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The IAM is joining with unions around the world calling attention to deadly working conditions at a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, where more than 100 workers were killed in a fire reminiscent of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. The fire at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory started in a
Read moreThe enrollment deadline for the Federal Employees Basic Program scheduled for February 3-8, 2013 at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center (WWW) in Hollywood, Maryland, is December 7, 2012. There is an additional Basic Program scheduled for March 10-15, 2013. The enrollment deadline for the March class is January 11, 2013. The program
Read moreThe 2013 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Observance will take place January 17-21 in Philadelphia, PA and will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington. The Observance will also coincide with the inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2013.
Read morefrom left) David Otoya (Local 811), Victoria Schoening (Local 1731), Victor Acosta (Local 914), Suzette Fleischmann (Facilitator), Alberto Herrera (Local 1759), Teri McClendon (IAM CREST, Staff) A quartet of IAM CREST Associate Instructors from IAM District 141 recently took part in a Spanish Development Workshop designed to ensure that Spanish-speaking members will have the same
Read moreThe extraordinary work of Guide Dogs of America (GDA) was summed up by a recent graduate in an IAM video about the annual William W. Winpisinger Charity Banquet in Las Vegas, NV. “He has changed my life,” declared a beaming Luetta Johnson of Lincoln NE, who was paired up with her dog in April at
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