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IAM District 9, Local 660 member LaShawn Buford, center, stands with Michelle Windmiller, Committee Chairperson for Production Workers at Olin Corporation, left, and IAM District 9 Business Representative/Organizer Jason Tetidrick, right, while holding a check for $70,932.51 in back pay after being wrongfully discharged from his job in 2012. An IAM District 9 and Local
Read moreUnion leaders at this week’s AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Houston, TX, got a preview of a unique educational program being developed by the IAM to teach unions and union representatives how to better protect union members at companies facing corporate bankruptcy. “There are no good outcomes for workers when a company goes into bankruptcy,
Read moreIAM Spanish Leadership Working Group members, front to back, IAM Transportation Education Representative Monica Silbas, Local 1125 Steward Edmundo Osorio, and IAM District 725 Organizer Calixto Tapia, work to revamp the 2014 Spanish Leadership Program class offerings. A diverse mix of Spanish-speaking IAM members, known as the Spanish Leadership Working Group (SLWG), gathered at the
Read moreMembers of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM) and other federal workers, hit hard by the Republican-controlled Congress and its anti-labor agenda, rally outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. A new Machinists News Network video highlights a rally in support of federal workers who have been hit hard by the Republican-controlled Congress and
Read moreThe IAM in Canada says Bill C-525 is a move in the wrong direction and is urging the House of Commons to reject it. “When workers wish to better their working lives by joining a union, they are being bullied, harassed, intimidated and even fired on the job by their employers for trying to exercise
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