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  • iMail , News July 23, 2013

    Global Woodworkers Union Condemns Jeld-Wen Labor Violations

    Facing a disgruntled workforce and a grassroots IAM organizing movement, management at window and door manufacturing company Jeld-Wen are resorting to further labor violations to suppress and intimidate its workforce. Builders and Woodworkers International (BWI), the world’s largest global union federation representing wood and construction worker unions, have found that a Jeld-Wen corporate leaflet distributed

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  • iMail , News July 23, 2013

    Study Reveals Massive Job Loss in South Korea-U.S. Trade Deal

    A new Economic Policy Institute study reveals the harsh reality of the “over-hyped” and job-killing Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) and warns of the further potential job loss the Trans-Pacific Partnership would inflict upon the American middle class. Instead of increasing U.S. exports from “$10 billion to $11 billion” and supporting “70,000 American jobs from

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  • iMail , News July 23, 2013

    Portland Members Vote to End Strike at Daimler Truck Plant

    IAM members returning to work at Daimler after a three week strike.  Members ratified terms of a new contract on July 22, 2013. In a close vote, IAM members of Local 1005 at Daimler’s Swan Island Truck Plant in Portland, OR ratified new contract terms on July 22, after being on the strike lines since

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  • iMail , News July 23, 2013

    Mechanic Pensions on the Line in US Airways Election

    It’s not often a group of workers can save their pensions and protect their seniority by the simple act of casting a ballot, but that’s exactly what’s happening right now as IAM-represented Mechanic and Related workers at US Airways vote in the current representation election. “IAM Mechanic and Related workers at US Airways will lose

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  • iMail , News July 18, 2013

    Plan Now for 2013 Retirees Conference

    Attendees of the 2012 Regional Retirees Conference in Atlantic City, NJ. Are you ready to have fun with IAM Brothers and Sisters and safeguard hard-won union benefits?  If so, join us for the 2013 Retirees Conference at Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel.  In the past, an average of 750 Brothers and Sisters have gathered to reminisce

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