Nearly 3,000 members of IAM Local 2003 in Daleville, AL are on strike against Army Fleet Support (AFS) at Fort Rucker after voting to reject a “last, best and final” offer from parent company L3 Communications. IAM members at AFS provide helicopter maintenance, service and training at Fort Rucker under a $2 billion contract from […]
AIM Aerospace Machinists Ratify First Union Contract
IAM District 751 members at AIM Aerospace in Sumner, WA have won 5.6 percent average wage increases plus improved benefits with their first union contract. The workers ratified the contract with a 75 percent yes vote. “This is a good foundation you can build from,” said IAM District 751 Business Representative Brett Coty to AIM workers. […]
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Florida Restaurant Charging Customers For Obamacare Costs That Don’t Exist Yet
A Florida sports bar is now serving its burgers and wings with a side of political controversy, and diners aren’t feeling it. Eight locations of Gator’s Dockside, a popular central Florida sports bar chain, have started tacking on 1 percent “ACA Surcharge” to customers’ bills, CNN Moneyreported Thursday. The Gator Group, which runs the eight locations, […]
Krugman: Obama’s big trade deal shows he’s “weirdly out of touch”
The Obama administration is having a very difficult time convincing Democrats in Congress to support its big trade deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And with his latest column, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman just made the job a little bit harder. While the award-winning economist and best-selling author’s newest isn’t a complete assault on the TPP, it’s not […]
Bob Corker: I Am ‘Public Enemy Number One Of The UAW’
WASHINGTON — The United Auto Workers union may feel that Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) interfered in its election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga earlier this month, but on Thursday the Tennessee senator argued that he had every right to make his controversial statements as workers were casting their votes. “Do I think that public officials […]
Supreme Court considers striking down mandatory public union dues
WASHINGTON– Supreme Court justices debated Tuesday whether teachers and other public employees can be required to pay dues to support a union even if some of them oppose it. Since 1977, the high court has upheld such mandatory union fees, but some justices suggested that they were open to changing course and striking down such […]