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NFFE/IAM National President William Dougan appeared on Washington DC-area television station WUSA 9 to discuss the negative impacts of sequestration and urge federal workers, on their non-work time, to contact Congress. “Federal employees need to understand that they’re citizens just like every other citizen in this country, and they have the right to speak out
Read moreFriday, May 10, 2013, is the deadline to enter the 2013 IAM Newsletter and Website Contest and the 2013 IAM Photo Contest. The Newsletter and Website Contest is open to all good-standing local and district lodges who regularly distribute official newsletters and/or maintain regularly-updated websites. A panel of independent judges will consider newsletters published between
Read moreLocal 851 member and State Representative Larry Walsh, Jr. (D-IL), stands proudly with his family at the inauguration held to swear in the Illinois 98th General Assembly. Walsh has been elected to serve his first full term for the 86th Representative District of Illinois. State Representative Larry Walsh, Jr. has been elected to serve his
Read moreNobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman blasted the looming automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration as “one of the worst policy ideas in our nation’s history” in an op-ed in the New York Times. The across-the-board cuts are set to kick in on March 1 if Congress fails to act. The sequester was part of
Read moreHundreds are headed to Washington, DC, to rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, February 27. The court will hear arguments on whether to strike Section Five of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The landmark law banned racial gerrymandering and opened Southern polling places to millions of African-American voters during the Civil Rights movement. Section
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