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Unity and focus are critical when contract negotiations open, especially while coping with the coronavirus pandemic. Tuesday’s formal opening of negotiations between IAM Local 387 and GKN Aerospace showed how the union is adapting to the challenge head-on, with two members of the Executive Council in attendance.
Read moreOrganized labor and working families have taken a lot of abuse at the hands of politicians in the form of failed policy and anti-worker legislation over the past few decades. Many IAM members in the Midwest United States have felt that punishment more than other parts of the country.
Read moreAfter operating for over 20 years, Harley-Davidson closed its factory in Kansas City, MO in May 2019, resulting in the loss of jobs for about 800 IAM members. Harley’s announcement about the closing of the Kansas City plant coincided with their opening of an assembly plant in Thailand. “It was devastating,” said IAM member and
Read moreAfter operating for almost eight decades, Electrolux closed its factory in St. Cloud, Minnesota in November 2019, resulting in the loss of jobs for about 900 IAM Local 623 members. The plant, which accounted for roughly 17 percent of the town’s manufacturing jobs, was consolidated to the company’s non-union facility in Anderson, SC. “Ever since
Read moreEighty-nine IAM Local 1855 members at AstenJohnson in Appleton, Wisconsin last week voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new deal ending a nine-day strike over healthcare cost sharing.
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