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  • iMail , News September 22, 2011

    Joe Madison Program to Air IAM Town Hall Meeting

    The Town Hall meeting that was a featured event at the 2011 IAM Human Rights Conference in Orlando, FL will air on the Joe Madison radio program on September 27, 2011. The program airs at 6:00 am and 8 pm Eastern time and can be heard on “The Power,” Channel 128, Sirius XM and in

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  • iMail , News September 22, 2011

    Machinists in Quebec Ink New Deal with Dettson

    Members of Local 992 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, have ratified a new collective agreement with Dettson Incorporated. “We began negotiations on June 7 and came to a tentative agreement by September 15,” explained Grand Lodge Representative Mario Clermont. “This is a new employer and the creation of a joint labor relations committee to look over the

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  • iMail , News September 22, 2011

    IAM Landscapers Honored for Excellence

    IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Warren Mart (right) and Ted Young of Pyramid Landscaping & Development, Inc. display the beautification award from Prince George’s County, MD. IAM-represented groundskeepers in Maryland were honored with awards for landscaping excellence at private and commercial properties in Prince Georges County, including the grounds at IAM Headquarters in Upper Marlboro, MD. More

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  • iMail , News September 22, 2011

    Communicators Class Enrollment Deadline is Sept. 30

    The enrollment deadline for the IAM Communications Department’s Communicator Course is Friday, September 30, 2011. The class, to be held December 4-9, 2011 at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Southern Maryland, is designed for new lodge Communicators, or Communicators who are not publishing websites or newsletters and need help in basic

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  • News September 22, 2011

    Senate panel rejects GOP bid to undercut NLRB

    WASHINGTON — Republicans on a Senate panel have failed in an effort to undercut the National Labor Relations Board’s case against Boeing Co. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham tried to take away the NLRB’s authority to tell a company where it can locate work. Read the entire article at Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/09/21/general-industrials-us-congress-spending_8693731.html

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