read moreRosa Parks, Spark of the Civil Rights Movement, Dead at 92 Rosa Parks, the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus and whose subsequent arrest marked the start of the modern civil rights movement, has died at the age of 92. Parks’ protest in 1955 triggered
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