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More than 140,000 viewers voted in Sportsman Channel’s 2011 Sportsman Choice Awards, and “Brotherhood Outdoors” took home the award for Best Combination (Hunting/Fishing) Show. Since then, the series has only gotten better, and we need your help to make sure the only union-dedicated outdoor show on television wins an award this year. Vote for “Brotherhood
Read moreHerbert Claros, Vice-Chairman of the Metalworkers’ Union of São José dos Campos, rallies Embraer workers in October 2013. Around 10,000 workers at the Brazilian aerospace company recently struck for fair wages and better profit sharing. Workers for Embraer in São José dos Campos, Brazil have vowed to continue their fight for fair wages after narrowly
Read moreThe #StopFastTrack Week of Action is in full swing as labor and other trade advocacy organizations across the country rally to stop Congress from passing “Fast Track Trade Authority,” legislation that would allow for the swift passage of the highly-flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. Thousands of protesters took to the streets with door-to-door canvassing
Read moreThe IAM had the highest representation election win rate among the 10 largest U.S. unions in the first six months of 2014, winning over 90 percent of its elections, according to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) data analyzed by the Bloomberg Bureau of National Affairs. AFL-CIO affiliate unions as a whole won two-thirds of elections
Read moreBucking a national trend of right-wing Election Day victories, Connecticut voters defeated a union-busting millionaire to re-elect progressive Dan Malloy as the state’s governor. IAM members helped ensure the win. A robust, widely supported “Labor 2014” campaign, spearheaded by the state AFL-CIO, reached union members and their families in every corner of the state. The
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