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  • iMail , News September 5, 2013

    Fort Worth Machinists Raise Over $15,000 for Guide Dogs

    Former IAM Local Lodge 2003 Educator Teresa Blevins, who lost her sight in 2009, is one of many to receive a trained guide dog from GDA. IAM District Lodge 776 in Fort Worth, TX hit the links recently to raise over $15,000 for the Guide Dogs of America (GDA). The IAM teamed up with the

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  • iMail , News September 5, 2013

    Scholarship Helps Daughter of IAM Member Realize Dream of College Education

    Corinne Demler The IAM congratulates Corinne Demler, daughter of IAM member Jill Gaskell of Local 276, Blanchardville, WI, on winning a $5,000 AFL-CIO/Union Plus “Dreams of Jobs and Freedom” Scholarship. The AFL-CIO and Union Plus created the scholarship to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered

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  • iMail , News September 5, 2013

    IAM, US Airways to Meet With NMB

    The National Mediation Board (NMB) has scheduled a “status conference” with the IAM and US Airways in Washington D.C. on Tuesday September 10, 2013 regarding the Mechanic and Related and Fleet Service negotiations. The purpose of the meeting with the NMB is to discuss remaining issues and both parties’ positions on these issues. “We are

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  • iMail , News September 3, 2013

    Suarez Appointed Western Territory Special Representative

    Richard Suarez IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger has appointed Richard Suarez to the Western Territory staff. Suarez has been transitioning from his post as an Education Representative at the William W. Winpisinger Center to Grand Lodge Special Representative in Southern California for a couple of months now; his full transition was effective September 1. “Richard’s wealth

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  • iMail , News September 3, 2013

    Seewald Hired as Winpisinger Center Education Representative

    Miriam Seewald The IAM is proud to announce that Miriam Seewald has been hired as an Education Representative at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, MD, effective September 15, 2013. Seewald, an IAM member for over three decades, comes to the Winpisinger Center with a wealth of experience in the U.S.

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