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John
Broenniman, who casts propellers, and other IAM Local 1947
members at Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin make
high-quality outboard engines |
LL 1529,
Sidney, New York
IAM members at Amphenol-Bendix make electrical, electronic and
fiber optic connectors, coaxial and flat-ribbon cable and
interconnect systems. They work in a state-of-the-art facility
filled with machines: metal cutting machines, hi-tech CNC
machining, die cast machines, molding, impact and extruding
machines, plating machines and screw machining.
For sixty
years, IAM members have been the assemblers, toolmakers and
craftsmen at the plant in Sidney, New York. And what do they do
that is of use to you?
Next time you
click on your TV think about the coaxial connector to the cable
television provider or satellite dish. It’s Machinist made.
When you watch
a Bradley fighting vehicle or a Blackhawk helicopter operate in
a war zone … the automatic doors on a subway car close … an
astronaut check the instruments in the International Space
Station … realize it is all because of special connection
devices made by Machinists.
LL 1005, Mt.
Hood, Oregon
IAM members at Freightliner are proud to be North America’s
leading commercial truck manufacturers. In their Portland and
Seattle plants, they make class eight trucks; Coronado, Western
Star, Century, Columbia and Kenworth are their brand names or
classes.
Some are made
for export to Australia. The military uses them to pull lowboy
trailers carrying construction equipment, bulldozers, other
trucks or hummers. Those with all-wheel drive get drafted for
combat convoy roles. Thousands of these Machinist-made behemoths
are high-end, owner-operator, highway trucks.
What’s so
absolutely indispensable about Machinists who manufacture
over-the-road tractors?
Try shopping in
an empty grocery store ... checking an empty mailbox … or,
better yet, try bringing imported goods to market without a
class eight truck.
Machinist-made
tractors rule the highways.
LL 1482
Franklin, Pennsylvania
With over half the electricity generated in the United States
produced by coal-fired power plants, Machinists who make
underground coal-mining equipment know how absolutely
indispensable they are.
At Joy Mining
Machinery, Machinists are making roof supports, longwall
shearers and shuttle cars. What they make makes mining a safer,
more productive industry.
Those roof
supports prevent cave-ins that could bury miners alive and the
longwall shearers chew tons of coal from seams found deep within
the earth – a backbreaking job men did with pick axes and
shovels for centuries.
And the
Machinist-made shuttle cars carry tons of coal to the surface
where it is loaded on coal gondolas for transport to those
generators.
And who ensures
that all that coal reaches those power plants? Machinists do.
