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Congress failed once again to help America’s most vulnerable workers when it killed the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, a bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. In an op-ed published in Roll Call, IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger made a strong case for why Congress was wrong and why raising the minimum wage is
Read moreThe IAM congratulates 32-year IAM member and Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the San Mateo County Central Labor Council Shelley Kessler on her appointment to the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC). The California Speaker of Assembly announced Kessler’s appointment to the CHSWC in a recent statement. The Commission is a joint labor-management
Read moreThe IAM mourns the death of civil, human and workers’ rights advocate Cecil Branstetter. He passed away on May 7, 2014 at the age of 93. During 60 years of practicing law in his home state of Tennessee, Branstetter relentlessly defended the less fortunate and was once one of the few labor lawyers in the
Read moreIAM members have elected the top leadership of their union by a more than a two-to-one margin. The preliminary results were announced today following a tabulation of ballots from IAM Local Lodges across the United States and Canada. The vote count was performed at IAM Headquarters in Upper Marlboro, MD under the direct supervision of
Read moreThe IAM’s supplemental insurance provider, Employee Benefit Systems (EBS), has tapped Jeffrey “Jeff” Grim to lead EBS’s nationally successful Machinists Custom Choices Worksite Benefits Program. Grim, 42, is a Marine Corps veteran and proven leader in the worksite insurance industry. “The board of directors of EBS are excited to have one of the country’s innovators
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