The IAM is proud to announce that the 3rd annual IAM International President’s Capital Classic Golf Tournament will benefit the creation of a military veterans memorial on the grounds of the IAM’s William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, MD.
Fill out and return the registration and sponsorship form today [Online Form | Print Form]. The deadline to register and sponsor the tournament is Friday, March 24, 2023.
3rd annual IAM International President’s Capital Classic Golf Tournament
Monday, May 1, 2023 Oak Creek Golf Club, 600 Bowieville Manor Lane, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Entry fees are $150 per person or $600 per foursome and include green and cart fees, a continental breakfast and a post-round lunch, a trophy presentation, and raffle drawings. Registration and breakfast will begin at 7:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 9 a.m.
Ready for a day on the links to show our support for our military veterans? Fill out and return the registration and sponsorship form today [Online Form | Print Form].
Sponsorship Opportunities $5,000 Tournament Sponsor: Two foursomes, hole sponsorship, and logo on Tournament Sponsor banner at registration. $3,000 Hospitality Sponsor: One foursome, hole sponsorship, meal, driving range, putting green, prize, or other sponsorship. $1,000 Hole Sponsor: One foursome and hole sponsorship. $500 Hole Sponsor
If you have any questions about the tournament, please contact Terri Kenealy at tkenealy@iamaw.org or 301-967-4555.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) proudly represents 600,000 active and retired members across North America. Many of our members are military veterans who work in the defense, aerospace, and federal sectors, supporting the mission of our service members every day.
A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge ruled this week that a Missouri-based manufacturer, Motor Appliance Corporation (MAC) violated federal labor law when they committed unfair labor practices (ULP) by threatening employees engaged in union activity with job losses and pay freezes. MAC manufactures electric motors and chargers.
The dispute began in January 2022, when the IAM filed a petition with the NLRB seeking to represent full-time and part-time production and maintenance employees at MAC. Thereafter, MAC contracted with Sparta, a labor consulting company, “to provide a ‘systematic, organized counter-campaign to secure an election win,’” the Judge wrote.
In doing so the company conducted mandatory anti-union captive audience meetings where employees were threatened with unspecified consequences for voting for the Machinists, freezing wages, and even surveillance. MAC also fired three workers – union supporters for protected activities.
In his decision, the judge ruled that MAC and Sparta cease and desist from their unlawful conduct and that the Machinists be recognized as the exclusive representative of the bargaining unit, and upon request, bargain with the IAM. The ruling also calls for the terminated employees to be returned to work and made whole, including wages and benefits.
“The IAM is proud to stand with employees at Motor Appliance Corp., and any worker who is subject to mistreatment on the job due to their desire to form a union,” said IAM Midwest Territory General Vice President Steven Galloway. “We look forward to further representing Motor Appliance Corp. workers and bargaining a strong union contract – one that protects each worker’s dignity and rights. These findings should put all employers – who wish to violate their workers’ rights to form a union – on notice, and should empower all workers to push forward in their fight to bargain collectively for better rights on the job.”
The Maine Lobstering Union (IAM Local 207) and the IAM Political and Legislative Department have won a provision that delays instituting regulations that would have destroyed Maine’s lobster industry. With the assistance of the Maine Congressional Delegation, Congress passed an omnibus appropriations bill that includes this provision.
The IAM and its allies have long shown that lobstering practices in the Gulf of Maine are not harming right whales and that proposed regulations unfairly target the Maine lobstering industry.
“IAM Local 207 members and the entire Maine lobstering industry have shown again that when we stand together, we win critical victories for our state, community and livelihoods,” said IAM Eastern Territory General Vice President David Sullivan. “We’re so thankful for the IAM Political and Legislative Department—specifically Assistant Director Loren Almeroth and Local 207 Political Director Virginia Olson, for their diligence in this effort—the Maine congressional delegation and all of our allies in this fight.”
The provision protects the lobster industry by delaying NMFS’s newly recommended regulations for six years, until enough data is collected to determine what the appropriate regulations should be for the Gulf of Maine and if the existing regulations prove sufficient.
“Maine’s lobstermen and women have long demonstrated their commitment to maintaining and protecting a sustainable fishery in the Gulf of Maine,” said the Maine delegation. “They have invested in countless precautionary measures to protect right whales, including removing more than 30,000 miles of line from the water and switching to weaker rope to prevent whales from being entangled. And the fact is— there has never been a right whale death attributed to Maine lobster gear. We know the right whale population can be protected along with a thriving fishery because Maine lobstermen are already doing it.”
In October, IAM Local 207 called on the Biden Administration to protect Maine’s lobster fishery being threatened by the proposed regulations. The Maine delegation also sent letters to President Biden, urging him to take action to save thousands of jobs.
“It bears repeating that Maine’s lobster industry is an economic engine for the state, generating approximately $1.4 billion annually and supporting the livelihoods of 4,500 lobstermen and thousands of Mainers employed through lobster dealers and seafood processors, vessel and trap manufacturers, restaurants, and other coastal businesses,” reads U.S. Rep. Jared Golden’s letter to the president.
IAM International President Robert Martinez Jr. has appointed longtime IAM officer and staff member Robert D. Walls to serve as the IAM’s Woodworkers Director. The appointment is effective January 1, 2023.
Walls has served on the Woodworkers’ Department’s Grand Lodge staff since 2015 as a Special Representative and then as a Grand Lodge Representative.
“Brother Walls has a long history on the shop floor, at the negotiating table, and in halls of power around the world advocating for IAM wood, pulp, and paper members,” said Martinez. “We look forward to continuing to strengthen our power and grow our footprint in this critical sector.”
Walls, a member since the Woodworkers affiliated with the IAM in 1994, served as a shop steward and business representative for IAM Local W33 in his hometown of International Falls, MN. He was appointed District W3 Business Representative in February 2000 and became the district’s Assistant Directing Business Representative in 2009.
Walls serves on the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Resource Committee (SFI), the Forest Products Industry National Labor Management Committee, the Machinists Wood, Pulp & Paper Council, and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC.) In October 2022, at the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) Congress, Walls was elected Vice President of BWI’s North America Region.
