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Members of the IAM joined with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) in a 125-person march on Reynolds American’s shareholder meeting in Winston-Salem, NC, to demand justice for tobacco farm workers. “The conditions the farmworkers toil under are inhumane,” said IAM District Lodge 110 President Teddy McNeil. “Sub-minimum wages, child labor, pesticide exposure, uninhabitable housing,
Read moreIAM President Tom Buffenbarger hailed the recently announced agreements with retailers H&M and Inditex to create a safety inspection system for clothing suppliers in Bangladesh. The agreement is the result of collaboration between the Worker’s Rights Coalition and the International Labor Rights Forum (NGO, non-governmental organizations), and IndustriALL Global Union Federation. “The IAM worked hard to
Read moreRep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) Republicans have finally come up with a way to end unemployment: stop counting it. A bill introduced by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) would prevent the U.S. Census Bureau from conducting nearly all surveys except for a population count every 10 years. For the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which relies on the
Read moreLawyers for nine organizations representing 400,000 aviation professionals, passengers and law enforcement officers filed a legal petition this week with Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole and copied to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano seeking to rescind plans to allow knives in the aircraft cabins for the first time since 9/11. “The Transportation Security Administration and
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit Court ruled Tuesday that requiring businesses to post a notice of workers’ rights to organize violates the employers’ right to free speech. It reverses an August 2011 regulation set forth by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that was meant to increase knowledge of employee rights to join a union, bargain collectively
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