The IAM will conduct the 2015 Federal Employees’ Advanced Program at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, MD, July 12-17, 2015. Helpful for stewards, officers and business representatives, the Advanced Program involves training in areas specific to the Federal Sector such as ULP and grievance handling, preparations for arbitration and Merit
Read moreMembers of the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to vote Thursday, March 26,on H.Con.Res. 27, the proposed Concurrent Resolution on the Fiscal Year 2016 Budget. The IAM urges all members to contact their members of Congress and urge them to vote “No” on this budget bill. This extreme budget would gouge hundreds of billions
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Read moreNew Mexico working families came out in full force to canvass in opposition to a right-to-work law that would gut their collective bargaining rights. (Photo: New Mexico Federation of Labor) IAM and labor activists beat back so-called “right-to-work” bills, at least for now, in New Mexico and Kentucky, and continue to fight against the GOP’s
Read moreLifelong labor activist Clayola Brown, president of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, sat down with the Machinists News Network to share her thoughts on race, voting rights and the future of activism on the 50th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches. Watch “ViewPoint with Clayola Brown.” “When you look at the voter disenfranchisement around the country,”
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