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More than 900 district and local lodge presidents and organizing chairpersons from the U.S. and Canada descended on Chicago October 3rd to take part in a three-day organizing summit. Designed to create battle plans for hundreds of organizing campaigns, the summit will use a computer hookup to allow delegates to simultaneously examine opportunities and obstacles
Read moreOctober 26, 2005 – U.S. Secretary Treasurer John Snow has said legislation seeking new tariff’s on China’s goods is not the way to get the Communist government to strengthen their currency, continuing the Bush administration’s soft stance on China’s unfair trade practices. However, Chinese officials have repeatedly said they have no intentions of strengthening their
Read moreA group of 31 mine workers employed by Feldspar Corporation in Edgar, FL, the state’s oldest continually operated mine, voted recently to join the IAM. “The biggest issue was respect and a voice on the job,” said District 112 Directing Business Representative Steve Hernandez. “Wages and benefits are very important, but people want fair treatment.”
Read moreDistrict Lodge 15 brought 73 new members into Local Lodge 447 recently by organizing the employees at World Yacht located in New York, New York. This is the 27th organizing win for the Eastern Territory this year. Please join me in welcoming these new members into the IAM family. On behalf of the Eastern Territory
Read moreDespite suffering massive losses from Hurricane Katrina, seventy-five electricians from three IBEW local lodges in Louisiana were kicked off a three-week old recovery job and replaced with out-of-state non-union electricians as a result of President Bush’s executive order suspending the Davis-Bacon Act in the Gulf Coast. By suspending the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires employers to
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