Southern Territory GLR Dave Porter swears in (left to right) LL 340 Vice President Willis Pinney, Recording Secretary Ana Rosa Morales, and President Mervyn Constantine After recent organizing wins in the U.S. Virgin Islands, IAM members are forming new Local Lodge 340. “We are starting the Local Lodge with strong members and true labor activists,”
Read moreTo listen to the Republican side of the deficit debate, U.S. corporations are overburdened with taxes and that’s why there are no jobs, leaving huge cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other social programs as the only way to balance the budget. But a new study by the Center for Tax Justice (CTJ) shows U.S.
Read moreAn online safety website which identifies potential threats on the internet has given the IAM website a poor safety rating. The Web of Trust (WOT) is an online company which asks its users to rate websites. Poor reviews by just a few visitors can negatively impact a website’s ratings and has caused www.goiam.org to receive
Read moreThe only standard that should be used to govern U.S. leaders’ decision to pass free trade agreements (FTAs) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama is whether they are in the best interest of American workers and the U.S. economy, says Leo Hindery, Chairman of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation, in an
Read moreThe effort to recall six Republican state senators in Wisconsin passed a key test this week when Democratic challengers easily defeated “fake” Democratic opponents in a round of primary elections forced by Republican Party members who filed to run as Democrats. Republicans ran the fake candidates to give the GOP state senators facing recall more
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