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From left, Chriscia Robinson, Cordith Bowen, Darci McLaren, Ishmael Arroyo, Emilie Shewmaker, Manny Rivero, Carli Meneses, John Langwell, Cori Horowitz, Sara Gonzales, Edana Roque, Monica Pasillas, Alma Rodriguez, Annie Ross and her son Maliki. IAM Local 2339 in Newark, NJ continued its annual participation in AIDS Walk New York raising a total of $1,765. Members,
Read moreFrom left: Zulma Martinez, District 776 Organizer Sylvia Zavala, Edith DeAlba and District 776 Organizer Chub McCrory. IAM District 776 can chalk up another important organizing win, this time in Laredo, TX. Seventy-three workers at the Rio Grande Detention Center, employed by GEO Group, voted overwhelmingly to join the IAM.
Read moreIAM District 751 members showed up in force against Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership when Secretary of State John Kerry pushed the deal at a Boeing plant in Renton, WA. After another round of intense pressure from the White House, the Senate narrowly voted to end debate on President Obama’s Fast-Track trade authority bid
Read moreAFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, left, smacked down a Republican presidential hopefuls claim that unions are the cause of the gender pay gap. In a recent editorial, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler debunks a ridiculous claim by Republican presidential hopeful and former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina that union workplaces foster pay discrepancies between men and women.
Read moreEighth-grader Jared Podgorny spent a day job shadowing at the IAM’s Midwest Territory office in Joliet, IL, then brought back T-shirts for the rest of his class at Manhattan Junior Hill. Jared Podgorny, an eighth-grader from Manhattan, IL, worked closely with IAM Grand Lodge Representative Rick Mickschl during Job Shadowing Day at the IAM Midwest
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