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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 moreLobstermen 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 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
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