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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2020 — Machinists Union International President Robert Martinez Jr. released the following statement regarding a reported “mini” U.S.-Brazil trade deal: “If recent reports are true, the Trump administration is working on a trade deal that will send more U.S. jobs out of our country, this time to Brazil. As reported today, in
Read moreWASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2020 – Eighty-nine Machinists Union (IAM) Local 1855 members at AstenJohnson in Appleton, Wis. began striking for a fair contract today at 7 a.m. CT. The striking IAM members at AstenJohnson, who produce specialty fabric for the paper industry, are seeking reasonable healthcare expenses and cost sharing. IAM Local 1855 members rejected
Read moreWASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2020 – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today began a video series exposing the human cost of President Trump’s broken promises that U.S. workers “won’t lose one plant” and declarations that “[plants] are all coming back.”
Read moreWASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2020 — The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) issued the following statement after Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Air Carrier Worker Support Extension Act of 2020, which would extend the airline worker Payroll Support Program (“PSP”) through March 2021: A statement from IAM International
Read moreA statement from IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr.: “The Biden-Harris Plan to Fight for Workers by Delivering on Buy American and Make it in America is a comprehensive, effective and achievable plan to curtail the offshoring that has left hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers unemployed. This plan will work to brings jobs home,
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