We sent a group to the retirement dinner of our International President, Robert Martinez Jr. last night. Congratulations Robert, enjoy it!

Congratulations, enjoy it! September 3, 2002 to April 30, 2024!

2 days left to request an absentee ballot for deciding who goes to the Grand Convention in September. Get to your Steward asap if you need to!

The prototypes were present at todays union meeting!

The Grand Lodge Convention in September allows for two representatives and a back up. The nominees are :

• Joe Paneck
• Gary Knight
• Ron Everett
• Derek Blackburn
• Al Nuzzo

The vote to see which three are chosen is next union meeting May 18th. Absentee Ballots may be requested by anyone who lives more than 20 miles from the lodge or those on vacation on the 18th. Get with your shop stewards to request a ballot, deadline to request a ballot is April 26th.

Of course you are! Our negotiating team brought back with them a handy guide book full of guidance regarding our upcoming negotiations. Got it digitalized and here it is in pdf format. Enjoy and share!

http://andrewsiam.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/readyfornegotiations.pdf

Link above is for the direct download, viewer below for in website viewing.

The last day of the five-day course at the Winpisinger Center is done. Certificates were awarded to all the members of the Bargaining Committee who were able to attend and complete the course this year. The Bargaining Committee spent many long hours developing proposals designed to address your interests and we look forward to representing all of us in the Collective Bargaining Agreement Negotiations with Amentum and T-Square. We hope you followed our progress throughout the five days and were able to learn about how the Bargaining Committee will represent you later this year.

Here is the list of attendees, who make up over 80% of your Bargaining Committee.

Thank you, Brothers and SIsters, for your trust and confidence in allowing us to be your voice at the bargaining table.

Day 4 of the five-day course at the Winpisinger Center is in the books. If you’ve followed along on our journey, you can probably guess that today was all about what to expect during the actual negotiations as well as how to present our union’s requests to the company. We are truly excited to represent all of you during the upcoming negotiations. The majority of the day (8 hours) was spent crafting and presenting proposals and where appropriate, counter proposals.

We look forward to concluding our class tomorrow. Check back once more tomorrow when we will share our wrap-up of the class.

In solidarity,

Joe Paneck,

President, IAM Local Lodge 24

Hey everyone, this April the 13th we will be having a Council meeting at union HQ! It will begin at 9am and go until everyone is done! Several maryland politicians will be speaking as well as most of our union leadership! Our turnout in the past has been lacking and we need to turn this around. There will be a BBQ on site, brisket, burgers and hotdogs. This is a great opportunity for our old guard as well as newer hires!

Anyone interested in attending reach out to your steward or higher. The more the merrier folks!

It is Day 3 of the five-day course at the Winpisinger Center. We are still at work (1945 hours) diligently preparing the proposals concerning items you informed us was important to you to present to the company. Today, we learned about the language to use in the proposals. We also prepared a Bargaining Survival Guide which will clarify what happens during Negotiating. We plan on sharing these guides with all the brothers and sisters who wish to know about the process.  Please check back with us tomorrow for a Day 4 update.