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Guests Ed Manhart, Calvin Davis and Andrea Gorman educate us about the IAM's Retirees Education and Strategy Program.
Guests: Clayola Brown, A. Philip Randolph Institute President and Ian Millhiser, author of Injustices which examines the Supreme Court's history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. Millhiser is also the Justice Editor of Think Progress, which is the news site run by the Center for American Progress.
Live from Las Vegas at the TCU/IAM Convention
Watch a preview of the largest annual conference for activists and organizers around the globe, as they share ideas and best practices.
Guests: Julian Vasquez Heilig, a member of the California Faculty Association and Jeff Hall of 617 Media Group, which helped the IAM to successfully fight privatization at the MBTA in Boston.
NFFE-IAM National Representative and Organizer Jerry McCarty joins us to talk about layoffs at Red River Army Depot. We also take a live look at the IAM Safety and Health Conference at the William W. Winpisinger Education Center in Hollywood, Maryland.
Guests Include : IAM District 66 Directing Business Rep Neil Kamrowski and Local 21 President Brad King join us to talk about the worker's strike at Trane. IAM Local President 1243 Mark Harvey talks about layoffs at Red River Army Depot.Tanya Hutchins will give us a live look-in to the Pride@Work National Conference. We also recap of the IAM Safety and Health Conference with IAM Coordinator Terri McClendon
This episode takes a look at our collective union victory against the administration's Executive Orders on federal workers. IAM Government Employees Director Jim Price and NFFE-IAM General Counsel Jeff Friday weigh in. More women are signing up for WRTP/BIG STEP in Wisconsin. Find out how the IAM and the Minnesota AFL-CIO are helping Minnesota workers facing pending layoffs. Plus, Union Plus Mortgage provides information on union mortgages for union families.
Union leader Linda Chavez-Thompson, who served as Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO, after working for LIUNA and AFSCME, joins us to talk about her union story, her life and her hopes for the future.
Members of the IAM give us their perspectives on their jobs, the industry and the Aerospace Conference in our Southern Territory.
IAM Local 62A President Mary White updates the strike in Connecticut, member Brittany Anderson discusses her new role in Pride at Work and Labor 411 Founder Cherri Senders, President of Senders Communications Group, introduces us to the organization's Buy Union movement.
Owen Herrnstadt, Director of the IAM's Trade and Globalization Department, explains the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
This episode takes a look at differing grievance procedures and the AFL-CIO's Metal Trades Conference.
A look at the history of the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center with Director Chris Wagoner. The Winpisinger Center is named after former IAM International President William W. Winpisinger, a man whose dream and efforts made the facility a reality. For more information, visit https://winpisinger.iamaw.org
New LCLAA President Yanira Merino discusses the upcoming Latina Equal Pay Day, IAM Organizing Director Vinny Addeo gives us an update and Asst. Director of Communications Jonathan Battaglia previews the latest IAM Journal.
This is the full recording of the Activate L!VE episode with the Women's Leadership Program. Guests include: Jessica Ford, Moná Kendrick, Bilan Arte and Rhonda Rogers.
This episode looks at the campaign to get out the vote (GOTV) in Ohio, a recap of Convoy for a Cause in Maine, raising awareness about disabled workers and an introduction to the AFL-CIO's new podcast, "State of the Unions," with Executive Speechwriter Tim Schlittner and Political Mobilization Director Julie Greene.
The fight to save manufacturing jobs in Chula Vista, California; Will Attig, Executive Director of the Union Veterans Council, gives us a Veterans Day Preview. IAMAW General Secretary Treasurer Dora Cervantes discusses her pending Gift of Sight Award from Guide Dogs of America.
Jack Dinsdale gives us an update on Amtrak, Jim Price sets the record straight on official time and Zack Gittlen previews Guide Dogs of America's Winpisinger Weekend.
We highlight our NFFE-IAM members who work to fight wildfires in California and Kevin Cummings provides an update on Council FIRE, the Council for First Inhabitants Rights and Equality for National Native American Heritage Month.