The 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 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
Read moreMembers of the Tennessee State Council of Machinists met in Gatlinburg, TN to address issues facing active and retired IAM members across the Volunteer State. IAM President Tom Buffenbarger and members of the Executive Council traveled to the Tennessee State Council of Machinists meeting to deliver personal thanks to IAM activists in the Volunteer State
Read moreFormer U.S. Rep Jim Oberstar receives an honorary lifetime membership to the IAM at the 2012 Grand Lodge Convention. From left, TCU/IAM National President Robert Scardelletti, IAM Transportation GVP Sito Pantoja, Oberstar, IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger and IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr. Former U.S. Representative and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim
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