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  • iMail , News May 30, 2013

    Pratt & Whitney Announces $1 Billion Pentagon Deal

    Aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney has agreed to a $1 billion agreement with the Pentagon for a fifth series of F-35 fighter jet engines. The deal means job security for thousands of IAM members at the company, a unit of United Technologies Corp. The contract covers 35 engines – 32 to be installed in F-35

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  • iMail , News May 30, 2013

    GVP Michalski Helps Launch Manufacturing Initiative at Goodwin College

    Goodwin College President Mark Scheinberg, left, and Congressman John Larson (D-CT), center, present IAM Headquarters General Vice President Rich Michalski, right, with a certificate commemorating the new Richard P. Michalski Scholarship program. IAM Headquarters General Vice President Rich Michalski joined Congressman John Larson (D-CT), Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy and Goodwin College President Mark Scheinberg in

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  • iMail , News May 28, 2013

    Midwest Territory Raffles $14,999 John Deere Equipment

    GVP Philip J. Gruber and Steve Johnson, Factory Manager at John Deere Horicon Works, along with IAM members who run the John Deere Gator line, the John Deere management team, IAM Local 873 leadership and IAM District 10 representatives. A voucher worth $14,999 toward the purchase of a John Deere vehicle is the next raffle

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  • iMail , News May 28, 2013

    Texas Bus Drivers Unanimously Approve Contract

    A group of 92 Tornado Bus Company drivers stood in solidarity to unanimously ratify an agreement that will pay them at the top wage scale per route and provide paid vacation, sick days and holidays. IAM members at the Texas-based company will also receive meal allowances, rest periods, health insurance and a 401k. Because the

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  • iMail , News May 28, 2013

    Machinists in Canada Ratify Contract with Ludachris Hats

    Members of IAM Local Lodge 1975, St. Thomas, ON, Canada, have ratified a new collective agreement with Ludachris Hats. The three-year agreement provides wage increases of 1.5 percent in the first and second year and 2 percent in the third year. The agreement also contains the implementation of a new shift schedule proposed by the

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