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  • iMail , News January 19, 2010

    GSA Group Gets Ready for Negotiations

    The NFFE-IAM GSA Negotiating Team prepared for upcoming negotiations: Front row, from left, NFFE-IAM FD1 National Secretary-Treasurer Bill Fenaughty, Yolanda Gonzalez, Linda Aase, Sherry Grayson and Richard Warren. Back row, from left: Bill English, Jack Hanley, Charles Paidock, Kevin Metcalf and Michael Ward. The popular Negotiation Preparation for Bargaining Committees class at the IAM’s William

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  • iMail , News January 19, 2010

    Donate to Help Relief Efforts in Haiti

    Working people and unions from around the world are responding in a big way to the earthquake disaster in Haiti. The devastation caused by the quake has killed tens of thousands of Haitians and created an incredible need for relief supplies. IAM members who want to help can donate to several charities that are being

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  • iMail , News January 19, 2010

    Basic Newsletter Course Rescheduled for May 2-7

    The 2010 Basic Newsletter Development course at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Placid Harbor, MD originally scheduled for April 25-29 has been rescheduled for May 2-7, 2010. Local or district lodges who want to start a newsletter or train editors for existing newsletters are encouraged to apply. The course covers writing

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  • News January 15, 2010

    Unions Are Good for Workers and the Economy in Every State

    Unions paved the way to the middle class for millions of workers and pioneered benefits along the way, including paid health care and pensions. Even today, union workers earn significantly more on average than their non-union counterparts, are nearly 54 percent more likely to have employer-provided pensions, and are 28 percent more likely to be

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