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Don’t miss your chance to feature your Lodge members in the popular IAM Calendar. Just enter the IAM Photography Contest. The entry deadline is June 30, 2015. Photos must be taken by members in good standing and persons in the photos must be members in good standing, too. Subjects should be working at their job
Read moreCall your Senators now. Tell them to vote “no” to Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). We need to flood Congress with phone calls today before the first vote on Fast Track, which would bar Congress from any meaningful debate or ability to offer amendments to the massive free trade deal. The Senate vote
Read moreIAM General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach Jr., class of 1996, will be honored with the State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College’s 2015 Distinguished Alumni Award at the college’s celebration of Black History and Alumni Award event on Thursday, May 7, 2015. “Continuing my education at SUNY Empire State College expanded on the skills
Read moreHistory was made in Alberta’s elections and the Machinists Union played a part. The Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) won a landslide victory, sweeping away the ruling Conservatives after 44 years in power in an “Orange Wave.” Orange is the color of the NDP. Jamie Kleinsteuber, 38, a member of IAM Local 1681, was elected
Read moreIAM District 15 in New York overcame an aggressive anti-union campaign by managers at Penske Truck Leasing’s Bridgeport, NJ facility, and won collective bargaining rights for more than two dozen Technicians and Customer Service Representatives. “These workers overcame an aggressive anti-union campaign carried out by Penske’s corporate labor relations representative who camped out in Bridgeport
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