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9000 MACHINISTS PL
UPPER MARLBORO, MD 207722687

IAM's Locals and Other Affiliated Organizations

UnionUnit Name/LocationMembers
Machinists National Headquarters
Upper Marlboro, MD		596,760
Machinists Conference Northeastern States
Ashland, OH		47,163
Machinists State Council Washington
Seattle, WA		36,000
Machinists District Lodge 141
Burlingame, CA		32,039
Machinists District Lodge 751
Seattle, WA		29,405
Machinists State Council California
Petaluma, CA		28,000
Machinists State Council New York
Adams, NY		24,504
Machinists State Council Pennsylvania
Altoona, PA		24,155
Machinists District Lodge 10
Milwaukee, WI		19,197
Machinists Lodge 751
Seattle, WA		18,056
» See All Locals and Other Affiliated Organizations

Source: Office of Labor-Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: October 29th, 2012

Financial Information

The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA), which is enforced by the Office of Labor-Management Standards, requires labor unions to file annual reports detailing their operations. Contained in those reports are breakdowns of each union's spending, income and other financial information.

Total Assets Trend

Basic Financials

  • Total Assets?: $155,710,506.00
  • Total Liabilities?: $8,486,687.00
  • Total Income?: $149,657,857.00
  • Total Spent?: $149,462,945.00

» See Historical Financial Information

Assets (Change from previous report)

  • Cash?: $24,291,525.00 (+0.8%)
  • Accounts Receivable?: $6,951,497.00 (-9.7%)
  • Investments?: $88,591,326.00 (+4.0%)
  • Fixed Assets?: $31,923,569.00 (+4.0%)
  • Treasury Securities?: $426,888.00 (-66.1%)
  • Other Assets?: $2,317,195.00 (+18.5%)
  • Loans Receivable?: $1,208,506.00 (-3.8%)

Liabilities

Income

  • Dues?: $737,247.00
  • Per Person Tax?: $116,807,784.00
  • Investments?: $3,513,411.00
  • Supplies?: $413,305.00
  • Loan Repayment?: $0.00
  • Interest?: $1,491,486.00
  • Dividends?: $1,005,989.00
  • Rents?: $110,609.00
  • Fees and Fines?: $40,125.00
  • Loans Obtained?: $0.00
  • Other Receipts?: $10,554,284.00
  • Affiliates?: $13,946,541.00
  • Members?: $1,007,456.00
  • Reinvestments?: $29,620.00
  • All Others?: $254,385.00

Source: Office of Labor Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: October 29th, 2012

Spending

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) requires unions to report how they spent their money in a number of categories. For the first five, OLMS requires unions to provide detailed information on any recipient that received more than $5,000 per year.

Total Spent in 2011: $149,462,945.00

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Spending Breakdown

  • Representational?: $43,210,330.00 (28.91%)
  • Political Activities and Lobbying?: $2,403,735.00 (1.61%)
  • Contributions, Gifts, and Grants?: $1,566,654.00 (1.05%)
  • General Overhead?: $27,442,907.00 (18.36%)
  • Union Administration?: $20,198,918.00 (13.51%)
  • Strike Benefits?: $1,545,000.00 (1.03%)
  • To Union Officers?: $2,551,213.00 (1.71%)
  • To Union Employees?: $38,731,405.00 (25.91%)
  • Education?: $0.00 (0.00%)
  • Fees?: $0.00 (0.00%)

Source: Office of Labor Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: October 29th, 2012

Membership

Total Members: 580,980

Membership Trend



YearMembers
2002673,095
2003627,408
2004610,426
2005653,781
2006646,933
2007648,331
2008641,723
2009613,758
2010596,760
2011580,980

Income per Member: $257.59

Dues

31.78 per MONTH

Source: Office of Labor Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: October 29th, 2012

Officers and Employees

  • Average Total Compensation: $110,974.78
  • Total Employees: 372
  • Employees Making more than $75,000: 224

Top Ten Highest Paid Leaders

NameTitleTotal Compensation
WARREN MARTGENERAL SECRETARY-TREAS$398,701.00
ROBERT BUFFENBARGERINTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT$292,738.00
LYNN TUCKERGENERAL VICE PRESIDENT$282,061.00
OWEN HERRNSTADTDIR INTERNATIONAL DEPT$273,847.00
PHILIP GRUBERGENERAL VICE PRESIDENT$270,220.00
GARY ALLENGENERAL VICE PRESIDENT$265,297.00
ROBERT MARTINEZGENERAL VICE PRESIDENT$265,246.00
DAVE RITCHIEGENERAL VICE PRESIDENT$260,383.00
RICHARD MICHALSKIGENERAL VICE PRESIDENT$258,765.00
ROBERT ROACH JR.GENERAL VICE PRESIDENT$257,802.00

» See All Employees' Compensation and Salary History

Source: Office of Labor Management Standards

Year Covered: 2011 Last Updated: October 29th, 2012

Political Activities

FEC

Overall Contributions

Democrats: $14,474,145.00 (0.9724)
Republicans: $265,174.00 (0.0178)

IAM's Political Action Committees

Political Action CommitteeTotal Contributed
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union$14,288,920.00
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union$584,964.00
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Local 837$10,601.00

Source: Federal Elections Commission by way of the Center for Responsive Politics

Last Updated: October 29th, 2012

State-level Political Operations

Democrats: $4,900.00

Source: National Institute on Money in State Politics by way of Transparency Data.

Last Updated: October 29th, 2012

Lobbying

Federal Lobbying

Total Spent Lobbying: $15,598,033.00

Lobbying Expenditures Trend

IAM's Major Issues

IssueTotal Spent Lobbying

IAM Lobbying Groups

ClientTotal Spent Lobbying
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union$11,832,680.00
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Dist 9$3,765,353.00

Source: Center for Responsive Politics

Last Updated: March 1st, 2011

Crime, Corruption, and Racketeering

Corruption and Embezzlement Charges

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) conducts investigations to determine if violations of the Labor-Management Relations and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) provisions have occurred.

Investigations are initiated based on various sources such as complaints from union members; information developed by OLMS as a result of reviewing reports filed; information developed during an OLMS audit of a union’s books and records; and information obtained from other government agencies. Investigations may involve civil matters (such as an election of union officers) or criminal matters (such as embezzlement of union funds).

Type of Criminal ActivityNumber of Incidents
Criminal Charges42
Criminal Convictions6
Embezzlement Charges69
Guilty Pleas68
Indictments37
Officials Sentenced45

Some incidents may be accounted for in multiple categories.

Source: Office of Labor-Management Standards

Last Updated: March 1st, 2011

Financial Audits

The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) has responsibility under the Labor-Management Relations and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) to conduct audits to determine if unions are complying with the law.

OLMS uses a streamlined audit approach called the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to audit local unions which utilizes specialized records review and investigative techniques to verify LMRDA compliance.

LocalViolationsView Audit
IAM Local 17451Full Audit Text
IAM Local 837-A2Full Audit Text
IAM Local W-674Full Audit Text
IAM Local 14303Full Audit Text
IAM Local 18131Full Audit Text
IAM Local 13201Full Audit Text
IAM Local 13382Full Audit Text
IAM Local 18859Full Audit Text
IAM Local 246 W2Full Audit Text
IAM Local 364 W0Full Audit Text
IAM Local 20013Full Audit Text
IAM Local 11807Full Audit Text
IAM Local 15804Full Audit Text
IAM Local 16021Full Audit Text
IAM Local 13513Full Audit Text
IAM Local 6194Full Audit Text
IAM Local 24501Full Audit Text
IAM Local S75Full Audit Text
IAM Local 27596Full Audit Text
IAM Local 24525Full Audit Text
IAM Local LG 3303Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1113Full Audit Text
IAM Local 837B1Full Audit Text
IAM Local 6882Full Audit Text
IAM Local 7Full Audit Text
IAM Local 24Full Audit Text
IAM Local 368Full Audit Text
IAM Local 523Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1052Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1202Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1886Full Audit Text
IAM Local 2053Full Audit Text
IAM Local 2069Full Audit Text
IAM Local 2410Full Audit Text
IAM Local 10Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1918Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1526Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1297Full Audit Text
IAM Local 244Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1776Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1115Full Audit Text
IAM Local 112Full Audit Text
IAM Local 2269Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1855Full Audit Text
IAM Local 912Full Audit Text
IAM Local 1689Full Audit Text
IAM Local 656Full Audit Text
IAM Local 804Full Audit Text
IAM Local 681Full Audit Text
IAM Local 2208Full Audit Text

Source: Office of Labor-Management Standards

Last Updated: January 1st, 2010

Union Decertifications

Unionized employees can elect to revoke a union's right to represent them through a process called a decertification. In order to decertify a union, a majority of the unionized employees must vote to remove the union in an election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

Total Decertification Petitions: 333

Recent Decertification Petitions

Case NumberName/UnionDate Filed
06-RD-01635Snyder of Berlin, A Division of Birdseye Foods, Inc.
International Association of Machinists and Areospace Workers, AFL-CIO, District Lodge 98		March 9th, 2009
09-RD-02188Leggett & Platt Inc.
International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, Local 619		March 4th, 2009
18-RD-02673Sioux City Inspection and Weighing Service
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers		February 26th, 2009
10-RD-01483UPS FREIGHT
I A M		January 16th, 2009
20-RD-02473Allied Waste
Machinist Automotive Trades District Lodge 190, Local 1414		January 14th, 2009
04-RD-02148First Student (Colmar)
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 447		January 9th, 2009
11-RD-00712UPS Ground Freight, Inc. d/b/a UPS Freight, Inc.
International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO		December 29th, 2008
09-RD-02183UPS Freight, Inc.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO		December 24th, 2008
27-RD-01219UPS, Freight
International Associatoin of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, and Local 568		December 22nd, 2008
09-RD-02182UPS Freight, Inc.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO		December 12th, 2008

» See All Decertifications

Source: National Labor Relations Board; Case Activity Tracking System

Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Allegations

Unionized employees, business owners, managers, and others often bring labor law charges against unions. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) oversees the porcess of determining if the union violated the National Labor Relations Act.

AllegationCases Filed
Duty of Fair Representation1178
Other Allegations327
Union Security Related (including Beck)183
Union Security Related108
Coercive Statements47
Threatening Statements36
Resignation of Membership (Patternmakers)22
Bad Faith/Surface Bargaining (Succeeding Contract)22
Harassment19
Discipline (including charges/fines)17
Refusal to Bargain (Succeeding Contract)13
Failure to Sign Agreement13
Bad Faith/Surface Bargaining (Initial Contract)12
Disparagement of Employee10
Requiring Payments other than dues8
Picketing/Strike Actions8
All Allegations8
Superseniority (Dairylea)7
Reserved Gate Issues6
Language on Picket Sign/Handbill6

Please notes a single case may fall into multiple allegation categories.

Source: National Labor Relations Board; Case Activity Tracking System

Recent Strikes

Employer/LocationUnionDays on StrikeEmployees on Strike
Chemineer Inc.
Dayton, OH		IAMAW Local 2256278
U S Hose
Romeoville, IL		IAM Local 1241348
Renold Inc.
Westfield, NY		IAMAW Local 155514369
A Schulman Inc
Bellevue, OH		IAMAW Local 21591776
Cytec Engineered Materials
Anaheim, CA		IAMAW Local 90647180
CSC Applied Technologies LLC
Vance AFB, OK		IAMAW Local 89815800
Bird Chevrolet
Dubuque, IA		IAM Local 1238 Dist 6316
SK Hand Tool Corp
Defiance, OH		IAM Local 13562172
Moncure Plywood LLC
Moncure, NC		IAMAW Local D W2, L W369261201
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Two Rivers, WI		IAMAW Local 51611255

» See all strikes

Source: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

Pensions

Pensions Linked to the Union

Pension Name/SponsorMembersFunding Percentage
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Pension Plan
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers		3,040

Source: Internal Revenue Service.