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Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants’ quest for IAM representation arrived in Europe this week, as grassroots Delta Flight Attendant activists kicked off a week of organizing activities in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Monday January 6, 2014. The week’s activities in Amsterdam will offer Delta Flight Attendants the chance to sign or renew their election authorization
Read moreDecember 2013 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)… and a 20-year legacy of failed promises, a growing trade deficit, 682,900 lost jobs and counting. “Former President Bill Clinton claimed that NAFTA would create an ‘export boom to Mexico’ that would create 200,000 jobs in two years
Read moreIAM International President Tom Buffenbarger, while speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, called on Congress to hit the brakes on the “fast track” campaign to pass the secretly-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade Agreement. The IAM called on Congress to slow down the campaign for an expedited and secretly-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Read moreMike Rose The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) has elected IAM Grand Lodge Representative Mike Rose to its World Council, the global union federation’s highest governing body when the World Congress is not in session. BWI has more than 350 member organizations in 135 countries in the building, building materials, wood, forestry and allied
Read moreA new round of negotiations on the extremely-flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade deal poised to kill more jobs than NAFTA, began November 19 in Salt Lake City, Utah. As the Obama administration’s top U.S. negotiators continue secret talks on the agreement, it’s worth taking a look back at a 2011 op-ed by then-former
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