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North Carolina’s Republican-majority state legislature passed the restrictive law in August 2013, just two months after a conservative majority on the Supreme Court voted to gut key portions of the Voting Rights Act. One of the law’s most fervent supporters, North Carolina House Speaker Tom Tillis (R), is challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC)
Read morePictured from left to right: Twana McFann Labor Division Vice-Chair, Deborah Hersman, Ron Miller, IAM Safety and Health Dept. Director Mike Flynn, Joe Grabinnski Labor Division Chair and Mark Johnson Labor Division Vice President. The IAM’s Joint Air Transport Safety Committee (JATSC) was recognized by the National Safety Council as a recipient of their “Exemplary
Read moreIAM District 9, Local 660 hosted AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, third from left, at a get-out-the-vote labor rally in East Alton, IL. From left to right: Local 660 Secretary-Treasurer B. Dean Webb, Rep. Bill Enyart (D-IL), Trumka, Southwestern Illinois Building and Construction Trades President Dale Stewart, Illinois AFL-CIO President Michael T. Carrigan and Illinois AFL-CIO
Read moreThe IAM announced it reached a tentative contract covering approximately 165 fleet technical and emergency procedures instructors at United Airlines. The tentative four-year deal calls for immediate wage and benefit improvements, retroactive and signing bonus payments, strengthened employment security provisions and increased defined-benefit pension benefits. “The IAM is proud of the work the negotiating team
Read moreNegotiations between IAM Local 2069 and representatives of Schneider Electric Square D in Peru, IN are poised to resume on October 15 in Chicago, IL. Workers at the plant began a strike after voting to reject a contract proposal from Schneider that froze workers’ defined benefit pension plan and failed to address key wage, health
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