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  • iMail , News March 4, 2014

    TCU-IAM, Long Island Rail Road Coalition Hold Solidarity Briefing

    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

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  • iMail , News February 28, 2014

    Report of Nominations for Grand Lodge Officers

    IAM 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.

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  • iMail , News February 27, 2014

    IAM District 9 Truck Drivers Win Huge Back-Pay Settlement

    IAM 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

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  • iMail , News February 27, 2014

    Black History Month: Earl Robinson Shares Inspirational Story

    Earl 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

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  • iMail , News February 27, 2014

    NFFE-IAM Calls on Congress to Up Federal Worker Pay

    NFFE-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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