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With a new video, editorial and a growing list of partners, the IAM community service project known as Ur Union of Unemployed, nicknamed UCubed, is beginning to resonate among labor organizations and unemployed workers, who have created more than 40 individual “cubes” to share their experiences and gain the benefits of collective action. Using
Read moreThe outcome of the special election in Massachusetts is being touted as a victory for Tea Party activists, who grabbed the public’s attention with a non-stop smear campaign against the proposed health care legislation. But an article by Roger Bybee in In These Times magazine, argues that Democrats who buy that reasoning are missing the
Read more(from left) U.S. Congressman John Garamendi, Chairman of US House Education and Labor Committee – George Miller, IAM Western Territory GVP Gary Allen (at podium), Executive Secretary of the California State AFL-CIO Art Pulaski is seated at right. A vocal contingent of Machinists union members took part in a recent rally in Concord, CA,
Read moreOn Friday, January 15, 2010, the IAM launched Ur Union of Unemployed– known as UCubed – an online community that aims to unify the unemployed in a unique and useful way. UCubed’s purpose is to assist the over 31 million Americans who have lost their jobs in this Grave Recession by helping them to organize,
Read moreThe IAM won another victory in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) service field after a group of Remote Pilot Operators, known as Ghost Pilots, voted to join the growing family of FAA service contract employees. The Ghost Pilots are part of the FAA’s training function at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, OK.
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