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  • iMail , News March 22, 2016

    IAM Flight Attendants, Customer Service Agents Continue Capitol Hill Fights

    IAM Flight Attendants hit Capitol Hill demanding a mandatory 10 hour rest period be added to the FAA Reauthorization bill. IAM Flight Attendants from across the country joined hundreds of other cabin crew members from multiple unions on Capitol Hill for a “Rally for Rest” which visited all 541 Congressional offices last week in an

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  • Latest Videos , News March 22, 2016

    The Women of the IAMAW

    Women were first admitted to the Machinists Union with equal rights in 1911. The IAMAW’s Secretary-Treasurer and one of its General Vice Presidents are women, but women are still in the minority when it comes to membership in the Machinists Union. The women in this video explain why women’s voices must be heard. The song

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  • Latest Videos , News March 21, 2016

    Exposing the TPP’s tyranny.

    U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a powerful Democrat from Hawaii, is part of a growing pro-labor coalition in Washington that’s fighting against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as the TPP.

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  • News March 21, 2016

    Machinists Union Concerned About Sanders’s Continued Push to Close Export-Import Bank

    Washington, D.C., March 21, 2016 – Following Sen. Bernie Sanders’s trip to Washington state, IAM International President Bob Martinez issued the following statement in response to Sanders’s comments on the Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank: “The IAM continues to be concerned about Sen. Sanders’s push to end the Ex-Im Bank. The bank means jobs for our members,

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  • iMail , News March 17, 2016

    Clinton Sweeps ‘Super Tuesday Sequel’

    IAM-endorsed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came away with a clean sweep of all five Democratic primaries held Tuesday, March 15. Victories in Missouri, Illinois, Florida, Ohio and North Carolina put Clinton even further on her path toward the Democratic nomination. “Good paying jobs are the ticket to the middle class and we’re going to stand

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