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Tabulation of the ballots is taking place at IAM Headquarters under the direct supervision of U.S. Department of Labor representatives. The counting of IAM members’ votes for the election of IAM Grand Lodge Officers is underway and will proceed daily until all votes are tabulated. The count began May 7, 2014 at IAM Headquarters in
Read moreThe IAM’s supplemental insurance provider, Employee Benefit Systems (EBS), has tapped Jeffrey “Jeff” Grim to lead EBS’s nationally successful Machinists Custom Choices Worksite Benefits Program. Grim, 42, is a Marine Corps veteran and proven leader in the worksite insurance industry. “The board of directors of EBS are excited to have one of the country’s innovators
Read moreNearly 600 new jobs are expected at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Bath, ME by year’s end, say shipyard officials in a recent Kennebec Journal article. BIW will also be launching an on-site training facility to help tailor those workers’ skills. The expected hiring spree is in response to BIW contracts to build six destroyers
Read moreIAM Local 2003 members at Fort Rucker went on strike for a week after rejecting the “last, best and final” offer from L3 Communications. Nearly 3,000 Machinists of Local 2003 in Daleville, AL are back at work at Fort Rucker today after voting by a 92 percent margin to ratify a new contract offer from
Read moreThe site of the first Machinists Union meeting, a rail yard just minutes south of downtown Atlanta, was the filming site for a recent episode of The Walking Dead. The first members of the Machinists Union were facing dangerous work, long hours, and unfair pay when they gathered in a dusty Atlanta locomotive pit on
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