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There was nothing small about this campaign. The numbers of new members – 2,400, the numbers of meetings held over a six-day period with these members – 36, the strength of the proven track record of representation for workers: it all adds up to make the IAM a major player in Ontario’s Health Care Sector.
Read moreMore than 100 supporters of IAM Local 818 attended a rally yesterday in Glen Dale, WV to show solidarity to the members on strike at Tecnocap. Members and their families showed up in force along with retirees, other unions and government officials.
Read moreIAM members attending the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center last week gathered to send a message of support to the Canadian hockey community, the town of Humboldt and all Canadians following the horrific accident that took the lives of 16 young people aboard a junior hockey league team bus.
Read moreSitting on the serene banks of the Patuxent River in southern Maryland is the IAM’s world-class labor education facility, the Winpisinger Center. Every year, thousands of Machinists Union members travel here to learn skills in organizing, negotiating, union leadership and more.
Read moreThe WAGE Act would amend the National Labor Relations Act to strengthen protections for workers who want to organize and promote change through forming a union or other collective action.
Aviation High School, an education training center that’s sponsored by the IAM, competed in front of thousands of people at the annual Aerospace Maintenance Competition in Orlando.
Read moreU.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, who has been sounding the alarm on a pending pension crisis and was named co-chair of the newly-formed Joint Select Committee on the Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans, spoke at a National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Sen. Brown continues to work to strengthen and improve programs that protect
Read moreDozens of union leaders gathered in Washington, DC to ask Congress to maintain the Jones Act, a law that says goods shipped between US ports must be transported on ships that are owned, operated and made by Americans. The law has provided job security for Machinist members who build ships around the country. But in
Read moreIAM International President Robert Martinez, Jr. led hundreds of Machinists back to Memphis to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The civil rights leader died while assisting the city’s striking sanitation workers who were fighting for better working conditions.
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