Celebrating Solidarity at Boston Local 264
After a two-year fight to prevent their jobs from being privatized at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, IAM Local Lodge 264 members gathered to celebrate their success. They were joined by IAM...
View ArticleGive for Guide Dogs Today
Today is Giving Tuesday and Guide Dogs of America invites you to be a part of the movement. Please participate in this campaign dedicated to charitable giving — when charities, families, businesses,...
View ArticleJoin the Machinists at Wreaths Across America Day
Each December on National Wreaths Across America Day, coordinated wreath-laying ceremonies take place at more than 1,400 locations, in all 50 states, at sea and abroad. The annual event serves to...
View ArticleWin $500 by Designing the 2019 IAM Women’s Conference T-Shirt
“Women Rising: Unite the Fight” is the theme of the 2019 IAM Women’s Conference, and your T-Shirt design could be the winning entry to promote the event. Judges will award prizes of $500, $300 and $200...
View ArticleConnecticut Machinists Help Families in Need for Thanksgiving
For 28 years IAM Local 1871 in Groton, CT, has provided Thanksgiving baskets for out-of-work members, needy families and others in the community.The idea, which grew out of a garage food pantry that...
View ArticleMachinists Union Mourns Loss of Linda Buffenbarger
The Machinists Union is mourning the loss of Linda Buffenbarger, beloved wife of retired International President Tom Buffenbarger and mother of Special Assistant Andrew Buffenbarger and Amy...
View ArticleBloomberg Law – GM Decision to Close Plants is ‘Slap in the Face,’ UAW Says
The union representing workers at General Motors Co.’s U.S. facilities will stand in the way of the company’s decision to stop production at some plants in any way it can, according to a Nov. 26...
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IP Martinez Delivers Message of Solidarity at District Lodge W2 Council Meeting
International President Bob Martinez and District W2 DBR and W2 Council President Kelvin Godwin District Lodge W2 held their Council Meeting in Tunica, MS on October 26th, preceded by a W2 Executive...
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Wrench & Wood November 2018
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View ArticleThey Privatize; We Organize – Boston IAM Local 264
After successfully overcoming attempts to privatize bus mechanics at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), Boston IAM Local Lodge 264 was able to organize and negotiate a collective...
View ArticlePeople Addicted To Opioids Are Finding Cheap Fixes in Mexico
The US is Sending Its Addiction Problem Over the Border. It’s 6:20 in the evening when Dr. Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga pulls her battered brown van to a stop. It’s the first time she’s set up her mobile...
View ArticleJudge Allows Class-Action Lawsuit by Mentally Ill Veterans Denied VA Health...
Thousands of Navy and Marine Corps veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed post-traumatic stress disorder but were denied Veterans Affairs health benefits have been given a green light to sue...
View ArticleMeditation helps conflict veterans with PTSD: study
Transcendental meditation — the practice of effortless thinking — may be as effective at treating PTSD in conflict veterans as traditional therapy, US researchers said Friday, in findings that could...
View ArticleWinter Blues?
As we move toward the end of the Fall months, the days getting shorter and the temperature starting to fall, you might be frustrated as you find yourself working hard to resist surrendering to a...
View ArticleCenter on Addiction
Center on Addiction is a science-based, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1992 by former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Our purpose is to find,...
View ArticleNewswriting for Communicators Class Moved to July
To better serve the class participants, the 2019 Newswriting for Communicators course has been rescheduled. The class was originally scheduled for January, instead will be held July 21-26, 2019. We...
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Feeding the Community in Virginia
They didn’t do it for the fanfare. In fact, it wasn’t until weeks later that anyone started hearing what the members of IAM Local Lodge10 in Newport News, VA had done one brisk, fall Saturday in...
View ArticleRetired Connecticut IAM Member to Serve on Incoming Governor’s Transition Team
IAM Retiree John Harrity will be serving on the Energy Committee for Connecticut Governor-elect Ned Lamont’s Transition Team. Lamont was endorsed by the Connecticut State Council of Machinists (CSCM),...
View ArticleFederal Workers Speak: Walter Pleasants
As anti-worker politicians in Washington, DC wage war against unionized federal workers, NFFE-IAM members are fighting back by sharing their stories about labor’s pride, power and American patriotism....
View ArticleFederal Workers Speak: Reggie Tolbert
As anti-worker politicians in Washington, DC wage war against unionized federal workers, NFFE-IAM members are fighting back by sharing their stories about labor’s pride, power and American patriotism....
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