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IAM members stood side-by-side with Brazilian metalworkers as they aired their grievances over unsatisfactory wage increases at aerospace company Embraer. Visiting Brazil as part of a labor exchange trip between Brazil and the U.S., the Machinists delivered a message of solidarity to brothers and sisters of Sindacato dos Metalúrgicos, a labor union that represents metalworkers
Read moreFrom left to right, Dennis Wright, OSCM Secretary-Treasurer; Ed Fitzgerald, Candidate for Ohio Governor; T. Dean Wright, Jr., OSCM President; Duane Lukens, OSCM Vice President; Neil Douglas, OSCM Legislative Agent and Nick Kent OSCM Vice President. The Ohio State Council of Machinists (OSCM) endorsed Cuyahoga County Executive and former FBI Agent Ed FitzGerald for governor
Read moreA contingent of IAM members and retirees will be attending an upcoming House committee hearing on “pension reform” and changes to laws governing the nation’s multi-employer pension system on Tuesday, October 29, 2013. The “Strengthening the Multiemployer Pension System: How Will Proposed Reforms Affect Employers, Workers, and Retirees?” hearing will be held by the Subcommittee
Read moreAn article posted on The Hill website warns that sequestration could kill four or five F-35 fighter jets in 2014 if the across-the-board cuts are not averted. The second round of sequestration cuts, expected to take effect January 15, 2014, threaten to reduce the Pentagon’s budget by $52 billion. Under the first round of cuts,
Read moreFrom left, IAM Local 126 Directing Business Representative Joe Pijanowski presents Local 126 member Tom Symmes with signed settlement documents, alongside Local 126 Steward Juan Fuentes. Symmes recently returned to work after being wrongfully discharged from LPB Manufacturing in Cicero, IL. Here’s another great example of why it pays to have a union contract. IAM
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