Winpisinger Center’s Foundational Skills Class Trains Emerging IAM Leaders: The IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center recently conducted the Foundational Skills program for 52 IAM officers and staff from across the U.S. and Canada. The five days of training consisted of more than a dozen training sessions.
Read moreWomen’s History Month is a time to celebrate gender equality, including the hardworking women membership of the IAM.
Read moreLast week, the Maryland Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 352 from Harford County Public Library worker Morgan Michael and Anita Bass, IAM Local Lodge president for the Baltimore County Public Library system. The Senate Legislation seeks to give library workers the right to organize throughout the state of Maryland.
Read moreOn Tuesday, NFFE-IAM members joined pro-labor politicians in Washington, D.C. to call for an 8.7% wage increase for federal workers. If approved by congress and the president, the FAIR Act legislative bill will increase government salaries for thousands, counter a recent rise in inflation and sustain middle class families of hardworking government workers.
Read moreSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held a news conference Thursday with rail workers to demand companies provide them with at least seven paid sick days, a move supported by IAM-TCU. Last year Sanders led the effort to pass a legislative amendment to guarantee paid sick days to rail workers, but it failed in the Senate. Guaranteeing
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