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Ninety workers at Pepsi Co./Frito-Lay in Puerto Rico celebrate their overwhelming vote to become members of IAM Local 2725. Ninety more workers in Puerto Rico have voted by a 94 percent margin to join the IAM. The Frito-Lay snack stockers were working on a temporary basis before organizing with the IAM. They will now become
Read moreRepublicans in Congress are employing a rarely-used Senate rule to halt new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regulations aimed at speeding up and modernizing union representation elections. The GOP joint disapproval resolution will likely pass the Republican-controlled House and Senate, but President Obama is expected to use his veto pen when it reaches his desk.
Read moreThe biggest Wall Street banks don’t want you to know how much they pay their top executives to take government jobs, and they’re pleading with the Securities and Exchange Commission to let them keep it a secret. In an op-ed to The Wall Street Journal, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka helped sound the alarm on the
Read moreIAM Organizing Director Don Barker talks about the ongoing Boeing campaign in South Carolina during a one-on-one interview with the Machinists News Network. Workers at Boeing in North Charleston, SC should not have to deal with harassment and intimidation when it comes to joining a union. They should be able to decide for themselves, said
Read moreDr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leads thousands in a peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery, AL, to protest the lack of voting rights for African Americans in 1965. He’s joined by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman, now U.S. Congressman, John Lewis, right. The IAM will join thousands of civil, labor and human rights activists in
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