UnioNation performed original songs and classic hits at a celebration commemorating the IAM’s 125th anniversary at Local Lodge 709 in Marietta, GA. Their CD is expected to be available for purchase before the end of the year. (Bill Burke / Page One Photography). IAM members express their solidarity in a number of ways – on
Read moreMembers of the Okeelanta Corp. Negotiating Committee met at the William W. Winpisinger Center in Hollywood, MD to strategize for their upcoming contract negotiations with the company. The Negotiating Committee for over 550 IAM Local Lodge 2152 members at South Bay, FL-based sugar manufacturer Okeelanta Corp. met at the William W. Winpisinger Center recently to
Read moreAmid charges of forged election authorization cards and after more than a year of causing conflict and division among workers at American Airlines and US Airways, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) has abandoned its raid of Mechanic and Related Workers at American Airlines. Citing the federal government’s opposition to the proposed US Airways/American Airlines
Read moreNorth Carolina has become the first domino to fall in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). A Washington Post editorial says the state’s new voting law, made possible by GOP majorities in both houses of the state legislature and a Republican governor, “takes the war on voting
Read moreFifty years ago this year, Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr., TCU/IAM’s own A. Philip Randolph and Civil Rights Activist Bayard Rustin led a gathering of Americans from all walks of life in a march on the Nation’s Capital to demand a better way of life, to banish discrimination and to secure the notion that a
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