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Approximately 70 million Americans, including many IAM members, will receive an 8.7 percent cost-of-living increase in their Social Security benefits. The average retired worker can expect to receive an additional $140 per month starting in January 2023. Active and retired IAM members have been on the frontlines advocating for increasing earned Social Security benefits and
Read moreThe IAM Scholarship Competition is accepting applications for the 2023 year. The competition is open to members of the IAM and their children throughout the United States and Canada. Again, this year’s Scholarship Program will be fully accessible on goiam.org. Additionally, the IAM has a vocational-technical two-year scholarship available to members and their children. Please
Read moreAs we close out Hispanic American Heritage Month, celebrated every year from September 15 to October 15, we honor the work of those Latinos who have influenced our labor movement and our culture: César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Paul Montemayor, and Jack Otero, to only name a few. They have broken the barriers that attempted to
Read moreAt the end of the 2021-22 school year, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) District 10 filed Unfair Labor Practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Carmen Schools of Science and Technology for labor law violations stemming from their staff’s attempt to organize a union earlier this year. As
Read moreIAM Local 873 members in Horicon, WI, have voted to ratify a new agreement negotiated with John Deere Horicon Works with historic wage and benefit gains. The membership overwhelmingly voted “yes” to a new four-year contract. The many advancements in this groundbreaking agreement include general wage increases of over 32% throughout the life of the
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