As the strike of 4,300 IAM Local S6 members at Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics subsidiary, enters a sixth week, U.S. Reps. Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree are asking the U.S. Navy to clarify its position on the expanded use of subcontracting at the shipyard. The work stoppage is the largest active strike in […]
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, the general membership meeting for the month of August has been cancelled. We will keep you posted on the status of the September meeting scheduled September 2, 2020. The August e-board meeting on 8/5/20 will be held remotely.
Pressure mounted on Bath Iron Works management at a rally Saturday as 4,300 IAM Local S6 shipbuilders are nearly six weeks into a strike to protect good Maine jobs from being outsourced. IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr. addressed hundreds of Local S6 members, saying that Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, “is […]
The Sunday, July 26 anniversary of the signing of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a good time to reflect on how to empower and support workers with differing abilities that we see and interact with every day, whether we realize it or not. The ADA is a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination based on disability in employment, […]
The IAM is asking for help from elected officials to save nearly 80 New York IAM Local 2495 (District 65) jobs at Jamestown Metal Products. Management at the Jamestown, NY plant announced that the factory would permanently close its doors by early September and move work to Tennessee. The company has cited supply chain issues […]
Some content of this article is from CBSNews8. Teams of military and civilian firefighters labored for a fourth day today to subdue a stubborn blaze that has raged aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego since last weekend. Though the fire — so widespread and hot that, for a time, was too […]
On Wednesday, July 8, Local Lodge 389 hosted our first ever virtual town hall. Due to the ongoing Coronavirus crisis we were unable to hold the town hall at the Kearny Mesa Hall so the decision was made to conduct the meeting on line. IAM Western Territory Chief of Staff Bobby Martinez and District Lodge […]
As the IAM’s campaign for a fair contract for more than 4,300 Local S6 shipbuilders in Maine continues, Bath Iron Works has decided to attempt to break the strike by calling in temporary workers. Local S6 members, who have the support of more than 600,000 IAM members across North America, will not be deterred, said […]
WASHINGTON, July 1, 2020 – Robert Martinez Jr., International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), issued the following statement regarding the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) going into effect today: “USMCA won’t stop the hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and service jobs that are being offshored from the U.S. Contrary to this […]