Labor
IAM Boeing workers narrowly approve 8-year contract extension
January 7, 2014Machinists who work for Boeing in the Puget Sound area, around Portland, Ore., and in Wichita, Kansas, narrowly approved an eight-year contract extension with Boeing.
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Today in labor history: Poet Carl Sandburg is born
January 6, 2014On January 6, 1878: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois.
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Boeing continues to play one state off against another
January 3, 2014SEATTLE (PAI)-Members of the International Association of Machinists in the Pacific Northwest are voting today on an 8-year contract extension offer from Boeing that many are unhappy with.
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Today in labor history: Petition sent to Congress to end Fugitive Slave Act
January 2, 2014On January 2, 1800 the Philadelphia black community petitioned Congress to rescind the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.
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More than 400,000 New Jerseyans get a raise January 1
January 2, 2014New Jersey is one of the 13 states that saw a bump in the minimum wage starting Jan. 1.The minimum wage became $8.25, up one dollar from $7.25.
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