From left: IAM Local 701 Training Director Lou Longhi, International President Tom Buffenbarger, Canadian General Vice President Dave Ritchie and General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., visit the Local 701 apprentice training center in Carol Stream, IL. During IAM President Tom Buffenbarger’s keynote address to the 2015 IAM Industrial Conference in Chicago, he emphasized the importance
Read moreSisters and Brothers, As we’ve said before, this Fast Track fight is far from over. House leadership is using legislative gimmickry to again bring Fast Track for the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to a vote TODAY, Thursday, June 18. The time to defeat Fast Track is NOW: Call your member of Congress at 855-712-8441 and
Read moreIAM International President Tom Buffenbarger delivers the keynote address at the opening of the 2015 IAM Industrial Conference. More than 350 IAM members, leadership and staff kicked off the 2015 IAM Industrial Conference in Chicago, pledging to confront head on the challenges facing workers in the many industries the IAM represents. The conference brings together
Read moreIAM members joined labor and community activists to protest Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership outside the Greenbelt, MD office of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD). On Friday Congress voted overwhelmingly to stall Fast Track, when Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) was soundly defeated. Our allies in the House heard our voices and took a
Read moreNew York Sen. Chuck Schumer with IAM workers at Alstom Transport. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer joined IAM District 19 leadership, to urge the Department of Transportation to green light Amtrak’s efforts to buy brand new Acela trains. At Alstom Transport in Hornell, NY, Schumer, alongside Directing General Chairman John Lacey and General Chairman Gary
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