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Don’t miss your chance to have your photo featured in the 2013 IAM Calendar! The deadline for the IAM Photo Contest has been extended to July 9, 2012. The annual IAM Photo Contest showcases IAM members and the many jobs they do. Photos should be of IAM or TCU members in good standing and taken
Read moreAmerican Rights at Work (ARAW) honored IAM Woodworkers Department Chief of Staff Bill Street (right) for his hard work and dedication in organizing IKEA workers in Danville, VA, last summer. Street was presented with the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, an award given each year to individuals who have helped champion workers’ rights and human
Read more“To say that we’re disappointed in the arbitrator’s award would be an understatement,” said District 140 President Chuck Atkinson in response to a ruling by a Canadian arbitrator in the long-running contract dispute between Air Canada and IAM District 140. The arbitrator, who was appointed after the Canadian government passed legislation in March to bar
Read moreThe IAM accepted an invitation from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) to meet with Lockheed Martin and federal mediators to explore settlement possibilities for the strike that began on April 23, 2012. “The IAM welcomes the involvement of federal mediators and we’re looking forward to the face-to-face meetings with Lockheed,” said IAM Aerospace
Read moreIAM President Tom Buffenbarger was chosen to be one of three vice presidents of IndustriALL Global Union, a new trade union federation representing 50 million workers in 140 countries. IAM President Tom Buffenbarger was elected today to serve as one of three vice presidents of IndustriALL Global Union, the newly formed union federation representing 50
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