I’m not aware of the quality of IAM workers. We all know that UAW workers are terrible.
In 1936, the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington, signed the industry's first labor agreement.
International president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), whom I recall:
1977–1989: William W. Winpisinger
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William W. Winpisinger's other memberships "inside the Beltway"
- - The Committee for National Health Insurance / Health Security Action Council [foundation for Hillary Clinton's effort to install national health care, followed by ObamaCare]
- - Nat’l Resource Center for Consumers of Legal Services [invents left-wing associations, organizations, "movements"]
- - Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
- - Conference on Economic Progress
- - Citizen / Labor Energy Coalition
- - Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- - Institute for Policy Studies
- - Nat’l Planning Assc’n
Quality of the IAM and UAW - AFL-CIO “workmanship”
Management is always dealing with angry, pouting, demanding Napoleons - in the form of union managers up and down the union chains of command.
“Workers” make things disappear:
- nuts and bolts
- engine parts
- panels
- wiring harnesses
- safety wire
- seals
- stamps
- tools
- structures
- gears
- grease
- instruments
- inspection gear
- lighting
- vehicles
- custom pallets
- tugs
- forms
- molds
The disappearance of parts, are “an issue” with the union, and a “white collar” manager will struggle with, or walk away from, dealing with the infernal union “shop steward” whose “job” it is to be an impassable hemorrhoid.