Boilermakers host Ukrainian union leader
THE LEADER OF a Ukrainian shipyard union received a warm welcome March 22 at Local 1998 (National City, Calif.) and enjoyed a boat tour of the NASSCO shipyard from San Diego Bay.
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AFL-CIO News
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Retailers Key to Bangladesh Worker Safety, Investors Tell Walmart, Gap
A coalition of faith organizations, investors and labor groups—including the...
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Hall of Fame Honors Three Women Labor Trailblazers
Three pioneering and historic women labor trailblazers were inducted into ...
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Republican Filibuster Next Battle for NLRB Nominees?
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been under “relentless political...
The Boilermakers union has long participated in global labor solidarity. We are affiliated with IndustriALL Global Union as...
Global Union News
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Sustainable Industrial Policy launch
IndustriALL is launching an ambitious initiative on Sustainable Industrial...
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Zambian miners strike for wages
“Whilst we are happy with progress we are making in wage negotiations, we aslo...
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FNV trade union award goes to Said Iqbal
This year’s FNV Febe Elizabeth Velasquez Award went to Indonesian trade union...
BCTD Legislative Conference
April 21 - 26, 2013
Washington, DC
School for Workers - Basic Class
June 9 - 14, 2013
Madison, WI
School for Workers - Advanced Class
June 16 - 21, 2013
Madison, WI
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Capitol Hill brinkmanship imperils U.S. Navy
Sequestration will hit shipbuilders, country hard
AS THIS COLUMN is being written, it appears that Congress will fail to halt the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration. These cuts will strip away about $500 billion from the U.S. military and an equal amount from discretionary federal spending on a host of necessary programs.
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