Maintaining a healthy defense industrial workforce is often a challenge when sequestration causes massive cuts to the U.S. defense budget. The Center for a New American Security sponsored this panel discussion in Washington, DC.
Read moreWhile Congress delays the passage of a government budget, at least 800,000 federal workers, including NFFE-IAM members, are forced to go without pay.
Read moreReverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, spoke at the annual Congressional Black Caucus legislative conference in Washington, D.C. For almost a decade, Barber’s been the driving force behind a thriving political body, the working-class values voter.
Read more“It’s Movement Time!” according to the Black Women’s Roundtable discussion at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference. A diverse group of women gathered to continue the important topic of “Moving A Unified Women’s Agenda Forward in 2013 and Beyond.” The IAM is a member organization of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation,
Read moreWhile 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.
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