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Taking part in a May 5, 1948 event celebrating the IAM’s 60th anniversary, members of Tom Talbot’s extended family gather in the locomotive pit where it all began in 1888. IAM founder Tom Talbot at age 19 in 1868. Sunday, May 5, 2013 marks the 125th anniversary of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Read moreAmong those who took part in this year’s Workers’ Memorial Day remembrance of IAM members killed on the job was Shawn and Deanna Woedl, whose brother, Local 447 member Carl “Rock” Root, 45, died on April 3, 2013 in a workplace accident. With the workplace tragedies of West, Texas and Bangladesh still fresh in the
Read moreIn a letter to President Barack Obama, IAM President Tom Buffenbarger urged the president to help prevent deep cuts to working Americans’ hard-earned pension benefits. “On behalf of the IAM, I write to express our strong opposition to the proposal being advanced by some in the multiemployer pension community,” wrote Buffenbarger. “Some poorly-run multiemployer plans
Read moreLongtime IAM Representative and labor activist John Capobianco, Sr., passed away at home on April 22. He was the retired Directing Business Representative (DBR) of District 170 (formerly District 64) and a lifetime member who initiated into the IAM in 1951. Capobianco was elected as a Business Representative in 1967, where he served until becoming
Read moreTwo Republican-backed bills with deceiving titles are making their way through Congress, and both threaten long-standing workers’ rights and the balance of power in the workplace. The first, the “Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor Management Relations Act” (H.R. 1120), would halt National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) activities until at least three of its members are
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