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U.S. senator Sherrod Brown from Ohio, a friend of the Machinists Union, spoke in Washington about the dangers of a potentially troubling tyrannical trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). If the TPP is ratified, it will control 40 percent of the worldwide economy and could kill the American manufacturing sector.
Read moreIAMAW member Dean McCoy, of Local Lodge 1969 in Kentucky, testified before the United States International Trade Commission about the effects of unfair Chinese imports on American workers. McCoy is a tank car loader at Arkema, where machinists union members make refrigerants and other products that many of us take for granted. McCoy and the
Read moreIAM representatives, who’ve been in South Carolina for several years on an organizing assignment at Boeing, took part in a one-year anniversary rally that honored nine precious lives that were taken by a gunman inside the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
Read moreIt’s been nearly five weeks and the men and women of Triumph Composite Systems continue to make their voices heard. More than four-hundred Machinists members are standing up for what’s right in Spokane, WA.
Read moreThe Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, also known as CBTU, held its 45th annual convention in Washington, D.C. The location, the nation’s capital, is fitting given this year’s presidential and congressional elections.
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