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  • iMail , News June 4, 2013

    ‘Atlanta’s Hometown Union’ Makes Triumphant Return to the South

    Participants to the 2013 IAM National Staff Conference in Atlanta gather on the Georgia State House steps holding signs proclaiming the IAM as “Atlanta’s Hometown Union” and wearing shirts commemorating the union’s 125th anniversary. The 2013 IAM Staff Conference closed with a rousing march to the Georgia State House and a rededication of Machinists Union

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  • iMail , News June 4, 2013

    Photo and Newsletter/Website Contest Deadline Extended to June 14

    The new deadline to enter the 2013 IAM Newsletter and Website Contest and the 2013 IAM Photo Contest is now Friday, June 14, 2013. The Newsletter and Website Contest is open to all good-standing local and district lodges who regularly distribute official newsletters and/or maintain regularly-updated websites. A panel of independent judges will consider newsletters

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  • iMail , News June 4, 2013

    IAM Joins New Connecticut Manufacturing Initiative

    The IAM has joined newly-elected U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-CT), local business leaders and others in launching a new manufacturing initiative in Connecticut. Together the groups convened a panel to discuss ways the federal government can help sustain Connecticut’s manufacturing sector. “We haven’t done a lot in Washington about manufacturing because

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  • iMail , News June 4, 2013

    Grupo de Instructores de Liderazgo en Español Evalúan y Revisan el Plan de Estudios en el Centro Winpisinger

    Miembros de los EE.UU. y Canadá, que representa a muchos países de América Latina, incluyendo Puerto Rico, México, Argentina, Chile y la República Dominicana, conforman el grupo de liderazgo en español (SLWG), que se reunió en el Centro William W. Winpisinger en Hollywood, MD. El diverso grupo se ha encargado de la revisión, y actualización

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  • News May 31, 2013

    IAM Mourns International Labor Leader Marcello Malentacchi

    The global labor movement lost a good friend and a strong ally when Marcello Malentacchi (left), the General Secretary of the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF), died recently while cycling near his birthplace in Tuscany, Italy. Marcello Malentacchi, a 20-year General Secretary of the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) and a close friend of the IAM, passed

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