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June 15, 2005 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted 266-158 this week to increase Amtrak funding by $214 million. While still short of the total funding Amtrak needs to adequately maintain the nation’s passenger rail infrastructure or expand service, the extra money avoids the complete shutdown of Amtrak being pursued by the Bush Administration.
Read moreJune 15, 2006 – Cheap imports from China carried a high price for 186 members at the iconic Winchester rifle facility after parent company US Repeating Arms closed the New Haven plant on March 31, 2006. Former Winchester workers spoke out at a Connecticut AFL-CIO rally in support of an unfair trade practices petition filed
Read moreStaff Conference Focuses on Organizing More than 600 attendees at the IAM Staff Conference in Denver, CO, focused on ways to ramp up organizing efforts and honored IAM Locals and District that met organizng goals. IP Tom Buffenbarger and GST Warren Mart delivered back-to-back presentations at the 2006 IAM Staff Conference in Denver, CO that
Read moreJune 13, 2006 – Last week’s departure of former GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay may be good news for workers in sweatshops in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. Democratic Congressman George Miller (D-CA) has reintroduced legislation to extend U.S. labor laws to the Commonwealth. For years, DeLay personally blocked any effort to close
Read moreJune 13, 2006 – IAM members at Local 898 at Vance Air Force Base near Enid, OK ratified a new three-year agreement. The members work for Computer Sciences Corporation and Trend Western, two of the base’s primary contractors. CSC and Trend Western employees do a variety of jobs at Vance, from groundskeeping to aircraft maintenance.
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