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  • iMail , News June 9, 2015

    GST Roach Assigns New Responsibilities for Roeper, Shemanski

    Maria Roeper Paul Shemanski IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., has appointed Maria Roeper to be IAM Director of Human Resources, effective July 1, 2015. In addition to her human resources responsibilities, Roeper will continue to serve as counsel of the recently-formed IAM Health and Welfare Programs Department. Roeper served as IAM Assistant General Counsel

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  • iMail , News June 9, 2015

    Union Transportation Available at Industrial Conference

    Delegates attending the IAM 2015 Industrial Conference in Chicago can help support our TCU/IAM Brothers and Sisters at Airport Express Shuttle for transportation from either Midway or O’Hare Airports to the Chicago Hilton. Airport Express is offering IAM members a 20 percent discount for travel from either airport to the Chicago Hilton. Online booking is

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  • iMail , News June 4, 2015

    Cadence-Giddens Aerospace Workers Vote to Join IAM

    Hourly workers at Cadence Aerospace-Giddens in Everett, WA voted by a 3-to-2 margin to join IAM District 751. Hourly workers at Cadence Aerospace-Giddens in Everett, WA are now part of IAM District 751. The National Labor Relations Board certified the results of the union election at the company, which had been held May 14-15. Hourly

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  • iMail , News June 4, 2015

    Why Fast Track for TPP is Bad for IAM Members and How You Can Stop It

    IAM members joined labor and community activists to protest Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership outside the Greenbelt, MD office of House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD). Ways and Means Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) is pushing to bring Fast Track legislation for the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to a vote in the House. It’s up

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  • iMail , News June 4, 2015

    My Conversation with IP Tom Buffenbarger: How Tom Became a Union Leader and How You Can Too

    Dan Janssen, an Air Canada baggage handler and vice president of IAM Local 2323 in Toronto, sat down with IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger for a frank discussion on the importance of young workers’ involvement in the labor movement. Dan Janssen, a 34-year-old Young Machinist and vice president of IAM Local 2323 in Toronto, recently

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