Amanda Goodman Berry, a Delta Air Lines worker who is helping to organize workers into the IAM, celebrates Black History Month by discussing the activism of Rosa Parks. In 1955, Parks made history by refusing to give up her seat to a white person aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., a defiant move that
Read moreU.S. Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) was joined by labor leaders at the U.S. Capitol to oppose the Fiscal Commission Act, legislation that would create a shady “fiscal commission” with the power to make quick cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Former IAM General Vice President and current Alliance for Retired Americans President, Robert Roach, also
Read moreAmanda Goodman Berry, a Delta Air Lines worker who is helping to organize workers into the IAM, celebrates Black History Month by discussing the life of Thomas “T.O.” Oliver Jones, a union organizer who helped lead the iconic Memphis Sanitation Strike that was championed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Read moreThe Washington State Council of Machinists recently met in Olympia, Wash., for a political and legislative conference, one of four scheduled this year. Political candidates from around the state spoke to IAM members about their labor agendas. Machinists also lobbied inside the state capitol and pushed for legislation expanding labor protection, union organizing and workers’
Read moreIAM members, including IAM International President Brian Bryant, attended this year’s AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference held in Montgomery, Ala., the birthplace of the civil rights movement.
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