While history and human rights were being taught in DC a few weeks ago, Machinists were putting these lessons to use right away in the IAM’s Womens and Human Rights classes held at WWW.
Read moreAs Americans remembered the devastating terror attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., members of the labor community are paying respects to unions who directly served on September 11,th including members who have kept many of us safe ever since.
Read moreA young Machinist talks about the daily struggles facing some underpaid manufacturing workers in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas.
Read moreNobel Prize winning author Joseph Stiglitz spoke to the AFL-CIO at its headquarters and convention about his new book, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. Stiglitz has a plan to help America that involves rewriting laws so everyone can realize the American Dream.
Read moreThe “Let Freedom Ring Commemoration and Call to Action” ceremony took place on the actual 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Tens of thousands braved the rain at Lincoln Memorial, half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. The closing ceremony gave people a chance to reflect
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