WICHITA, Kan., June 16, 2023 – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has reached a tentative four-year labor agreement with Spirit AeroSystems. The approximately 6,000 IAM Local 839 (District 70) members at the facility produce 70% of Boeing’s narrow-body aircraft and defense and business jet structures.
Read moreCommittee on Future Hears from Pacific Northwest Membership: The Committee on the Future (COTF) held four listening sessions in Washington State, making stops in Everett, Auburn, and Renton. IAM members from as far as Hawaii joined the conversation, offering ideas of how to strengthen our union, including ways to engage better and communicate with the
Read moreNegotiating committee members from IAM Local 2171 recently completed a Negotiation Preparation Field Program in Johnstown, PA. The committee is scheduled to enter contract talks with Lockheed Martin in July. District 98 Business Representative Mike Wentzel and Winpisinger Education and Technology Center Instructor Jon Irvine led the four-day training that gave the bargaining committee the
Read morePALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 25, 2023 – The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), North America’s largest aerospace and defense labor union, has reached tentative agreements with the Lockheed Martin Co. covering nearly 4,000 workers at several of the company’s Aeronautics, Space, and Advanced Development Programs, or “Skunk Works,” sites across the country.
Read moreNegotiating committee members from IAM Local 933 recently completed a Negotiation Prep training at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, MD, to prepare for upcoming contract negotiations with Raytheon.
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