The U.S. Senate has confirmed all five National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nominees, giving the country’s top governing body for labor disputes a full slate of nominees for the first time in a decade. President Obama’s two replacement nominees – Kent Hirozawa, the former top counsel to NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce, and past AFL-CIO Associate
Read moreNearly four years after forming a union over strong resistance, 120 workers in Washington, DC known as “Downtown SAMs” have ratified their first contract and are now full members of the National Federation of Federal Employees-IAM. The Downtown SAMs, short for Safety, Hospitality, and Maintenance workers, are employed by the non-profit Downtown Business Improvement District (BID)
Read moreThe city of Detroit has become the backdrop of a fierce battle to cut public employee wages and pensions in the wake of the Motor City’s recent filing for bankruptcy. The IAM and other labor groups stand in solidarity with Detroit city employees who have unjustly become scapegoats for the Motor City’s bankruptcy. The police
Read moreWorkers at AIM Aerospace, Inc. in Sumner, WA, have voted to join the Machinists Union by a 3-to-2 margin. On July 26, 2013, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reported that 60 percent of the votes cast were in favor of the union. The results must still be certified by the NLRB. The vote covers
Read moreIn the July issue of the IAM Journal, the most diverse Executive Council in IAM history is sworn in, the August 28, 2013 March on Washington is fast approaching, A. Philip Randolph is profiled as the key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) Young Workers’ Summer School convenes
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