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Retired Machinists in Minnesota join to form the Minnesota State Council of Machinists Retirees to effect change for retirees and working families in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. After much planning and collaboration, a core group of dedicated and persistent retired Machinists have officially formed the Minnesota State Council of Machinists Retirees. The Council says
Read moreIAM International President Tom Buffenbarger listens to a House committee hearing on proposed legislation to cut existing retirees’ pension plans. Photo: Rick Reinhard The IAM will not stand idly by as Congress attempts to pass legislation that would allow “deeply-troubled” multi-employer pension plans to cut benefits for current retirees, said IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger
Read moreA congressional budget conference committee made up of Senate and House members met for the first time Wednesday, October 30, in a joint effort to avoid another government shutdown and to address a second round of sequestration spending cuts scheduled to take effect January 15, 2014. Lawmakers must strike a deal on the impending $109
Read moreIn response to a complaint filed by the IAM, the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Committee on Freedom of Association found that the Conservative Canadian Government violated international labor rights when it passed the so-called Protecting Air Services Act (Bill C-33), a measure that made it illegal for members of the IAM and the Pilots Union
Read moreThe IAM has joined with the United Steelworkers and United Auto Workers in a joint proposal to protect workers in each of the countries signed-on to the overly-ambitious, extremely-flawed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed free trade agreement that’s currently being negotiated in secrecy and with no congressional oversight. The proposal provides recommendations on how “rules
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