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Today, fast food workers around the world engaged in a one-day strike for higher wages and the right to join a union. The events – which are a part of the growing “Fight for Fifteen” movement – took place on May 15 as a symbol of the $15 minimum wage U.S. workers deserve to be
Read moreThe IAM announced it filed an application with the National Mediation Board (NMB) to conduct a representation election for fleet service employees at Spirit Airlines. “Today we took the first step toward gaining power and respect on the job,” said Spirit ramp agent Mauricio Oviedo-Falcon from Fort Lauderdale, FL. “The time is now for all
Read moreHundreds of IAM political activists are in Washington, DC this week to lobby for workers’ rights on Capitol Hill during the 2014 IAM Legislative Conference. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are bracing themselves for an onslaught of Machinists Union activists this week. Speakers kicked off the 2014 IAM Legislative Conference in Washington, DC by calling for
Read moreCongress failed once again to help America’s most vulnerable workers when it killed the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, a bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10. In an op-ed published in Roll Call, IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger made a strong case for why Congress was wrong and why raising the minimum wage is
Read moreThe IAM congratulates 32-year IAM member and Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the San Mateo County Central Labor Council Shelley Kessler on her appointment to the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation (CHSWC). The California Speaker of Assembly announced Kessler’s appointment to the CHSWC in a recent statement. The Commission is a joint labor-management
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