This article was featured in the Winter 2025-2026 IAM Journal and was written by IAM Communications Representative Bill Harkum. The 2025 IAM Transportation Conference gathered more than 800 IAM delegates from the Air Transport and Rail Divisions of the IAM Union at the biennial convention this summer in Las Vegas. The purpose of this year’s
Read moreThis article was featured in the Winter 2025-2026 IAM Journal and was written by IAM Communications Representatives Angela Colaizzi. Well before contract talks for Connecticut Locals 700 and 1746 (District 26) began with Pratt & Whitney, IAM Union members were building solidarity for what they anticipated would be a showdown. Members at the company’s Middletown
Read moreThis article was featured in the Winter 2025-2026 IAM Journal and was written by IAM Communications Representatives John Carr. After nearly two years without raises and working under expired conditions, a coalition of powerful rail unions, including IAM Local 318, Transportation Communications Union/IAM (TCU/IAM),the Brotherhood Railway Carmen (BRC), and American Railway and Airway Supervisors Association
Read moreThis article was featured in the Winter 2025-2026 IAM Journal and was written by IAM Communications Representatives Elias Flamenco Rivera & Valana Cochran. IAM Union Western Territory members don’t just talk solidarity – they live it. A quiet yet determined army, perhaps unknown to the IAM membership, works every day to protect and empower immigrant
Read moreThis article was featured in the Summer 2025 IAM Journal and was written by IAM Communications Representative John Carr. The IAM Midwest Territory continues to demonstrate its commitment to community service through its “IAM H.E.L.P.S. in the Community” program. This initiative, which stands for Honoring, Engaging, Lifting, Providing, and Servicing, reflects the union’s mission to make
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