Oct 6, 2025 | Politics & Legislative News
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 1, 2025 – IAM Union Western Territory General Vice President Robert “Bobby” Martinez issued the following statement congratulating Adelita Grijalva, who was endorsed by the IAM Union’s Arizona State Council, on her victory in the general election for Arizona’s 7th Congressional District while also calling for her to be seated immediately in Congress:
“On behalf of the IAM Union and our Arizona State Council’s leadership and delegates, I congratulate Adelita Grijalva on her historic and hard-fought victory in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District.
“Adelita has dedicated her life to public service and advocacy, standing shoulder to shoulder with working families in Southern Arizona. As a proud native of our community, she has earned the trust of her neighbors through decades of leadership as a local elected official, an education champion, and a tireless defender of working people.
“It is unacceptable that the people of Arizona’s 7th Congressional District remain without representation in the U.S. House of Representatives. The voters have duly elected Adelita Grijalva, and the IAM Union joins working families across Arizona in calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to immediately seat her so she can get to work on behalf of her constituents.
“Her unwavering support for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, along with her commitment to protecting Social Security and Medicare, expanding access to affordable housing and healthcare, and holding corporations and billionaires accountable, are exactly the priorities Southern Arizona families voted for.
“Adelita is ready to lead with compassion, clarity, and purpose. IAM Union members are proud to stand with her as she begins the work of building a stronger future for all families.”
The IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) represents approximately 600,000 active and retired members in aerospace, defense, airlines, shipbuilding, rail, transit, healthcare, automotive, and other industries across North America.
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Oct 3, 2025 | Politics & Legislative News
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3, 2025— The IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) applauded Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) for pressing Boeing’s chief labor counsel, Scott Mayer, over the company’s refusal to reach a fair deal with 3,200 IAM District 837 members in St. Louis on their ninth week on strike.
Watch the exchange between Hawley and Maher here.
“With 3,000 plus residents of my state on strike, unable to work, unable to get healthcare while your CEO is getting paid 30-some million dollars,” said Hawley. “Fairness may be elusive, but that doesn’t look like fairness to me.”
This is not the first time Sen. Hawley has made public comments in support of IAM Union District 837 members on strike. In early September, Hawley was quoted in Missourinet about Boeing’s need to do the right thing by IAM members on strike.
“Management here needs to suck it up and get this thing over with,” said Hawley. “That company is so important to our state, the jobs that it provides, the great things that it produces.”
Boeing’s Defense, Space & Security unit reported $6.6 billion in second-quarter revenue for fiscal 2025, a 10% increase year over year. Yet the company continues to offer proposals that IAM Union District 837 members have repeatedly rejected, as they fail to meet even the most basic thresholds of fairness and dignity.
Negotiations between IAM Union District 837 and Boeing are ongoing under the supervision of a federal mediator.
“We’re tired of Boeing hiding behind posturing and PR spin,” said IAM Union International President Brian Bryant. “Our members build the jets and defense systems that keep this nation safe, and they deserve a deal that reflects their sacrifice, expertise and value. Boeing’s repeated lowball proposals are a slap in the face to the men and women who power their bottom line. The time for grandstanding is over. Negotiate in good faith now, Boeing.”
The IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) represents approximately 600,000 active and retired members across North America in aerospace, defense, airlines, shipbuilding, rail, transit, healthcare, automotive, and other industries.
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Sep 30, 2025 | Politics & Legislative News
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2025 – Brian Bryant, International President of the 600,000-member IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers), released the following statement on the possibility of a government shutdown:
“The IAM Union strongly urges Congress to fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown, which would affect tens of thousands of IAM federal employees and federal contract workers, as well as countless others across our nation.
“The IAM strongly urges a bipartisan funding solution, which should be negotiated in good faith to reach a solution between both Democrats and Republicans to offer a temporary funding measure and avoid a shutdown.
“The IAM also strongly condemns the White House’s threat to use a shutdown as a means to justify illegally firing scores of federal workers. Threats of such an action are unjust and cruel to civil servants, many of whom are Veterans who have already sacrificed and given so much to our great nation.
“Federal workers should not be treated as political pawns in such a fight. These civil servants are so crucial for our nation, from our food inspectors, to social security, air traffic controllers and TSA agents, and even to the military personnel we depend on every day to keep our nation moving forward.
“IAM Union is a diverse labor union representing thousands of federal workers, including those represented by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM), an affiliate representing approximately 110,000 federal workers across the U.S.
“Government shutdowns are even more destructive for our private sector federal contract worker membership, who work alongside federal employees and perform equally essential work for our nation and often do not get any backpay at all after a shutdown ends.
“The IAM strongly encourages both Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together on a funding measure that places the American people first and does not include any layoffs of federal workers.”
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Sep 16, 2025 | Politics & Legislative News
Help us restore collective bargaining for federal workers by sending a letter to your congressional representatives NOW asking them to support the Protect America’s Workforce Act!
President Donald Trump’s illegal March 27 executive order (EO) ended collective bargaining for federal unions, an attack on civil servants and their rights as workers.
IAM International President Brian Bryant sent this letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives and this letter to members of the Senate, urging their support for the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550), a bipartisan piece of legislation aimed at restoring collective bargaining rights of federal workers.
This bill has already been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Jared Golden (D-ME) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and has strong bipartisan support.
IAM Union strongly supports the Protect America’s Workforce Act for restoring collective bargaining rights to the nation’s federal workforce.
Federal workers are essential, and they’re committed to serving the American people. These workers deserve the right of collective bargaining, which provides protections in the workplace and better service to the public, just to name a few benefits.
IAM Union is a diverse labor union representing thousands of federal workers, including those represented by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM), an affiliate representing approximately 110,000 federal workers across the U.S.
Join us in supporting workers and their rights by writing to your Representative and Senators asking them to cosponsor and support the successful passage of the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550).
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Aug 18, 2025 | Politics & Legislative News
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Aug. 15, 2025 — The IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers), the largest defense and aerospace union in the United States, is calling on Texas U.S. Senators and U.S. Reps. Michael Cloud and Vincente Gonzalez to act immediately to stop the planned layoffs of nearly 900 workers at the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD).
The IAM represents 200 civilian defense contractors at CCAD who have received notices that their jobs will end Sept. 30, 2025. In addition, about 200 of the 2,300 federal employees at CCAD, also represented by the IAM, have been told they are among the 600 federal positions slated for elimination, with further cuts possible.
“CCAD is the world’s largest rotary-wing repair facility and is considered a Department of Defense (DoD) Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence for rotary-wing aircraft,” wrote IAM Union International President Brian Bryant. “The depot employs more than 2,500 highly skilled workers. The workforce and repair capacity at CCAD is vitally important to our military readiness and national security. To begin to disassemble this workforce and squander this capacity would be both imprudent and inefficient. CCAD is also a major economic driver for southern Texas. With CCAD pouring over $1.6 billion into the regional economy annually, job reductions on the scale proposed will have major implications for the surrounding communities
CCAD contributes more than $1.6 billion annually to the regional economy, supporting thousands of jobs across the community. The IAM warns that the proposed layoffs will not only reduce vital defense capacity but will ripple across local businesses and neighborhoods.
The IAM urges Texas lawmakers to demand the Department of Defense and U.S. Army reverse the downsizing plan and protect the depot’s mission, workforce, and economic contributions.
Read the letters:
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz
Rep. Michael Cloud
Rep. Vincente Gonzalez
The IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) is one of North America’s largest and most diverse industrial trade unions, representing approximately 600,000 active and retired members in the aerospace, defense, airlines, shipbuilding, railroad, transit, healthcare, automotive, and other industries across the United States and Canada.
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Aug 6, 2025 | Air Transport, Politics & Legislative News
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2025 – Brian Bryant, International President of the 600,000-member IAM Union, and Richie Johnsen, IAM Union Air Transport Territory General Vice President, issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia ordering Delta Air Lines to pay $8.1 million to settle alleged false claims act violations related to the Payroll Support Program:
“This settlement confirms what the IAM has said since 2020—Delta Air Lines took billions in taxpayer-funded relief money under the condition that workers’ jobs, pay and benefits would be protected, and then violated that agreement.
“The U.S. government has now validated our long-standing concerns: Delta’s actions were not just unethical but unlawful. The airline may not have reduced hourly wages, but it used mandatory unpaid leave and reduced scheduling to slash weekly and monthly pay, gutting the very protections the CARES Act was designed to uphold.
“In letters to the CEOs of Delta and JetBlue in 2020, 13 Senators led by Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wrote, “Your workers supported relief for airlines on the condition that their jobs, pay, and benefits would be protected. On April 23, 2020, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers wrote you a letter opposing your mandatory time off policy, and noting that, ‘The IAM, along with the all the other AFL-CIO affiliated transportation unions, and Delta JetBlue workers, fought for the federal stimulus to protect airline workers and save the airline industry from the ravages of the novel coronavirus pandemic,’ but that your company is ‘using that good faith support of airline workers around the country and at every carrier to [undermine the interest of your own workforces].’
“Delta arrogantly ignored the law, its workers, and even direct appeals from members of Congress. This $8.1 million penalty is long overdue, but still falls short of fully compensating the workers and families who were financially harmed.
“This is just one of many reasons why the IAM is organizing Delta workers across the country. Without a union contract, Delta management alone holds the power. Delta workers deserve a real voice on the job, legal protections, and a union that will fight for them in moments like this.
“The IAM remains committed to holding any employer accountable for misuse of public funds at the expense of working people. This case should serve as a warning: workers’ rights are not optional, and corporations are not above the law.”
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is one of North America’s largest and most diverse industrial trade unions, representing approximately 600,000 active and retired members in the aerospace, defense, airlines, railroad, transit, healthcare, automotive, and other industries across the United States and Canada.
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