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IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger announced the appointment of District 75 Business Representative Anthony Wirth to Southern Territory Special Representative, effective February 1, 2015. Wirth, an aircraft painter by trade and a charter member of IAM Local 20 in Niceville, FL, helped organize his bargaining unit at Eglin Air Force Base while they were employees
Read moreThe deadline to apply for a 2015 IAM Scholarship Award will be here before you know it. Applications must be postmarked no later than February 25, 2015 to be considered. The competition is open each year to eligible IAM members in the United States and Canada and eligible children in their last year of high
Read moreSocial media was at the top of the list for discussion during the recent IAM Southern Territory Staff Conference, and the attending leadership of the territory was excited about the use of social media and increased communications with region’s membership. Southern Territory General Vice President Mark Blondin directed the creation of the Southern Territory Facebook
Read moreWisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is going to need a new entrance song. The anti-union governor, best known for stripping collective bargaining rights for most Wisconsin public employees, played the Dropkick Murphys’ hit song “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” as he bounced onto an Iowa stage to deliver remarks this past weekend. The outspokenly pro-worker
Read moreThe IAM is continuing to sound the alarm to Congress on the grave danger of approving “Fast Track” trade authorization for the secretly-negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade agreement that will allow more of the same trade policies that have hurt working families for the last 20 years. President Obama is asking Congress to
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