International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Jobs Needed Now

Mike Lux | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business


Mike Lux

Without a more aggressive focus on creating good jobs in manufacturing and infrastructure, which have a bigger multiplier effect than any other kind of jobs, our economy will continue to sputter.

"Transplant" Automakers Get Over $3.6 Billion in Subsidies; More Unions, Ralph Nader Comment

Steve Parker | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business


Steve Parker

This post has the latest news on the billions in subsidies which off-shore transplant carmakers have received from state and local governments.

Boeing Machinists Strike Continues Cautiously In Company's Success

New Yotk Times | Micheline Maynard | Posted 10.11.2008 | Business


The machinists' union walkout against the Boeing Company does not appear to fit the usual script for a modern-day labor showdown. In struggling indu...

The Myth Of The Wussy Poet

John Lundberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


John Lundberg

While introducing Hillary Clinton at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio last week, Tom Buffenbarger, President of the International Association of Machinists...