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This Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day in Canada, Tuesday, November 11, 2014, the IAM honors our members in the armed forces who are serving and have served our nations. “Thousands of IAM members have proudly served their country. And many fight on two battlefields – the ongoing fight here at home for
Read moreIAM International President Tom Buffenbarger has appointed District 78 Directing Business Representative Ralph Martin to Special Representative for Canada. Martin joined IAM Local 863 in January 1990 while working at Ball Packaging Products in Burlington, Ontario, just west of Toronto. He immediately became involved with his union being elected Shop Steward that same year. He
Read moreThe Grand Lodge monthly per capita tax for 2015 will be $33.23 reports General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., in a letter to all IAM District and Local Lodges. The figure was calculated using the formula approved by Delegates to the 2008 Grand Lodge Convention. The 1.80 percent increase is based on “the average of the
Read moreThe Seaway Task Force, a coalition of labor, investors and company professionals, is making considerable progress in its mission to update aged shipping infrastructure and sustain and grow new jobs in the Great Lakes, writes IAM Eastern Territory General Vice President Lynn Tucker, Jr., in a guest editorial to the Great Lakes Seaway Review. Shipping
Read moreTuesday’s elections brought disappointing results for union members and working families, but voters went out of their way to support minimum wage initiatives in numerous states. While the GOP took control of the U.S. Senate and widened its majority in the House, voters in Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Nebraska and South Dakota overwhelmingly passed minimum wage
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