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Michael J. Day
Directing Business Representative
District Lodge 190, IAM&AW
Michael J. Day became a member of East Bay Automotive
Machinists Local Lodge 1546 in Oakland, California in 1964. He began steadily
working up through the ranks of District Lodge 190 and in 1974, he was
elected Business representative. In February 1989, he became the District's
Directing Business representative.
Day amassed a distinguished history of involvement in the labor movement
and in the pursuit of better wages and working conditions for the men and
women of the IAM.
His achivements include the vice presidency of the California State Federation
of Labor, AFL-CIO (a post he had still held); membership on the IAM's Law
Committee (he was reelected this year), past-presidency and current Executive
Board membership on the California Conference of Machinists; chairmanship
of the Automotive Industries Pension Fund; chairmanship of the Automotive
Industries Health & Welfare Trust Fund; presidency of East Bay Automotive
Council; presidency of the Northern California Automotive Coordinating
Committee; chairmanship for the Union on the Western States Truck-Line
negotiating Committee for the Western Territory.
Instrumental in organizing District Lodge 190's Annual
Golf Tournament benefitting Guide Dogs of America, Day served on the GDA's
Board of Directors.
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