Quick links+
A 2011 photo of, left to right, then-IAM District 166 Organizer Javier Alamazan and auto technicians Dean Catalano, Juan Cazorla and David Poppo who were recently reinstated after being fired from Mercedes-Benz of Orlando because of their union involvement. The IAM has scored another important legal victory for workers who endured harassment, intimidation and firings
Read moreRoe Spencer The IAM is mourning the loss of former Southern Territory General Vice President Roe Spencer, who passed away on January 8, 2015. He was 88 years old. After being raised in a union household, Spencer joined the IAM during his first job at the City Service Oil Refinery. He became Secretary-Treasurer of IAM
Read moreThe GOP-controlled House of Representatives have their sights set on Social Security and disability benefits as their first order of business. Soon after this week’s convening of the 114th Congress, members approved a rule that would force both programs into insolvency. Since 1968, Congress has allowed the periodic reallocation of Social Security payroll tax income
Read moreThe IAM mourns the death of District W24 member Justin Simons, 31, who died in December 2014 after becoming trapped in a piece of machinery at a Weyerhaeuser sawmill facility in Cottage Grove, OR. Simons died at the scene after employees and first responders were unsuccessful in reviving him, a spokeswoman for the Oregon Occupational
Read more