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October 12, 2006 – The U.S. trade deficit with China hit a record $22 billion in August, a 15 percent increase from July. China, meanwhile, posted their second-biggest trade surplus ever at $15.3 billion in September. Despite the growing trade gap with China and continued U.S. job loss, the U.S. has yet to take significant
Read moreLocal 273 NFFE-IAM, Federal District 1, members at Fort Sill, Oklahoma are gearing up for a base organizing drive to let fellow federal workers know the benefits of being a NFFE-IAM member. About 1,800 civilian employees at Ft. Sill perform a wide range of jobs, from food preparation to air traffic control. “Federal workers face
Read moreThanks to the diligence of the NFFE-IAM Forest Service Council and its Law Enforcement and Investigations (LEI) Committee, non-exempt Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) will now receive paid meal breaks. LEOs represented by NFFE-IAM Federal District 1 recently notified the Council that they were not being paid during their lunch breaks. The Council’s LEI Committee researched the
Read moreOctober 4, 2006 – Outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas reported job cuts increased drastically last month, topping 100,000 for the first time since last January. Job cuts in September were up 54 percent from August and up 40 percent from the same point last year. Read the entire article here.
Read moreOctober 4, 2006 – A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute has found that China has violated all established currency manipulation standards, causing damaging effects to the U.S. economy. Key findings from the EPI Report include: • The bilateral U.S.-China surplus was $203 billion for 2005. This total has risen by $119 billion over
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