Today is Equal Pay Day. April 4 represents how far into the next year women have to work to earn the same amount that men earned the previous year. On average, women were paid 22 percent less per hour than men in 2016, even after factoring in race and ethnicity, education, experience and location.
Read moreIAM International President Bob Martinez joined other labor leaders Tuesday on Capitol Hill to discuss the need for good job opportunities and pension security for today’s workforce during a listening session with the Congressional Blue Collar Caucus.
Read moreJoin hundreds of IAM members May 8-10, 2017 in Washington, DC to lobby for policies that actually benefit the workers in our country and not the corporations. The deadline to guarantee rooms at the discounted rate is Friday, April 7.
Read moreThanks to efforts by Machinists and others who flooded Congress with phone calls at a ratio of well over 50 to 1 opposing the misguided Americans Health Care Act (AHCA), working people prevented it from coming to a vote in the House of Representatives.
Read moreThe Federal Workers Alliance, a unified group of 19 unions representing 300,000 federal employees sent a letter to Congress this week urging them to vote no on a bill targeting federal workers.
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