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There’s still time to enter the 2013 IAM Photo Contest. The new deadline is now Friday, July 26, 2013. For the 2013 Photo Contest, photos must be taken of and by members in good standing, un-posed and working at their job (and conforming to all safety standards). Click here for complete contest rules, the entry
Read moreFormer IAM Headquarters GVP Rich Michalski has retired after over four decades of service to the Machinists Union. Recently-retired IAM Headquarters General Vice President Rich Michalski has been publicly recognized by two members of Congress for his long career of service to the IAM, the labor movement and working families. Michalski became a familiar face
Read moreOn April 24, 2013, an eight-story garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,127 workers and injuring more than 2,500. Labor and workers’ rights groups are protesting the most recent attempt by Wal-Mart, Gap and 15 other American retailers to skirt meaningful safety reforms in the Bangladeshi garment industry. The mega-retailers’ plan is nonbinding, not
Read moreFood court workers at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC are some of the hundreds of federally-contracted employees to speak out against unjust wages. (Credit: AFL-CIO Washington DC Metro Council) Hundreds of federally-contracted low-wage workers, mobilized by the new labor coalition Good Jobs Nation, are joining together in a call
Read moreIAM Maine Lobstering Union member Chris Radley sets out along the Maine coastline to catch lobsters. He and his fellow union brothers and sisters are working together to make sure the estimated 5,000 lobsterers statewide have a voice in the industry and state legislature. Two new videos on the Machinists News Network highlight the hard
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