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  • iMail , News January 27, 2015

    Reminder: New Contact Info for IAM Employee Assistance Program

    IAM members needing the confidential services of the IAM Employee Assistance Program (EAP) can contact an EAP facilitator directly at 1-800-788-9044, by email at iameap@iamaw.org, or by calling the Retiree, Community and Membership Services Department at 301-967-3433. EAP services are available for those needing assistance due to debilitating modern day stressors, which include all forms

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  • iMail , News January 22, 2015

    Lodge President Steps Down After Record 40 Years

    When the gavel comes down to open the January 2015 meeting of Rolls Royce office employees IAM Local Lodge 2468, it will mark the end of an era. For the first time in 40 years, Lee Cappadocia will not be chairing the meeting as president. His last official day in office was January 20, 2015.

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  • iMail , News January 22, 2015

    ‘Middle Class Economics’ Take Center Stage in Obama’s State of the Union

    President Obama proposed a “middle class economics” agenda in his State of the Union speech which included child care tax credits, paid sick leave, a raise in the minimum wage and free community college. President Obama on Tuesday night delivered a State of the Union address full of advocacy for working families, including fighting inequality,

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  • iMail , News January 22, 2015

    IAM Members Reflect, Give Back on MLK Day

    IAM Western Territory Grand Lodge Representative Steve Cooper gives a speech on mass employment vs. mass incarceration at the 2015 AFL-CIO Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil and Human Rights Conference in Atlanta. IAM Western Territory Grand Lodge Representative Steve Cooper gives a speech on mass employment vs. mass incarceration at the 2015 AFL-CIO Martin Luther

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  • iMail , News January 22, 2015

    SC Gov. Haley Attacks Workers in State Address

    Anti-union South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley used a significant portion of her annual State of the State address Wednesday night to attack workers trying to organize with the IAM at Boeing’s North Charleston, SC plant. Haley, as she has numerous times as governor, showed no respect for the federally-protected rights of workers in her

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