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Collective bargaining rights are an essential means to securing the economic equality that has been an elusive goal of the civil rights movement for decades. That was the message from IAM President Tom Buffenbarger and a panel of labor leaders at the 14th Annual National Convention of the National Action Network (NAN) in Washington D.C.
Read moreA bill to undo a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule ensuring workers can freely and fairly exercise their right to join a union is headed for a vote in the Senate this week. In December, the NLRB issued new rules that would make union representation elections fairer by simplifying procedures, deferring litigation and setting
Read moreIn a letter to San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors, IAM President Tom Buffenbarger responded to reports that BART is considering a firm that outsources work to Mexico and China for a $3 billion contract to build 775 passenger cars. “These media reports are extremely disturbing to our union, but most
Read moreAn overwhelming majority of 84 workers at Angeles Composite Technologies (ACT) in Port Angeles, WA, voted to join the IAM. ACT supplies structural assemblies and components to aerospace companies, including Boeing, Bombardier, and Lockheed Martin. “I would like to congratulate the workers at Angeles Composite Technologies and the staff of IAM District W24 who made
Read moreThe relentless anti-worker, GOP attacks on working families continues in Wisconsin as Republican lawmakers recently repealed the state’s equal pay law. Governor Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill last week. The 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act was put in place to prevent wage discrimination against certain groups, particularly women, by giving workers more ways
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