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Tim Klima IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger today announced the appointment of Grand Lodge Representative Tim Klima as an additional Airline Coordinator for the 100,000 plus member Transportation Department. A 32 year IAM veteran and former Northwest Airlines employee, Klima will join Airline Coordinator Tom Brickner and be responsible for the department’s collective bargaining, organizing
Read moreThe IAM is joining with unions around the world calling attention to deadly working conditions at a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, where more than 100 workers were killed in a fire reminiscent of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. The fire at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory started in a
Read moreThe extraordinary work of Guide Dogs of America (GDA) was summed up by a recent graduate in an IAM video about the annual William W. Winpisinger Charity Banquet in Las Vegas, NV. “He has changed my life,” declared a beaming Luetta Johnson of Lincoln NE, who was paired up with her dog in April at
Read moreCongress has until the end of the year to strike a deal avoiding across-the-board, mandatory spending cuts known as “sequestration” and a series of expiring tax measures, including the middle-class payroll tax cut and extended unemployment insurance benefits. The so-called “fiscal cliff” threatens to prolong the Great Recession if Congress refuses to act. Trillion dollar
Read moreThe 2013 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Observance will take place January 17-21 in Philadelphia, PA and will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington. The Observance will also coincide with the inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2013.
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