A Diverse House of Labor

September 9, 2011 - The energy is what set the IAM's Inaugural Human Rights Conference apart from others. 

Tuskegee Airmen Honored as Civil Rights Pioneers

This year marks the 70th anniversary of one of the most significant developments in U.S. civil rights history; the 1941 formation of the first all-black combat unit in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Despite strict racial segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces and fierce resistance to allowing black pilots to fly combat missions, the Tuskegee Airmen went on to compile an extraordinary wartime record, completing more than 15,500 combat sorties between 1941 and 1945.

IAM Mourns Civil Rights Matriarch

Civil rights activist and longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women Dorothy Height died this morning. She was 98.

IAM Mourns Civil Rights Matriarch

Civil rights activist and longtime president of the National Council of Negro Women Dorothy Height died this morning. She was 98.

Nation Mourns Civil Rights Pioneer Benjamin Hooks

Civil rights leader and longtime NAACP director Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks died early this morning at his home in Tennessee. He was 85.

House Honors A. Philip Randolph, Also Passes Paycheck Fairness Act

Members of the House passed a resolution honoring the legacy of labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. Randolph is known as the father of the modern civil rights movement.

A Day "On"

January 26, 2010 - Many union members won't take a day off like the Martin Luther King holiday.  Rather, a lot of them take a day on...volunteering and giving back to those communities that have given them so much.

They Sat, So We Could Stand

January 22, 2010 - Nearly 50 years ago in Greensboro, North Carolina, a movement began that changed America.  Forever linking together the Civil Rights and Labor Movements.