The History of District 711

711 is one of six-teen District Lodges in the Southern Territory. The Southern Territory is comprised of over 50,000 IAM members and more than 200 Locals. Fourteen states and Puerto Rico make up the territory; Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

 

In July of 1996 Grand Lodge Representative Ed Pierce was given the task of assigning numbers to the new district that would be chartered as a result of merging District 155 and District 169. It required choosing a number that would be neutral as District 155 didn't want the number 169 used and like wise, District 169 didn’t want the 155 number used. Brother Pierce decided a number that had never been assigned to a District or Local Lodge was in order, so the numbers 7-11 were chosen. His friends say that his fondness of the crap table was the main contributor, as both numbers are known to represent luck and winning.

 

In 2003 membership in District 711 numbered in excess of 7000, but due to unfair trade policies such as NAFTA and of late the failing economy, the jobs lost have the membership for the first time below 5000, to 4200. These figures drive home the ever important need for every District and Local Lodge to be active in organizing.

 

Twenty-two Local Lodges are affiliated with District 711, with thirty-one bargaining agreements, which produce quality products for everything from the saw mill industry, to nuclear weapons components.


District 711 carries on the proud traditions of the IAM and our founders, joining together to make life better for working families everywhere.

 

The following are Districts that have been merged into the making of 711 along with their Directing Business Representative.

 

District
56
Chattanooga

District 155
Nashville

District
169
Manchester

District 203
Oak Ridge

District 711
Nashville

Ed.
Pierce

H.C.
 Summers

Bill
Byrd

Jim
Stout

Ross
Welch

Eugene

Christian

John
Deckerd

 Jimmy
 Overstreet

Kenny

 Holder

Tommy

 Maynard

Bill
Wells

Jimmie

Gaunce

George

Mays

Ed
Perry

Eugene

Christian

Rickey
Wallace

Ross Welch

 

Listed below are the Local Lodges and the shops making up District 711.


Local

Company Product
56  Corley Mfg Sawmill
 Equipment
    Southern Machine
Tuffco		 Carpet Mfg.
Machinery
   Alstom Power Elec. Utility Equipment
   Mueller Company Flow control valves
  Sherman/Riley Power
Telecommunications
65  TVA-Sheffield Power Supply
414 Temple-Inland Inc. Paper mill boxes
480  Y-12-BWXT Nuclear Weapons
Components
  X-10-UT Batelle National Science Lab
  Myers-Whaley Coal Handling Equipment
  Mfg. Sciences Decommission Nuclear Waste
735 Vought Aircraft Components
   AFSS Flight Service Specialists
792 Parker Hannifin O-Ring Seals
798 Lasko Fans
  United Furniture
Workers		 UFW Insurance & Pension
  Penske Truck Rental & Repair
879 Dixie Wire Wire for Auto, Aircraft, Appliances
1157  TVA-Paducah Power Supply
1296 Trane-Clarksville A/C
  ALOG-Ft. Campbell Service Contract
1387 Setco/Haldrex-Paris Brakes/Clutches
1441 Unarco-Springfield Steel Industrial Racks
1458 TVA-Chattanooga Power Supply
1501 AEDC-Arnold AFB Machinist Aerospace Testing
1538 Southern Gage-Erin Gages
1640  Vaughn Mfg. Tool & Die Shop
  Kennedy & Bowden Tool & Die Shop
  Dyna Corporation Aircraft Maintenance
2212 Manchester Tank Propane Bottles & Tanks
2244 TVA-Greenville Ky. Power Supply
2325 Lincoln Brass Valves
2356    TVA-Cumberland City Power Supply
2385 Goodman A/C
2544  Viskase Cellulose Casing