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In an effort to help some 1.3 million unemployed Americans tread water in these difficult times, Democrats returned to Washington this week armed with stories from unemployed Americans in their home states who were dropped from the federal unemployment benefit rolls on December 28, 2013. Congress neglected to extend the benefits leaving the 1.3 million
Read moreTony Rippeto IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger announced the appointment of District 9 Directing Business Representative (DBR) Tony Rippeto to serve on the IAM Law Committee. Rippeto will fill the position previously held by retired Law Committee member Ellen Arbogast. “Ellen Arbogast is retiring after an extraordinary union career that’s spanned nearly four decades,” said
Read moreMore than a hundred union members from IAM, TCU and NFFE worked all day to construct frames for six Habitat for Humanity homes in San Antonio, TX. It’s a common refrain from critics, or maybe a family member or colleague: “Young people are too apathetic to care about labor unions or workers’ rights.” It couldn’t
Read moreDemonstrators picket in favor of equal voting rights outside the GOP convention hall in Chicago in July 1960. Photo by Francis Miller/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images When the Supreme Court overturned critical portions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in June of last year, it kicked the responsibility of replacement legislation to one of the least-productive
Read moreIAM District 15 Business Representative Jim Conigliaro, Sr., flanked by dozens of union supporters at a rally in New York, demands Congress votes “No” on a bill to reauthorize “fast track” authority on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. IAM Directing Business Representative Jim Conigliaro, Sr., of District 15 in New York, joined fellow New
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