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On January 3, 2014, more than 30,000 IAM members at Boeing will have an opportunity to cast ballots on an historic proposal that would locate 777X wing fabrication and final assembly in Puget Sound. The proposal, which extends the current IAM-Boeing agreement to 2024, also contains an eight-year extension of the commitment to build the
Read moreThe December 2013 IAM Journal is now available to download via the new IAM Mobile 3.0 app. In this month’s issue: Budget Doesn’t Bring Holiday Cheer to Federal Workers, Unemployed Machinists Warn TPP Will Put U.S. Manufacturing on ‘Endangered Species List’ IAM Retirees, Women Bridge Generational Divide Guide Dogs Honor Gruber, Zannella, Mersky Connecticut IAM
Read moreThe IAM is calling on Congress to approve funding that would offset a sequestration cut preventing the U.S. Navy from purchasing a full fleet of DDG-51-class destroyer ships. IAM members at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Maine are scheduled to build four out of the 10 ships ordered in the Fiscal Year 2013-17 procurement. Huntington-Ingalls
Read moreThe IAM calls for an extension of federal unemployment benefits after the Senate approved a budget deal Wednesday that left 1.3 million jobless Americans, including 20,000 veterans, out in the cold. “While the official unemployment rate has shrunk to 7 percent, our economy still has 1.3 million fewer jobs than before the start of the
Read moreStaff members at IAM Headquarters donated and wrapped presents for two needy families in the Washington, DC area. As the holidays draw closer, IAM Headquarters and Local Lodge 1943 in Middletown, OH, have been busy making the season just a little bit brighter for families in their communities. Staff at Headquarters spent the last two
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