After an eight month battle, more than 600 workers at K&N Engineering in Riverside, CA received word last week that the National Labor Relations Board certified the IAM as their exclusive collective bargaining representative. The new members of IAM District 725 originally voted in favor of the IAM in May of 2016, but the company […]
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IAM Local 2525 Bargaining Committee members, left to right, Jamie Allard, IAM District 5 Directing Business Representative Dennis Mendenhall, Maynard Hall and Jaiden Creary negotiated a new three-year contract for IAM members at Rugby Manufacturing in Rugby, ND. Members of IAM Local 2525 have ratified a new agreement with Rugby Manufacturing in Rugby, ND.
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If you are a District or Local Lodge Communicator, or a member who would like to improve the way our union connects with each other and the public, the IAM Communications Conference is the place for you. Join the Communications Department May 21-24, 2017 in Austin, TX for a fresh take on the best ways
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Join hundreds of IAM members May 8-10, 2017 in Washington, DC to lobby for policies that actually benefit the workers in our country and not the corporations. As part of the 2017 IAM Legislative Conference, Fighting Machinists from across the United States will be hitting Capitol Hill to remind their elected representatives of who they
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The next four years promises to be a challenging time for the labor movement and workers in general. Now is the time to stand strong and send the message of diversity and inclusion to our nation’s leaders, communities, and within our own union, and the key to that message is education. The time to enroll
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Los próximos cuatro años serán un gran desafío para el movimiento obrero y para los trabajadores en general. Hoy es el momento de mantenerse fuertes y enviar el mensaje de la diversidad y la inclusión a los líderes de nuestra nación, las comunidades y dentro de nuestra propia unión, y la clave de ese mensaje
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The IAM and the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM), along with a coalition of federal employee unions, have won an important clarification after the president’s across-the-board federal hiring freeze. Workers who were offered a job on or before January 22 and are scheduled to begin work on or before February 22 will still be
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President Trump formally withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and announced plans to renegotiate NAFTA, two trade deals with dire consequences for working people. What his administration does next is the real question. The IAM, and a strong coalition of labor and other groups that successfully blocked the TPP last year, have laid
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Boeing workers who build the 787 Dreamliner in North Charleston, SC will have the chance to vote to join the IAM. The IAM filed a petition on January 20, with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold a secret-ballot union election for approximately 2,850 production employees at the Boeing Co. in North Charleston, S.C.
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In a show of solidarity, IAM members joined millions of others across the U.S. and Canada to march in Saturday’s historic Women’s March. Watch: Women’s March on Washington “I’m here because it’s the right thing to do. I’m a stand up, speak out kind of woman. I’m not just gonna sit here.” – IAM General
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