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Lobstermen from Vinalhaven, ME, met at the IAM’s Winpisinger Center to plan an organizing effort to preserve their way of life. A unique group of workers, Lobstermen from Maine, met at the IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Education & Technology Center to plan organizing not only themselves, but potentially thousands of Lobstermen up and down the
Read moreU.S. lawmakers are rapidly approaching the onset of a “fiscal doomsday” scenario, known as sequestration, which promises, among many other things, to sacrifice more than a million U.S. jobs and hinder military readiness. President Obama is expected to meet with the top four Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate on March 1
Read moreIAM International President Tom Buffenbarger joined fellow members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council in calling on President Obama to immediately nominate a slate of five members to fill all vacant seats on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The move comes on the heels of a recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision that ruled the
Read moreThe fate of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 now rests in the hands of nine U.S. Supreme Court justices, including one who openly expressed contempt for the law. Oral arguments in the Shelby County v. Holder case concluded as what was best described as a “tense and sometimes fractious” process. At
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
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