IAM Local Lodge 1731

IAM International President Bob Martinez wrote an op-ed in Monday’s Seattle Times addressing Boeing’s continued job cuts amidst soaring stock prices. Boeing executives are gushing over the company’s stock, up a whopping 58 percent over the last 12 months. Washington state’s homegrown aerospace giant left the Paris Air Show with 571 orders worth $75 billion. […]

Nabisco’s parent company, Mondelez International, has abandoned the workers at its plant on Chicago’s south side, by investing in Mexico and laying off 600 people, all in the name of profit. A new video produced by Front Page with James Earl Jones explains the impact Nabisco’s greed has here at home. Watch the Front Page […]

The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday approved customer service assault language into their Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Bill. This language will help protect Customer Service Agents (CSAs) against physical abuse. The IAM applauds both the House and Senate for including this language, along with the 10-hour rest rule for flight attendants, into their bills. But, unlike […]

Aerospace June 20, 2017                 IAM leadership from the U.S. and Canada are meeting with union representatives from 10 other countries—Japan, the UK, Italy, India, Sweden, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium and Morocco—to build union power in the growing global aerospace industry. “We must take international solidarity to a […]

iMail May 30, 2017 “Machinists Union members have been proudly manufacturing C-130 aircraft since production began in the 1950s, said Martinez. As our nation’s longest running military production aircraft line, the C-130 program has established an extraordinary record of dependable performance. The program currently employs 570 suppliers across forty-one states. The Multi-Year Procurement (MYP-III) would […]