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The Southern Territory has nearly 100,000 IAM members in 21 District Lodges and more than 200 Local Lodges. Fourteen states make up the territory; Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
The South is the birthplace of the IAM. It was formed in a railroad pit in Atlanta, Georgia in 1888. The Southern Territory carries on the proud tradition of our founders, joining together to make life better for working families everywhere.
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With the U.S. light aircraft industry still in a financial tailspin, it’s hard to comprehend the recent Air Force decision favoring a Brazilian plane-maker over Wichita, KS-based Hawker Beechcraft for a $1 billion contract to build a new light air support aircraft.
Members of the IAM tend to participate in a lot of marches, but marches in the Big Easy, New Orleans, LA are quite different than your normal labor march.
Organizing and outreach efforts to young Machinists topped the agenda for the second Southern States Conference held in Myrtle Beach, SC.
The first IAM Human Rights Conference was held in Orlando, FL.
Local 733 members in Wichita, KS ratified a new agreement with Hawker Beechcraft by a 69 percent margin. The five-year contract protects jobs and preserves the defined-benefit pension plan for current and future employees.
Members of the Negotiating Committee representing 2,600 IAM members at Hawker Beechcraft (HBC) in Wichita, KS are unanimously recommending a ‘Yes’ vote on a tentative agreement reached this week between the IAM and Hawker Beechcraft.
District 75, Local 20, at Hurlburt AFB, FL is preparing for negotiations with Defense Support Services (DS2). The 200 newly-organized IAM members at the Hurlburt AFB maintain the aircraft fleet at the base, providing safe, quality aircraft for war fighters to prepare for combat. This will be their first contract.
Members of IAM Local Lodge 449, District 75 of Tyndall AFB in Florida voted by a 98 percent margin to ratify a new three year agreement with Defense Support Service (DS2).
IAM Local 839 member Brett Graham, a machinist at Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, will be featured tonight on the new TV show from Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA), Brotherhood Outdoors. The program airs at 8 p.m. EDT on the Sportsman Channel.
Fans of hunting and fishing can tune into a new show, “Brotherhood Outdoors,” sponsored by the Union Sportsmen's Alliance that features union members, including IAM Local 839 member Brett Graham, going on outfitted hunting and fishing adventures across North America.
While the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina continues to be memorialized in movies, songs and books, another storm is threatening to devastate the Gulf Coast with equivalent levels of economic devastation.
Nearly 3,800 members of Local 2003 at Ft. Rucker, AL, voted recently to ratify a new three-year agreement with Army Fleet Support. The pact includes annual raises of three percent and a 50 cent-increase in the employer’s contribution to the IAM Pension Plan over the term of the contract.
One hundred and thirty workers at Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, NC voted for IAM representation to improve their pay and benefits. The Service Contract workers are employed by URS Corporation and provide service to the base and helicopter fleet.
Representatives of Local 2003 at Ft. Rucker, AL, opened negotiations
this week with Army Fleet Services for a new collective bargaining
agreement covering over 3,500 workers at the sprawling army base. The
facility, located in southeastern Alabama, provides pilot training and
services for the U.S. Army’s helicopter fleet.
Wisconsin governor sits up and barks for the Koch brothers.
Of course, we already knew that...
Those crazy union-busting SC lawmakers are at it again!
Machinists Rally In Topeka, KS to support Wisconsin workers and to protest Kansas anti-union bills.
Wichita Machinists got some long-needed good news with the announcement
that the Defense Department has awarded Boeing with a contract to build
a new fleet of air-to-air refueling tankers for the U.S. Air Force.
Much of the work will be done at Boeing in Wichita, and at Boeing
sub-contractor Spirit Aerosystems, and this will mean many new jobs for
beleaguered Wichita Aerospace workers, who have been hit harder with
layoffs than any time since the Great Depression.
Southern Territory IAM members in Georgia and Florida
employed at Lockheed/Martin are involved in tough negotiations, as the current
contract expires on March 6
th. (Video included)
According
to an article in the Columbia Free Times,
the taxpayers of South Carolina will be paying for an anti-union law firm to
represent the state in a lawsuit by the Machinists Union
Flight instructors at the Florida Institute of Technology voted to join the IAM after concerns about unpaid hours and benefits.
Southern Territory GVP Bob Martinez was a featured guest this week on the Union Edge Radio Show, where he spoke with host Charles Showalter about the history of the IAM, the challenges of organizing in southern states and the IAM’s pending lawsuit against the newly-elected GOP Governor of South Carolina.
When Machinists say they’re going to do something, they do it, even if
an eight-hour trip turns into a two-day ordeal that included three flat
tires.
Local 2003 at Ft. Rucker, AL is preparing for tough negotiations with
Army Fleet Support. The 3,600 IAM members at the Army helicopter base
test, fly and maintain the large helicopter fleet at the base, providing
safe, quality helicopters to train our nation’s future Army aviators.
The current contract expires May 1.
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