The IAM and the United Launch Alliance opened negotiations for a new contract covering 830 workers at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, Local Lodge 2786; Decatur, AL, Local Lodge 44 and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, Local Lodge 610. As the IAM opened negotiations with United Launch Alliance (ULA) in Huntsville, AL, ULA announced
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Read moreThis year, April 14 is the day that symbolizes how much extra a woman must work in 2015 to make the same as a man did in 2014. According to the latest census data, women working full-time earn just 78 cents for every dollar earned by men, amounting to a yearly wage gap of $10,876.
Read moreWalmart, McDonalds and thousands of other low-wage and fast food workers are staging strikes and rallies in hundreds of cities nationwide and 35 countries as part of the growing Fight for $15 movement to raise workers’ wages to $15 per hour and have the right to join a union. The movement is steadily growing and
Read moreFrom left, Calixto Tapia, IAM District 725 Organizer; Joe Solis, IAM Special Representative; Diane Babineaux, IAM General Vice President; Alfredo Silva, IAM District 160 Organizer; Steve Cooper, IAM Grand Lodge Representative; and Monica Silbas, IAM Legislative Representative at the AFL-CIO “We Rise!” immigration summit in Washington, DC. A group of IAM members spent a week
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