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IAM Debuts ‘Training Wheels’ Issue Ad The IAM is rolling out ‘Training Wheels,’ a brand new issue ad to highlight the alarming lack of skilled training opportunities for America’s next generation of workers. While half a trillion dollars of local, state and federal money are spent each year on higher education, nearly all of it
Read moreMachinists Rally Iowa Union Members for Clinton Labor leaders from four of the nation’s largest trade unions were joined by former Vice President Walter Mondale and former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack for a full day of campaigning in Iowa on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Union members turned out in
Read moreCongress Puts NSPS to Rest Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is long gone and now Congress is giving the boot to a big part of his National Security Personnel System (NSPS), too. After years of court battles, legislative fights and a nationwide grassroots campaign by defense workers and their unions, the final 2008 Defense Authorization
Read moreMachinist to Lead Kentucky Labor Department Kentucky’s Democratic Governor-elect Steve Beshear named IAM member J.R. Gray as the state’s new Commissioner of Labor. Gray is a retired Directing Business Representative (DBR) of District Lodge 154 in Calvert City, KY and has served 26 years in the Kentucky House of Representatives, much of that time as
Read moreThe Human Toll of Chinese Imports As Americans continue to express outrage over Chinese-made products being recalled due to toxic lead levels, a new report looks at the large number of Chinese workers who are losing their lives producing these products. The report was prepared by Salt Lake Tribune reporter Loretta Tofani, who spent fourteen months in
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