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  • iMail , News January 23, 2014

    Young Machinists Gather to Plan Labor’s Future

    More than a hundred union members from IAM, TCU and NFFE worked all day to construct frames for six Habitat for Humanity homes in San Antonio, TX. It’s a common refrain from critics, or maybe a family member or colleague: “Young people are too apathetic to care about labor unions or workers’ rights.” It couldn’t

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  • iMail , News January 23, 2014

    Congress Introduces Bill to Update 1965 Voting Rights Act

    Demonstrators picket in favor of equal voting rights outside the GOP convention hall in Chicago in July 1960. Photo by Francis Miller/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images When the Supreme Court overturned critical portions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in June of last year, it kicked the responsibility of replacement legislation to one of the least-productive

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  • iMail , News January 23, 2014

    IAM, NY Labor Leaders Rally Against ‘Fast Track’ Trade Deal

    IAM District 15 Business Representative Jim Conigliaro, Sr., flanked by dozens of union supporters at a rally in New York, demands Congress votes “No” on a bill to reauthorize “fast track” authority on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. IAM Directing Business Representative Jim Conigliaro, Sr., of District 15 in New York, joined fellow New

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  • iMail , News January 23, 2014

    IndustriALL Condemns Murder of Colombian Trade Unionist

    IndustriALL Global Union joins the Colombian labor movement in denouncing the vicious attack of another trade union leader in Colombia. 2014 has started with fear and sadness in Colombia as attacks and criminalization of social protests continue. The latest incident occurred on January 10 when workers of the hydroelectric Caldas-CHEC-of SINTRAELECOL-CUT, an IndustriALL Global Union

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  • iMail , News January 21, 2014

    IAM Shipbuilders, Federal Workers See Gains in Spending Bill

    A $100 million allocation for a fifth DDG-51 destroyer at Bath Iron Works (BIW) and a one percent pay raise for blue-collar NFFE-IAM and other federal members were among the spending items included in a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill passed in the House and Senate last week. The legislation prevented another government shutdown by

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