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Longtime IAM Representative and labor activist John Capobianco, Sr., passed away at home on April 22. He was the retired Directing Business Representative (DBR) of District 170 (formerly District 64) and a lifetime member who initiated into the IAM in 1951. Capobianco was elected as a Business Representative in 1967, where he served until becoming
Read more1st row (from left): IAM Midwest Territory SR Rick Mickschl, International President Tom Buffenbarger, District 66 DBR Marty Gaul, LL 21 Shop Chairman Rich Hauser, Rod Perry (LL 1115 Shop Committee), LL 21 President Brad King; 2nd row: Tony Diersen (LL 21 Shop Committee), John Davis (LL21 Shop Committee), LL 1115 Shop Chair Dennis Leis;
Read moreBangladeshis watch the rescue operations at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, leaving at least 251 dead and an unknown number of the factory’s more than 3,000 employees still trapped. Tragedy has again claimed the lives of scores of low-income textile workers in Bangladesh’s garment district. An eight-story factory building in
Read moreFront Row: Isaac Black (14), Faith Black (17), Recording-Secretary Ed Devault, PDBR Neil Douglas, Contracting Out/Restructuring Chair Mike Burt, Andrew Burt (6), Chloe Burt (11). Back Row: Doug Hayes, Jr., CSC Jason Black, Training Director Greg Swartz, Committeeman Shawn Coffey, Daryl Harris, Veronica Creekbaum, CSC Chair Mike Creekbaum. Not Pictured: VP Andrew Hounshell, Mike Winding
Read moreA new Demos report finds that young workers are no better off than they were a year ago and are continuing to endure a jobs crisis even as the economy recovers. “For many young people the promises of finding a good job, starting a family, or making a better life for themselves are all on
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