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  • iMail , News June 30, 2015

    IAM Members in Pennsylvania Win $1.6 Million Settlement

    IAM members employed by URS Federal Support Services at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in northeastern Pennsylvania won a landmark settlement thanks to grievances and subsequent arbitrations filed on their behalf by IAM District 1 Representatives. As a result of layoffs in 2012, senior Electronic Technicians at Tobyhanna were laid off while the company retained junior

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  • iMail , News June 30, 2015

    Marine Base Contractors in North Carolina Vote IAM Yes

    IAM Organizing Committee for EMI Services in NC One hundred thirty three workers for EMI Services, LLC at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River in Jacksonville, NC voted IAM Yes for union representation. The Service Contract workers include all full-time and regular part-time maintenance and support employees. Laborers, warehouse

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  • iMail , News June 30, 2015

    Alabama Local 44 Member Mentors Rocket Team to Victory

    Team America from Russellville, AL (Photo by Russellville City Schools Rockets and Robots) Seven students from Russellville, AL, with the help of IAM Local 44 member Preston Burns, won world final competition of the Rocketry Challenge at the Paris Air Show. Burns served as their technical mentor and traveled with the team throughout all of

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  • iMail , News June 30, 2015

    Pinette Appointed Grand Lodge Auditor

    IAM General Vice President Dora Cervantes has appointed IAM Local 837A Secretary-Treasurer Bryan Pinette to serve as a Grand Lodge Auditor. Pinette will service lodges in southern Missouri, Arkansas and Montana. “Bryan brings a fresh perspective and an innovative point of view to the General Secretary-Treasurer’s Department,” said Cervantes. “We welcome him on board and

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  • iMail , News June 25, 2015

    Partnership Program Offers Labor Studies Degrees

    IAM Grand Lodge Representative Edison Fraser, right, recently received his bachelor’s degree in labor studies from the National Labor College at a ceremony at Columbia University in New York. IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., left, was on hand to congratulate Fraser. When IAM Grand Lodge Representative Edison Fraser received his bachelor’s degree in labor

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