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National Action Network President Rev. Al Sharpton (center) is joined with allies from the labor, womens’ and immigrant rights community to announce a five-day march that will trace the route of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. Thousands of marchers from the civil, labor and human rights community are expected to take part
Read moreThe William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center (W3 Center) is looking for IAM members who are musicians, singers and/or poets and interested in producing the next chapter in the history of labor music and poetry. If you play an instrument, sing, or write music or poetry, the W3 Center is asking that you use
Read moreOwen Herrnstadt, the IAM’s Director of the Trade and Globalization Department, has been appointed by the U.S. State Department to co-Chair the newly-formed Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB) for implementation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Corporate Social Responsibility Guidelines. Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez announced the
Read moreRead the IAM Journal, the award-winning magazine of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), that is more timely, more useful, more video intensive, more quickly read and more action-oriented. The IAM is among the largest industrial trade unions in North America, with nearly 700,000 active and retired members in dozens of industries.
Read moreYesterday, the White House detailed its new Veterans Jobs Corps that will put 20,000 vets to work over the next five years. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki described it as a “bold new effort” to lower the unemployment rate for veterans. And Interior Secretary Ken Salazar suggested that the program – aimed at preserving
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