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Friday,
February 15, 2002
IAM-UAL
Mechanics Negotiations to Resume
With less than a week
remaining before a Feb. 20 strike deadline, IAM leaders will sit down
with United Airlines in an effort to hammer out a new deal before the
30-day cooling off period expires.
Earlier this week, the 13,000-member mechanic and related group voted to
reject an offer from United containing terms drafted by a Presidential
Emergency Board (PEB). “The PEB’s recommendations fell short of what
we felt we could achieve in direct negotiations,” said lead negotiator
and District 141-M president Scotty Ford.
The prospect of unwanted congressional involvement in the airline
negotiations diminished following a lobbying blitz by IAM members who
contacted their representatives in droves urging ‘hand’s off’
union members’ collective bargaining rights. “My
advice to Congress and the President remains the same,” repeated IP
Buffenbarger. “Stay out of this and we will get it done.”
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District 141M
NY
Die Sinkers First With New Microsite
IAM Die Sinkers Local DS
490, representing skilled workers at American Axle & Manufacturing
in Tonawanda, NY, is the first local lodge to take advantage of the
IAM’s free website hosting service introduced last month.
The upstate New York local now has their own website capable of
providing instant local and international union news with additional web
pages containing local meeting times and a roster of local officers. The
simplified website also has a one-page history of the local and photos
of Local 490 Die Sinkers at work.
More than 100 local lodges have signed up for the IAM’s Micro
Site Service. Locals can select from a number of pre-designed websites
and using a simplified content management program, a local web steward
can add or remove content by means of the basic cut and paste procedure.
“It was easy to set up, and there was no cost,” said web
steward Jeff Fox, who maintains the Die Sinkers’ new Microsite. “Any
local wanting a web site for posting basic information should look into
this program.”
Take a look: http://ds490.goiam.org
Amtrak
Reform Council Calls for Breakup
The
Amtrak Reform Council (ARC) released its so-called “restructuring
plan” this week for the nation’s passenger rail system. As predicted
by Rail Labor four years ago, the ARC is committed to the destruction of
Amtrak and submitted a plan calling for privatization of the passenger
rail system in the United States.
Rail
Labor has serious concerns about the ARC’s plan to break up our
national passenger rail system. “Our members, all rail workers, and
the traveling public deserve more than the nonsensical approach proposed
by the ARC majority report,” said General Vice President Robert Roach,
Jr.
Bush
Budget Hammers Seniors
Senior citizens are among
the biggest losers if President Bush rams his budget through Congress,
notes George Kourpias, who now leads the Alliance for Retired Americans
(ARA). “Social Security,
Medicare and a prescription drug plan are priority items for most
Americans, but the Bush budget fails to even minimally address these
concerns,” Kourpias said.
Bush still wants to privatize Social Security accounts despite the
painful lessons from the growing Enron scandal, which show that workers
cannot count on a volatile stock market for their retirement security,
Kourpias added. At the same time, President Bush is spending Social
Security/Medicare funds to pay for massive tax cuts, he is backing away
from the already inadequate spending Congress budgeted for a modest drug
plan last year.
Business,
Labor Unite For Health Care
In a rare joint statement,
AFL-CIO President John Sweeny and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and
CEO Thomas Donahue called this week for a unified push to resolve the
health care – a crisis grown so severe
“it endangers the well-being of our nation as a whole.”
“There were 39 million uninsured Americans at the end of 2000, before
the economic downturn began. All indications show the recession is
making a bad situation worse,” Sweeny and Donahue said. “Even during
the economic boom of the 1990s, the number of uninsured grew by 10
million.”
People without insurance “live sicker and die younger,” requiring
treatments “more complicated and expensive than if the problems had
been caught earlier.” The costs of that care are passed along to
providers, insurers, businesses and consumers, pushing medical costs
further beyond the reach of more companies and individuals.
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