The IAM continues to ramp up efforts across Wisconsin in collaboration with the state AFL-CIO and other affiliates to mobilize union households ahead of the upcoming elections. The initiative focuses on encouraging voters to support candidates who prioritize infrastructure development, good jobs, and the protection of union rights, ultimately aiming to build a stronger economy
Read moreWASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2024—Brian Bryant, International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), today issued a statement on the IAM’s extensive political mobilization efforts in battleground states, emphasizing the critical role of union volunteers in getting out the vote for pro-worker candidates: “As the nation’s largest aerospace, airline, transportation, and defense
Read moreATLANTA, Oct. 23, 2024 – Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) are hitting the doors in Atlanta to help elect Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in their bid for the White House. In collaboration with the Georgia AFL-CIO, IAM members are canvassing union households in the Atlanta
Read moreThe Nov. 5 national election date is approaching and IAM members have been in the city of Philadelphia and the battleground state of Pennsylvania. The AFL-CIO is coordinating a massive canvass of all union members in the area and urging them to vote for pr-labor candidates. The teams of union members are walking neighborhoods and
Read moreTrump’s Project 2025 is the 920-page document, written by at least 140 Trump advisers and former (and likely future) leaders in the Trump administration, that spells out what they plan to do during a Trump second term. The AFL-CIO broke it down for us: How would this agenda affect union members and working families? We are
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