Message from JetBlue Organizers: Personal Time Has Value
Remember who you're really working for: Managers think that our jobs should be the most important things in our lives and that everything else should come second. They think that we should put aside things like family, building memories, and just doing nothing at all...
The Machinists Union held its Grand Lodge Convention in Las Vegas this week. This year, District 141 was recognized with a special award for its efforts at union organizing. District President, Mike Klemm, was specifically honored for his pioneering efforts in growing the Union, which is expected to add more than ten thousand new union members over the next few years.
Machinists Local S6 Members Successfully End Largest Strike in United States
/// Originally posted on GOIAM.org /// While the following story describes events outside the aviation and aerospace industries, it represents a major milestone in the history of our great union, and so we want to make a record of it at IAM141.org. The strike action...
Video Report: Tony Colina, President of Houston’s Above the Wing Local 2198
A Conversation With Tony Colina, President of Local 2198 in HoustonThe President of the biggest little old local in Texas.Hi everybody!I started my airline career in August 1996 with Continental Airlines where I worked the Reservations foreign language desk taking...
Join the Fight to Save the USPS
With passenger counts dropping, mail and cargo have become critical to the survival of airlines. Concerns are rising, however, about the future of mail in the US. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is an institution even older than our country. The USPS is an independent...
IAMAW District 141 Names Three Auditors
[supsystic-social-sharing id='3']IAMAW District 141 is welcoming three new Auditors this week. District President Mike Klemm named Faysal Silwany, Helena Thornton, and John Martinez to the new positions last Wednesday. "Our District 141 Auditors serve a vital role for...
IAM Reopens Winpisinger Education and Technology Center to In-Person Classes
[supsystic-social-sharing id='3']With COVID-19 protocols in place, the IAM reopened its classrooms this week at the William W. Winpisinger Education and Technology Center in Hollywood, MD, to participants resuming in-person programs for the first time since March...
Machinists Union Member Meets President Biden
[supsystic-social-sharing id='3']IAM District Lodge 66 member Mike Davis recently got the chance of a lifetime to meet President Biden. After the president gave a speech pushing his $1 trillion infrastructure plan at the La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility in...
141 Report: Daryl Current, Taking Care of Business and People
After laboring through four airline mergers and doing his fair share of moving around to keep his airline job over 37 years, Daryl Current has a deep appreciation for what a good union contract can do for workers. 141 Report host Dave Lehive catches up with his...

