IAM members from the U.S. and Canada recently gathered at the Winpisinger Center in Hollywood, MD to hold its inaugural Educators Conference. The week-long agenda gave Educators the chance to share ideas and techniques. Holding workshops and panel interviews, the Educators focused on informational presentations with six classes a day.
Read moreWednesday labor leaders, workers and politicians held a press conference at the Maryland State House to urge the State Senate, which is currently in session, to pass legislation that will expand workers’ rights by making it easier to organize public workers like librarians. If passed, House Bill 65 will grant those unorganized public library workers
Read moreLast year a resolution was passed by the delegation at the 40th IAM Grand Lodge Convention to create a Committee on the Future. The group was established to listen to IAM members throughout the United States and Canada to propose new ideas on how to grow the union and develop the next generation of leaders
Read moreArmelle Seby is the Gender & White Collar Workers Director at IndustriALL, a labor federation based in Switzerland representing 50 million workers worldwide. She recently visited the IAM Grand Lodge outside Washington, D.C.
Read moreArmelle Seby is the Gender & White Collar Workers Director at IndustriALL, a labor federation based in Switzerland representing 50 million workers worldwide. Seby is a longtime fighter for women’s rights and says she’s impressed by an IAM program called Leadership Excellence Assembly of Dedicated Sisters, also known as IAM LEADS, which recruits woman Machinists
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