IAM Organizing Committee for EMI Services in NC One hundred thirty three workers for EMI Services, LLC at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River in Jacksonville, NC voted IAM Yes for union representation. The Service Contract workers include all full-time and regular part-time maintenance and support employees. Laborers, warehouse
Read moreTeam America from Russellville, AL (Photo by Russellville City Schools Rockets and Robots) Seven students from Russellville, AL, with the help of IAM Local 44 member Preston Burns, won world final competition of the Rocketry Challenge at the Paris Air Show. Burns served as their technical mentor and traveled with the team throughout all of
Read moreIAM General Vice President Dora Cervantes has appointed IAM Local 837A Secretary-Treasurer Bryan Pinette to serve as a Grand Lodge Auditor. Pinette will service lodges in southern Missouri, Arkansas and Montana. “Bryan brings a fresh perspective and an innovative point of view to the General Secretary-Treasurer’s Department,” said Cervantes. “We welcome him on board and
Read moreIAM Grand Lodge Representative Edison Fraser, right, recently received his bachelor’s degree in labor studies from the National Labor College at a ceremony at Columbia University in New York. IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., left, was on hand to congratulate Fraser. When IAM Grand Lodge Representative Edison Fraser received his bachelor’s degree in labor
Read moreElderly and minority voters are among the targets of new voting restriction laws passing state legislatures throughout the country. Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. It gave the federal government the power to ensure that all citizens could vote and prohibited states with a history of
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