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Maria Cordone, center, former Director of the IAM Retirees’ Department and current Executive Vice-Chair of the Democratic National Committee Seniors’ Coordinating Council, addresses senior participants at a recent Council meeting in Washington, DC. Nearly a hundred seniors and retirees, including retired IAM sisters and brothers, attended a recent Democratic National Committee (DNC) Seniors’ Coordinating Council
Read moreAccording to a senior economic development official in St. Louis, the Boeing Company was poised to announce that St. Louis would build the 777X if Machinists in the Pacific Northwest voted to reject a multi-year contract extension on January 3, 2014. In an article published this week in the Puget Sound Business Journal, St. Louis
Read moreUnion membership is below the national average in every southern state, and working families are suffering because of it. Join the campaign to #OrganizeTheSouth by texting SOUTH to 235246. Over 50 years after the civil rights movement caught fire, and 125 years since the IAM was born in an Atlanta locomotive pit, social and economic
Read moreMembers of IAM Local 2783 gathered at the William W. Winpisinger Center to prepare for upcoming negotiations with the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in St. Mary’s, GA. First row, left to right: Joe Roberts (Steward), Paul Huesser (Trustee), Bob Branson (President). Second row: Bill Wethman (Conductor-Sentinel), Brian Danko, Bill Gideon, Jeffrey Bragg (Communicator). Third
Read moreOpponents of measures to increase federal and state minimum wages have long said higher wages will cost the country jobs and economic growth. Well, a recent Bloomberg report debunks that theory. The article points to Washington state, where residents in 1998 voted to raise the state’s minimum wage and link it to the cost of
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