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The state AFL-CIO conventions of Idaho and Montana have each passed a proclamation in support of Council-FIRE. The delegates overwhelmingly supported efforts to increase awareness of native issues, and to coordinate those efforts through the network of AFL-CIO contacts and native constituencies and community groups. “Council-FIRE has been a wonderful overture to address the needs
Read moreThirty-two IAM members who work at Skookum in New Mexico voted in favor of their first collective bargaining agreement on July 26, 2012, with negotiations taking nearly nine months to complete. Skookum is an Ability 1 Company that performs maintenance work for the US Army at White Sands Missile Range. In order to be classified
Read moreNearly four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the start of the nation’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, millions of jobless Americans find themselves held hostage by a GOP agenda that alternates between calls for drug testing to blaming the unemployed for causing the nation’s jobless crisis. “Four years ago, the
Read moreAfter twice rejecting the company’s last, best and final offer on July 16 and July 25, three hundred plus IAM members who work at Trax International (formerly Newtec) voted to accept the modified offer made by the company on July 30, 2012. Trax International initially wanted to replace the current co-payment healthcare plan with a
Read moreA trio of organizing victories in Kentucky and Texas are the latest examples of workers in Southern states turning to the Machinists union for the security and stability of an IAM agreement. In Louisville, KY, eight Recast Energy LLC workers voted to join the IAM. The IAM’s newest members are boiler operators who provide steam
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