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Hillary Clinton, pictured with IAM supporters at a rally in Alexandria, VA, won a hard-fought victory in the Iowa Caucuses and secured the endorsement of the New York Times in her bid for the Democratic Nomination for president. It took boots-on-the-ground efforts, like those of IAM members across the state, to secure Hillary Clinton’s hard-fought
Read moreMiembros del grupo de Trabajo Sspañol Liderazgo Junio 2015. Primera fila, desde la izquierda: Paula Cardenas, Adriana Picasso, Geny Ulloa y Anne Wiberg. Segunda fila: Javier Almazan, Macario Camorlinga, Abby Lau, Calixto Tapia y Danny Arreola. Tercera fila: Jorge Bonilla, Angel Perez, Cesar Alvarado, Jose Perez, Joel Ochoa y Armando Arreola. El Centro de Educación
Read moreIAM Local 2198 member Brenda Douglas helps sort canned food at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, DC. More than 1,000 labor and human rights activists gathered in Washington, DC to take part in the 2016 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Civil and Human Rights Conference. The theme, “Change the Rules, Be the
Read moreCBTU President Emeritus Bill Lucy spoke at the AFL-CIO Ideas at Work luncheon and recalled the events surrounding the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike. In early February 1968, Memphis sanitation workers reached a tipping point in their dealings with the city following the deaths of two garbage collectors by a malfunctioning truck. As a speaker
Read moreIAM Chief of Staff and Director of Trade and Globalization Owen Herrnstadt lauds a bipartisan bill reauthorizing the Ex-Im Bank during a news conference on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank is a good deal for American workers and their tax dollars, according to newly-released figures from the independent lending agency. In 2015, the
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