Saturday, October 2, 2004
HELP!
Brothers & Sisters I would like you to e-mail me and tell me why you like belonging to the Machinist union and why you think others should too. Send a short statement along with your name, and department to info@ll774.org some of the statements will be posted on our web site.
posted at 5:45 PM
Quote of the Day
We must all hang together, or, most asuredly we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin franklin to John Hancock, July ,4 1776
posted at 5:41 PM
First Debate Demonstrates Kerry’s Strong Leadership
Oct. 1—Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) made clear in last night’s presidential debate he would be a strong president and commander in chief and provide the kind of leadership the nation needs to fight terrorism and restore strength and fairness to the economy, says Machinists Local Lodge 2063 President Dave Bevard, speaking after the debate. more on this story
posted at 5:32 PM
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004
Save our Pension's
Local Lodge 141, "the employees of United Airlines" are in a battle to keep there pension plan and in a fight for all of us to keep our pension's. Please go to there web site and find out what you can do to help them in this critical fight. LL141
posted at 7:35 PM
Quote of the Day
Our young people need to think of union careers as earnestly as they do of business careers and professions.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted at 4:08 PM
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004
Check out this new IAM site I found it's great: http://www.iamaw.org/publications/iam2004/
posted at 7:14 PM
Quote of the Day
"Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie—labor is fighting for a larger pie.”
Walter Reuther; President United Auto Workers, 1945
posted at 4:03 PM
Friday, Sept. 24, 2004
Our own Ron Eldridge and the Aerospace Department Staff
Aerospace Department staff, from left, Aerospace Coordinators Ron Eldridge, Frank Santos, Dick Schneider, John Crowdis and Secretary Karen Peek.
Aerospace
After a difficult round of aerospace negotiations in 1995 and 1996, which resulted in a 69-day strike at Boeing and a 104-day strike at McDonnell-Douglas, the question facing the IAM was, “What could be done to best represent our members in this industry?” more on this story
CNN’s Lou Dobbs received the 2004 George J. Kourpias Award for Excellence in Labor Journalism. “We would canonize him if we could,” said President Buffenbarger. Dobbs was presented with the IAM’s George J. Kourpias Award for Excellence in Labor Journalism and hailed for his contribution to the debate on jobs, outsourcing and harmful trade policies. “There is no finer recipient than Lou Dobbs for the Kourpias Award,” said President Buffenbarger. “Night after night he tells the story of our jobs being shipped overseas. If we could canonize him, we would.”
more on this story and the IAM Convention
posted at 10:45 PM
Quote of the Day With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
Clarence Darrow
posted at 10:35 PM
Hey everyone we found a new web site for union made products check it out and get your union made items today! shop union made
posted at 8:55 PM
Kerry Faults Bush for Pursuing Saddam PHILADELPHIA - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) faulted President Bush (news - web sites) on Friday for pursuing Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) instead of Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), a choice Kerry contended had made defeating terrorism more difficult. 
Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass, delivers a speech on 'Fighting The War On Terror' at Temple University in Philadelphia, Penn. Friday, Sept. 24, 2004 (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) more on this story
posted at 4:23 PM Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004
Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards got a hero's welcome from IP Tom Buffenberger and delegates to the IAM's 36 Grand Lodge Convention
Vice presidential candidate John Edwards got a hero’s welcome Monday evening at the Cincinnati Convention Center where he addressed more than 2,000 Machinists gathered for the 36 th IAM Grand Lodge Convention. More on the convention
posted at 5:25 AM
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004