2025 IAM Scholarship Winners
The IAM is pleased to announce the 2025 Scholarship winners. An impartial committee of educators selected 16 recipients for this year’s awards. We congratulate the winners and thank all those who participated in the competition.
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UAW Members Strike at Lockheed Martin, as Company Announces $1.7 Billion in First Quarter Profits
After months of negotiations, over 900 UAW members in Orlando, FL (Local 788) and Denver, CO (Local 766) have walked out on strike at Lockheed Martin, after the company committed multiple unfair labor practices and refused to present a fair economic proposal that meets the membership’s needs.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Wichita Symphony Orchestra Musicians Agree on New Contract
Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Wichita Symphony Orchestra Musicians Agree on New Contract
Working people across the United States regularly step up to help out our friends, neighbors and communities during these trying times. In our Service & Solidarity Spotlight series, we’ll showcase one of these stories every day. Here’s today’s story.
A total of 45 members of the Wichita Musicians’ Association, Local 297 of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), voted unanimously to approve a new contract, which will run through June 2028. In total, the contract covers some 80 orchestra musicians.The contract stipulates structured wage increases over three years, improved rehearsal pay policies, musician protections and refined language around artistic evaluations, a change in the hourly pay to a flat service rate for all musicians participating in rehearsals, among other improvements.“We are incredibly pleased with this outcome, which will further enhance our orchestra’s artistic quality and provide important stability for the years ahead,” the orchestra’s executive director, Tim Storhoff, said.
Kenneth Quinnell
Thu, 05/01/2025 – 10:01
Federal Workers Celebrated at Huge IAM Union Rally Featuring Senator Chris Van Hollen and Representatives Hoyer, Raskin, Kamlager-Dove and Ivey
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2025 – Hundreds gathered outside Union Station on Tuesday, April 29, to honor and thank federal employees at an energizing celebration hosted by the IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) and the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM). FEDERAL RALLY PHOTOS The event, held during the IAM Union Legislative Conference
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Tina Tauese Appointed International Auditor
IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Dora Cervantes has appointed longtime Local 2202 leader Tinae Tauese as an International Auditor, effective June 1, 2025. Tauese will help ensure the financial stewardship of IAM locals and districts in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Northern California. Currently employed by Alaska Airlines, Tauese serves as a Resource Planning Lead Customer Service Agent
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Tinae Tauese Appointed International Auditor
IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Dora Cervantes has appointed longtime Local 2202 leader Tinae Tauese as an International Auditor, effective June 1, 2025. Tauese will help ensure the financial stewardship of IAM locals and districts in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Northern California. Currently employed by Alaska Airlines, Tauese serves as a Resource Planning Lead Customer Service Agent
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TCU/IAM Members Attend New York State Council in Niagara Falls
Members of the Transportation Communications Union (TCU/IAM) recently joined other IAM Union members and elected officials from across the state at the New York State Council of Machinists (NYSCOM) annual meeting, held this year in Niagara Falls. The meeting allowed TCU/IAM members to learn new strategies for advocating for the rights of working people in
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IAM Union Members Gather in Niagara Falls for Annual NYSCOM Meeting
IAM Union International President Brian Bryant, IAM Union Air Transport Territory General Vice President Richie Johnsen, IAM Union Eastern Territory General Vice President David Sullivan recently joined other IAM Union members and elected officials from across New York State in Niagara Falls for the annual meeting of the New York State Council of Machinists (NYSCOM), an
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100 Days of Speaking Truth to Power
100 Days of Speaking Truth to Power
In the past 100 days, President Trump, Elon Musk and their unaccountable DOGE have fired or targeted for firing at least 121,000 federal workers. They’ve been ripping up union contracts, cutting critical services we rely on and dismantling the fundamental freedom to organize for a better life.We were ready for Project 2025—but this governing agenda is Project 2025 on steroids. Everything from Medicaid and Social Security, the U.S. Postal Service and Department of Veterans Affairs programs, and cancer research and food inspections have been on the chopping block over the past few months to pay for even bigger tax cuts for billionaires and giant corporations. And in the meantime, costs for working families just keep going up and up.In short: This is the most anti-union, anti-worker barrage of attacks we’ve ever seen come from the White House.But you know what’s giving us hope right now? You. The power and solidarity of our 63 unions, our 15 million union members, and working people all across this country—standing up and speaking out for ourselves, our families, and our communities.The labor movement is leading the fight against this administration’s illegal actions and defending the jobs and services that people depend on. In the past 100 days, we’ve launched our own Department of People Who Work for a Living rapid response program to hold the DOGE accountable—and Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network to get workers the legal support they need to fight back.We have tens of thousands of people showing up to rallies, and protests, and town halls—working folks who are ready to do something. We have entire communities coming out to protect their immigrant neighbors. We have brave lawyers taking the fight to this administration and winning in court, so that thousands of Americans can return to their jobs.And we have people continuing to organize together and form unions in places we never have before, like the Deep South. Workers are saying: If the government isn’t going to fight for me, or raise my wages to a livable wage, I’ll stand with my co-workers and do it myself.The labor movement is under attack like never before, but we’ve never been more united—and the people united will never be defeated. Please watch and share: View this post on Instagram A post shared by AFL-CIO (@aflcio)
If you’re looking for things to do right now on this 100 days marker, here are a few other ways you can get involved: Call Congress to restore federal bargaining rights now. Call your member of Congress and tell them to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act and to reverse the Trump administration’s executive order stripping the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies. We are asking every single American who cares about the fundamental freedom of all workers to join a union to call their member of Congress right now at 844-896-5059.Find an event near you. Our union, state labor federation and local labor leaders are holding events all across the country every week to educate, organize, and mobilize working people. Keep checking in on our map to find an event near you.Join the Department of People Who Work for a Living, our own pseudo-government agency to expose the billionaire takeover. Share our content on social media and take action to stand up to the DOGE.Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network is uniting over a thousand lawyers to ensure working people get the support they deserve. Tell your friends by sending them to workerslegaldefense.org and donate to help support fired federal workers.Tell Congress to stop the cuts to NIOSH. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health researches worker exposures to heat and wildfire smoke, workplace violence, back injuries and other chronic diseases, and state-of-the-art technologies that keep workers safe in mines. Public pressure on Congress has already helped reinstate some NIOSH employees, at least temporarily. Tell Congress to keep workers safe and stop the cuts. Thank you for standing with working people these 100 days and every day. We are grateful to be in this fight with you.
Audrey Edmonds
Wed, 04/30/2025 – 13:13
Teamsters Local 469 Wins Big in Cannabis
(HAZLET, N.J.) – Teamsters Local 469 has ratified its first collective bargaining agreement in the cannabis industry and organized another dispensary in less than one month. “This is a core industry for our union and a major priority for us,” said Michael Broderick, Local 469 President. ‘We look forward to organizing even more cannabis facilities […]
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