The IAM’s new live studio webcast Activate LIVE, the first live weekly social media program in the labor movement, will broadcast a special edition on Friday, September 29 with a live studio audience including IAM Young Machinists.
Read moreThe opioid crisis is a national emergency, roughly 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2016. This emergency has cost our nation nearly 80 billion per year, much of which is attributable to lost earnings and employment.
Read moreOne of the models we live by as union members is “service to the community.” This year IAM Local 289 stepped up to sponsor the 4-H swine division at the Pierce County Fair in Graham, WA.
Read moreOn September 22, nearly 100 workers at Precision Castparts in Portland, OR voted to join the IAM. The company makes heavy-duty metal components for airplanes, generators and other industrial products.
Read moreAs IAM members and other residents in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands begin their recovery from hurricanes Irma and Maria, they join tens of thousands still reeling from storms Harvey and Irma in Texas and Florida.
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