The 2017 IAM Scholarship Competition is now accepting applications. The deadline for submissions is February 24, 2017. Click here to see the eligibility rules and download applications. The IAM awards scholarships to: Children of IAM members (parent or guardian) applying for college Children of IAM members (parent or guardian) applying for vocational or technical […]
Month: February 2017
IAM to Host Guide Dogs 5K at Winpisinger Center
Bring the family out to the IAM No Joke April Fools 5K Walk/Run for a morning of running, walking, food and fun, while bringing freedom and mobility to the visually impaired by raising money for Guide Dogs of America. The April 1, 2017 event will be a perimeter trail run held at the William W. […]
Union Membership Equals Higher Wages, BLS Report Again Shows
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 […]
Helping Hands February 2017
Be the Process: Come to the IAM Legislative Conference
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 […]