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Women’s History Month: The Rise of IAM Women during the Mid-1900s

Facing routine discrimination, women workers in the U.S. proved detractors wrong in the 1940s as they competently filled vacant jobs that were left open as millions of men left to fight in WWII.

iMail , News April 27, 2017

Freedom Day: How the Machinists Union Stood with South Africans to Overcome Apartheid

The Machinists Union—and the North American labor movement—had a larger role in taking down the institutional racism of South African apartheid than you may have thought. Twenty-three years ago, on April 27, 1994, South Africa held its first national election in which non-whites were allowed to vote. The people elected Nelson Mandela, a civil rights

Women’s March on Washington

Machinists Union members and constituency groups from across the United States were part of the Women’s March on Washington, to put the government on notice that we will never stop fighting for equal rights, equal pay and our right to organize.

The Women of the IAMAW

Women were first admitted to the Machinists Union with equal rights in 1911. The IAMAW’s Secretary-Treasurer and one of its General Vice Presidents are women, but women are still in the minority when it comes to membership in the Machinists Union. The women in this video explain why women’s voices must be heard. The song

iMail , News August 25, 2011

Human Rights Conference on Twitter

If you are unable to attend the 2011 IAM Human Rights Conference, you can follow the conference on Twitter with the hashtag #iamhrc11. Attendees are encouraged to tweet about their experience and use the #iamhrc11 hashtag, as well. The Human Rights Conference, themed Embracing Diversity in the House of Labor, will be held September 1st

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Women’s History Month: The Rise of IAM Women during the Mid-1900s

Freedom Day: How the Machinists Union Stood with South Africans to Overcome Apartheid

Women’s March on Washington

The Women of the IAMAW

Human Rights Conference on Twitter

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