Special Assistant Mike Winpisinger administers the Bylaws and Internal Disputes Department and coordinates the IAM’s Union Plus program.

Membership

The effects of the stock market bubble bursting, a recession, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, put IAM membership into a tailspin. The four-year period from October 1999 ro October 2003 saw one of the steepest declines in the IAM's history. Core sectors, aerospace and air transportation, fell by nearly a third over the four-year period.

Table I shows IAM dues paying membership change by industry over the four-year period. Table II shows the relative importance of industry sectors as a percentage of dues-paying membership as of October 2003. Table III show dues-paying membership by territory.

(Note that "Headquarters" in Table III includes Woodworkers and Federal District 1 in its count.)