We Are District Lodge 2020

The Greater Mid-Atlantic District Lodge 2020, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, and has jurisdiction over all affiliated local lodges within the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, and all assigned by the Grand Lodge, with the exception of air transport and railroad lodges.

District Lodge 2020 is comprised three zones: Zone 10, Zone 74, and Zone110. Zone 10 is comprised of Local Lodge 10. Zone 74 is comprised of Local Lodges 97, 2203, 2531, 2533, 2552, and W331. Zone 110 is comprised of Local Lodges 350, 757, 1859, 2296, 2297 and 2924. The Grand Lodge will approve any requests for zone changes or additions.

The objective of District Lodge 2020 is to bring within its fold, all local Lodges of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, where they are composed of those engaged in work coming under the jurisdiction of the District, in whole or in part, and to investigate and discuss all questions affecting the interest of the craft and to secure better conditions, promote legislation and make every endeavor to impress upon unorganized workers, engaged in all branches of the Machinists trade, the necessity of joining the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and at all times to further the principles as enunciated in the Preamble and Platform of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Our further objective is to encourage trade union organizing among all other classes coming under District Lodge 2020’s jurisdiction.

This re-structure is a work in progress, but the IAM as well as the Lodges impacted by the tri-state-merger has an amazing history and we feel confident in regard to our success.

SOME MAY ASK… WHAT EXACTLY IS A UNION?

Let us try and answer that important question. A union is a democratic organization of employees in a workplace who choose to join together to achieve common goals. By forming unions, employees can work collectively with employers through their representatives to improve working conditions, higher wages and better benefits, reasonable work hours and improved job safety, and find mutually agreeable methods to resolve disagreements between employees and employers and find the best ways to get the work done.

Unions also represent members and all people who work by advocating working family-friendly laws and policies through legislative and political action. Most people who work in this country have the right to form and join unions under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which encourages union formation. Yet millions of workers, such as farm laborers, domestic workers and managers, are not covered by the NLRA. Many of them, though, are organizing and partnering with the AFL-CIO to gain workplace rights.

This Union, The International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers was founded May 5, 1888, when 19 railroad machinists secretly met in Atlanta to protect their rights from an abusive employer. During that meeting in a dirty railroad pit, those individuals could not have conceived what the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers would become. District Lodge 2020 was chartered in January of 2020. Like the founders in 1888, the members and affiliates of The Greater Mid-Atlantic District Lodge 2020 have no idea what historical actions are in our future for our great District.

Let’s see if we can give you an idea what the IAM is about and why you should give maximum consideration to joinlng our great organization today. The video shown below explains it all.