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
Read moreIAM 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
Read moreIndustriALL 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
Read moreA $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
Read moreMore than 200 hardworking members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and GrainMillers (BCTGM) International Union in Memphis have been locked out by global cereal-maker Kellogg in an attempt to force union acceptance of a plan to radically increase the use of “casual workers.” More than 200 hardworking members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers
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