IAM Legislative Representatives recently gathered on Capitol Hill to support other affiliates of Metal Trades Department, a group of 17 national and international unions. The group met with members of Congress to discuss issues impacting the Metal Trades Unions.
Read moreApril 6, 2019, WASHINGTON — A statement from Robert Martinez Jr., International President, Machinists Union: “The IAM strongly supports the effort by Sens. Brown and Wyden to curtail corporate incentives to outsource work to Mexico.
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Read moreDespite some modest labor improvements, NAFTA 2.0 maintains the fundamental flaws carried over from past trade agreements, writes IAM Chief of Staff and Director of Trade and Globalization Owen Herrnstadt for the Economic Policy Institute.
Read moreThe Machinists Union, the AFL-CIO and members of Congress are still fighting to secure back pay for federal contract workers. More than 1 million federal contract workers went without pay during the longest government shutdown in history.
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