TCU-IAM National Vice-President and Assistant to the President Joel Parker addresses the media on the labor impasse between TCU-IAM’s Long Island Rail Road coalition partners and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. TCU-IAM and its Long Island Rail Road coalition partners – SMART and NCFO-SEIU – held an historic solidarity briefing with TWU Local 100 at the
Read moreIAM members in more than 800 local lodges in the United States and Canada have concluded nominations and runoff votes where necessary to determine lodge endorsements for the IAM Executive Council positions of International President, General Secretary-Treasurer and, for U.S. locals, eight General Vice Presidents. Click here for a complete tabulation of local lodge endorsements.
Read moreIAM District 9, Local 777 drivers at Unimark Truck Transport in Bridgeton, MO, have won a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) suit against the company that could net over $1 million in back pay spread across up to 300 members. Click here to read the NLRB decision. An NLRB administrative law judge earlier this week
Read moreEarl Robinson, the first African American to serve as an Assistant Director of MNPL, speaks at IAM Headquarters in Upper Marlboro, MD. Former Machinists Non-Partisan Political League (MNPL) Assistant Director Earl Robinson, the first African American to serve in that position, recently spoke about his trailblazing career at IAM Headquarters as part of the IAM’s
Read moreNFFE-IAM National President William R. Dougan says a one percent pay adjustment is “woefully insufficient” for hard-working federal employees. Following reports that the President will propose a one percent pay increase for federal employees in his upcoming budget, William R. Dougan, National President of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM), says Congress should act
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