This is the official website of IAM Local Lodge 1005. Please check here often for the latest LL 1005 news, updates from the IAM, and an overview on industry events.

Last update: August 25, 2010

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Local Lodge E-Board Meeting  September 15th,  2010 at  4:30 p.m.   

Stewards Training  at 9:00 a.m.  September 18th

Local Lodge meeting is on September 18th,  2010 at 10:00 a.m.

Retirees Business Meeting September 1st,  2010 at 10:00 a.m.

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           SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL UNION AUTO REPAIR AND AUTO BODY SHOPS

 

Auto Repair in Oregon

In and Out Auto Care

610 E. 1st Street

Gladstone, OR  97027

503-786-0700

Off I-205 in Gladstone, behind the DMV

Union Special:  10% off Parts and Labor

 

Auto Repair in Washington

Marv’s Auto Repair

6016 N.E. 88th St.

Vancouver, WA  98668

360-574-3961

Off I-205 near Padden Parkway

 

Auto Body and Collision Repair

Todd’s Auto Body, Inc.

15615 Fourth Plain Rd.

Vancouver, WA  98682

360-892-0620

Near 164th St. 

 

 

WASHINGTON — Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.

To pay for the changes, the legislation includes more than $400 billion in higher taxes over a decade, roughly half of it from a new Medicare payroll tax on individuals with incomes over $200,000 and couples over $250,000. A new excise tax on high-cost insurance policies was significantly scaled back in deference to complaints from organized labor.
 
Thus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by individual citizens while being exempted from many of the responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations that they have the same right as any individual to influence the government in their own interest pits the individual citizen against the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal voice in the political debates surrounding important issues.

David C. Korten, in When Corporations Rule the World

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson."

Franklin D. Roosevelt in a letter to Woodrow Wilson's closest adviser, Col. Edward M. House dated November 21, 1933

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
 

 

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power — Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

 

We had to fight to get where we are today!

1935  National Labor Relations Act and Social Security Act passed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) formed within AFL
1936  AFL and CIO create labor's Non-Partisan League and help President Roosevelt win re-election to a second term
1937  Auto Workers win sit-down strike against General Motors in Flint, Mich. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters wins contract with Pullman Co.
1938  Fair Labor Standards Act establishes first minimum wage and 40-hour week Congress of industrial Organizations forms as an independent federation

 

 

This link is for Freightliner/Western-Star/Daimler employees that have been laid off.  Trade Act info.

 

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LL 1005
503-238-5550

Email:
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LL1005 Web Steward
Dwain Panian

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