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IAM members perform as unioNation at the 2013 IAM Staff Conference in Atlanta. The IAM’s popular unioNation band is growing. Do you want to be a part of history? The band is calling all IAM, TCU and NFFE members who have musical talents to update and write modern labor music. All genres are welcome, from
Read moreKaren, left, and Joyce Koch are new rivals to the right-wing billionaire Koch brothers. You’ve probably heard of the Koch brothers – right-wing billionaires who buy elections and peddle influence to further their business interests. Now it’s time to meet the Koch sisters. They’re not related to each other, or to Charles and David Koch.
Read moreRepublican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, facing a tough re-election fight in November, is wasting no time throwing darts at her favorite target: organized labor. Haley’s first TV campaign ad of the year revisits a 2011 complaint filed against Boeing by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for illegally retaliating against IAM members in Washington
Read moreWith only three weeks left before the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank is scheduled to shut its doors, IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger is urging U.S. Senators to support a bipartisan bill to keep the lending agency running through 2019. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Mark Kirk (R-IL), would make increases in the
Read moreThe California Court of Appeals has upheld a 2012 Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) decision that the City of Long Beach illegally furloughed its employees in 2009. PERB is the agency that enforces the collective bargaining law (Meyers-Milias-Brown Act or MMBA) that applies to local governments. On May 5, 2009, the Long Beach City Council
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