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Over 300 IAM members descended on Capitol Hill this week, with IAM Transportation members leading the charge and pressuring Congress to support legislation that improves the working conditions of IAM members who work on the nation’s railroads and in commercial aviation. Hundreds of members in Congress were visited by IAM Transportation members and came to
Read moreNearly 400 members of the Independent Drivers Guild (IDG) rallied outside City Hall in New York yesterday prior to a hearing on a proposed bill that would tighten regulations on the industry and cost drivers even more money.
Read moreU.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, who has been sounding the alarm on a pending pension crisis and was named co-chair of the newly-formed Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans, spoke at a National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Sen. Brown continues to work to strengthen and improve programs that protect
Read moreDozens of union leaders gathered in Washington, DC to ask Congress to maintain the Jones Act, a law that says goods shipped between US ports must be transported on ships that are owned, operated and made by Americans. The law has provided job security for Machinist members who build ships around the country. But in
Read moreThe International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) have announced a $1 million pledge to support “Vote No on Prop A” – a multi-million dollar effort, headed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, to repeal Proposition A, a Right to Work law in the state of Missouri.
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