IAM Human Rights Director Nicole Fears has been elected co-chair of the newly formed IndustriALL Global Women’s Committee, which held its inaugural meeting on June 10 in Geneva, Switzerland. Fears was nominated for the leadership position by United Steelworkers (USW) International President and IndustriALL’s North American Executive Committee Vice President Roxanne Brown. “Nicole’s leadership and
Read moreThe A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI) will host its 55th Annual Education Conference from July 22–26, 2026, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. The A. Philip Randolph Institute is an Organization of Black Trade Unionists who fight for racial equality and economic justice. A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin founded APRI in 1965 to continue the
Read moreAs Black History Month 2026 begins, the IAM is celebrating labor’s legacy of uplifting African American workers. Unions have a long history of fighting for the rights of the Black working-class, like slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglas who was appointed president of the Colored National Labor Union in 1872, to A. Philip Randolph who organized and
Read moreThe IAM Human Rights Department is now accepting registrations for two upcoming 2026 Human Rights Programs at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, Md. The goal of the programs is to help strengthen Human Rights Committees and equip IAM activists with the tools needed to promote fairness, equality, and inclusion across
Read moreThe IAM Union invites you to join our labor and civil-rights allies in Baltimore from Jan. 15-18, 2026 for the 2026 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil & Human Rights Conference.
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