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WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2020 – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today began a video series exposing the human cost of President Trump’s broken promises that U.S. workers “won’t lose one plant” and declarations that “[plants] are all coming back.”
Read morePresident Trump said he would stop plant closures. FreightCar America in Roanoke, Va. announced in July 2019 that it would be closing and laying off 198 Transportation Communications Union (TCU/IAM) Local 6016 members. The work moved to Mexico and Alabama.
Read moreAt nationwide protests this week, including on Capitol Hill, frustrated TCU/IAM members from Amtrak criticized Congress for not extending funding for transit workers.
Read moreThe IAM Legal department is raising concerns about Amy Coney Barrett’s anti-labor record as a federal circuit judge.
Read moreOutside the U.S. Capitol, IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr. joined other labor leaders, airline executives and politicians to call for an extension of the airline Payroll Support Program (PSP) which offers emergency funding to airline workers that have been decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The act, which will save over 100,000 jobs if extended,
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