Organizing
The importance of organizing should not be lost on any member in the Machinists Union. Our future contracts depend on more of our members in each industry gaining power at work.
The Eastern Territory maintains a constant focus on achieving and surpassing this goal for the IAM.
As each bargaining unit works towards an industry leading contract, each contract improvement leads to an increase in the contract at the next company, creating a constant cycle of improvement for working families.
Don’t leave your friends, neighbors or community behind; organize them today.
Employee Free Choice Act
Unfortunately, current law puts the decisions about forming unions and bargaining in the hands of corporations, not workers. In our company-dominated system, corporations deny workers the freedom to choose a union, and they have free rein to coerce, intimidate and even fire employees to keep them from forming a union to bargain for their economic well-being.
More than three dozen of the nation’s top economists call on Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act to help restore an economy that works for everyone, built on a sustainable, wage-based growth.
In a statement, signed by 39 of America’s top economists, including two Nobel Prize winners, points to the failure of U.S. labor laws to protect employees’ freedom to form a union and bargain as a major factor in our economic crisis.
Visit The Eastern Territory Employee Free Choice Act Page
YRC, Inc.
Buffalo, New York :
Members are mechanics from former Roadway location - joined District 15.
First Student
Freeport and Hicksville, NY:
Members are auto/disel mechanics and fuelers for the company - joined District 15.
Vantage Maangement Services
Members provide building services in New York City - joined District 15.
Computer Sciences Corporation
Flight Simulator Maintenance Employees in Deapauville, NY - under the Service Contract Act joined District 65.
Autoport Votes 100% IAM
Employees at Autoport Limited in Pontiac, Michigan voted unanimously to join the IAM recently. The new IAM members load rail cars and will belong to Local Lodge 698.
"The employees at Autoport chose the IAM because they recognized the full advantages the IAM has to offer," said, District 60 Organizer Beau Jencks. "Thanks to GLR Ray Briggs and District 60 DBR Bobby Atanasovski for their valuable support."
Universal Fuel
Fuelers for Universal Fuel at PAX River Naval Air Station in Maryland recently voted to join the IAM. The new members will belong to District 4.
Greendale Police Department
Greendale Police Department in Lawrenceburg, IN joined the IAM and will belong to Local Lodge 1391, District Lodge 34.
District 60 Adds New Members For New Year
District Lodge 60 won its first representational election of the year recently. Mechanics at Star Truck Rental in Livonia, MI voted to join the IAM on January 10th.
Read More here.
Clark Steel Joins Local 1943
56 workers at Clark Steel in Monroe, OH voted to join the IAM. The new IAM members will belong to Local 1943 in Middletown, OH.
Read More here.
District 15 Receives Voluntary Recognition At Four Locations
District 15 recently won voluntary recognition for new IAM members at four locations.
Read More here.
Police Officers Association Affiliate With IAM
The Stewartstown Police Officers Association recently affiliated with the IAM and the new members will belong to District 98 in York, PA.
