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An IAM District 751 member at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Oak Harbor, WA votes on a collective bargaining agreement covering about 140 Machinists. IAM District 751 members who work as civilian contractors at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station in Oak Harbor, WA have won wage and pension increases with a new collective bargaining
Read moreIAM District 1 Directing Business Representative Danny Chmelko (center), Grand Lodge Representative Gary Anthony (standing) and Apprentice Organizer Chuck Herod (front) meet with Bowhead workers and supporters. Nearly 1,000 workers employed by Bowhead Support Group, LLC at Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, PA will vote Thursday, July 30, whether to join the IAM. The
Read moreCongress is on the verge of stripping due process rights from every non-management Veterans Affairs (VA) employee – including whistleblowers and the over 100,000 veterans employed by the VA. Supporters of the dubiously-named “VA Accountability Act” (H.R. 1994) claim that the VA is unable to eliminate poor performers. In fact, the VA fired 2,247 employees
Read moreIAM International President R. Thomas Buffenbarger issued the following statement on the release of the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons report that upgrades Malaysia to Tier 2 status: “Today’s incredulous upgrading of Malaysia in the U.S. State Department’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report makes a mockery of a once vitally important report and ensures
Read moreOn average, it will take until July 28, 2015 for a black woman to earn as much as a white man would have earned by the end of December last year. That is, for every dollar a white man earns, a black woman earns only 64 cents. Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is a way
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