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Retirees and their spouses come from all over North America to participate in the IAM’s Retiree Conferences. The registration deadline for this year’s conference, which begins November 19 in Las Vegas, is October 11. Are you ready to have fun with IAM Brothers and Sisters and safeguard hard-won union benefits? If so, join us for
Read moreMadison firefighter Ted Higgins is arrested by WI State Capitol Police after participating in a Solidarity Sing Along on August 19, 2013. (Photo: Leslie Peterson) Add freedom of assembly to the list of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s enemies. A month ago, the Republican began ordering the arrest of people participating in noontime sing-alongs to protest
Read moreThe 2013 IAM Transportation Conference is the first to be chaired by IAM Transportation General Vice President Sito Pantoja, right. Also pictured, left to right, IAM General Vice President Diane Babineaux, IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., and IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger. The 2013 IAM Transportation Conference convened in Las Vegas, NV on the
Read moreAmid charges of forged election authorization cards and after more than a year of causing conflict and division among workers at American Airlines and US Airways, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) has abandoned its raid of Mechanic and Related Workers at American Airlines. Citing the federal government’s opposition to the proposed US Airways/American Airlines
Read moreNorth Carolina has become the first domino to fall in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). A Washington Post editorial says the state’s new voting law, made possible by GOP majorities in both houses of the state legislature and a Republican governor, “takes the war on voting
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