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Kaniewski, Wright to Take Southern Territory Positions

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IAM International President Bob Martinez has announced that Deirdre Kaniewski and Tim Wright will be taking positions in the Southern Territory. Kaniewski, a Communications Specialist and 11-year staff member at IAM Headquarters, will take over communications duties in the 14-state Southern Territory. Wright, a 29-year IAM member and Assistant Directing Business Representative at Tennessee District […]

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Gains in New Contract for District 751 Hytek Members

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IAM District 751 members at Hytek Finishes in Kent, WA voted 95-percent “yes” last week on a new three-year collective bargaining agreement, which includes across-the-board benefits. “This is a good contract that makes improvements in wages and other areas,” said District 751 President Jon Holden. “Our members at Hytek work hard, and this contract rewards them

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‘We Are Still In This’

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The IAM negotiating committee at Huntington-Ingalls shipyard in Norfolk, VA continues to fight for a first contract for its membership. Pictured from left are members Tony Poslik, Samuel L. Lovett and LaTasha Greene, District 74 Directing Business Representative Larry Young and Southern Territory Grand Lodge Representative Joe Greaser. “We emphatically believe we are worth what

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Machinists to Lobby Canadian Parliament to Protect Pensions

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With more than 50 participants, the Machinist delegation will be the largest contingent involved in a Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) lobbying effort to stop Bill C 27, which would amend a longstanding pension protection law. “Bill C-27 proposes to amend the Pensions Benefits Standards Act to allow federal employers to amend existing defined benefit pension

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Union Membership Equals Higher Wages, BLS Report Again Shows

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The most recent annual Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on union membership shows that median weekly earnings for full-time nonunion workers were only 80 percent of earnings for unionized workers. Click here to the BLS’s 2016 median weekly earnings chart. Although overall union membership is down, big business and its legislative allies cannot hide

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IAM, St. Louis Labor Joins District 9 Strike Rally at American Pulverizer

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Nearly a hundred Machinists, labor union brothers and sisters, and community supporters converged upon St. Louis, directly in front of anti-union manufacturer American Pulverizer headquarters, to stand in solidarity with IAM Local 41 and 313 members on strike there.                     IAM leadership – International President Bob Martinez,

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Round One Goes to Working People in Ohio Township RTW Fight

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Union members across southwest Ohio flooded the city hall in West Chester Township Tuesday evening to protest a proposal to institute a so-called “right-to-work” (for less) designation for the township. Fighting Machinists stood shoulder-to-shoulder with other local unions in victory as the trustees withdrew the proposal citing the legality of the issue. Two of the

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