IAM Tennessee Local 735 member Cody Wilder is credited for helping spark the idea of the IAM’s unioNation Band. The more than two-dozen dedicated IAM members recorded their first album two years later. The IAM’s unioNation is “rocking solidarity music that comes...

The IAM’s unioNation Band gathered at the Winpisinger Center to write, practice and perform 21 original labor songs. From left: David Riggs, Local 457; Billy Broughton, Local 1553; Mack McKinney, Local 2210; Jeffrey Jaspers, NFFE-IAM Local 1919; Brad Seefried, Local...