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On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers demanding the right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better life. Beginning with worship services over the April 1 weekend, and continuing through the week of April 4, unions,
Read moreCapitol Square in Madison, WI was filled to capacity with nearly 200,000 union activists who welcomed home the 14 state senators who stood up against Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on collective bargaining rights. More than 185,000 union members and supporters gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison to deliver a full-throated welcome
Read moreDistrict 142 General Chair Brent Thompson, Continental Flight Attendant Cari Kershaw, United Flight Attendant Dianne Tamuk and Continental Flight Attendant Raven Pearson answer questions at Dulles Airport. Support for the IAM among United Airlines’ Flight Attendants is growing quickly in response to the United/Continental/Continental Micronesia Flight Attendant Merger Road Shows, where IAM leaders and Flight
Read moreIn the op-ed “Guess Who Came to Dinner; Guess Who Didn’t Even Get Asked?” Leo Hindery, Chairman of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation, points to the president’s dinner in Silicon Valley last month with eight of his new “BFFs” – each the CEO of an internet-related company including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg,
Read moreIn a continuation of the coordinated attack on working families and their right to bargain collectively, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), along with seven other GOP members of the U.S. Senate, introduced national “right-to-work” legislation. Original co-sponsors include Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), James Risch (R-ID), Pat Toomey
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