INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS on FEC forms: $25.8M

A union name used as an employer field

Some filers list the union as employer; some list the shop. The $25.8M total is the INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS string. It is not manufacturing output, not a strike fund, and not every IAM local's committee activity.

NAICS 33 is not applied. ENGINEER and CONTRACTOR are occupation words, not this organization name.

873 donors, 108,410 lines, $25.8M

873 donors produced 108,410 contribution lines totaling $25.8M. Receipts per unique donor are among the highest in this industry harvest, in the same neighborhood as NOT EMPLOYED's extreme line count but on a far smaller donor base. Repeat itemized gifts — including small recurring amounts — can produce that shape. This page does not invent a mean.

Party share is not on the industry headline. A union PAC, if disclosed as a committee, is a different FEC object than this individual-label rollup.

Shop employers and job titles

Members who typed an airline, a defense plant, or 'machinist' as occupation without the association name are in other rows. Those dollars are not inside $25.8M.

Occupation pages show titles next to this employer string. Locals that were typed as different abbreviations would be other keys. IAM, IAMAW, and local-lodge abbreviations may exist as other strings. This page is INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS as harvested: $25.8M, 873 donors, 108,410 lines. Members who typed a plant or airline as employer are on company keys. Members who typed machinist as a job title without the association are on occupation-like keys.

Donor table

The INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS donor table lists disclosed names and amounts. A large gift is a public individual contribution. It is not evidence about a contract campaign or a plant closing. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the union-name string.

With 873 donors, the unique-name list is short; the line list is long. Match on committee and date when names collide. Union PACs are committees. Individual receipts tagged with the association name are not automatically that PAC's disbursements. Keep $25.8M labeled as individual employer text from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $25.8M, 108,410 contributions, 873 donors, top employer INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS. Unitemized and non-federal activity are omitted.

Follow recipient committees from the table. This is not the union's official PAC page. Receipts per unique donor run high here. Recurring itemized programs can post many small lines. The packet still does not publish a mean. Do not invent one in a caption without labeling the arithmetic as yours.

Locals, shop employers, and committee PACs

INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS as typed is not every local abbreviation and not automatically the Machinists' PAC. The $25.8M total, 108,410 contribution lines, and 873 donors are this stored organization name on individual receipts. Members who typed a plant, airline, or job title without the association harvested elsewhere. Unitemized gifts and state races are omitted. LobbyVault does not apply NAICS manufacturing codes.

High line count on 873 donors is a repeat-gift pattern, including small itemized recurring amounts. This page does not publish a mean. Occupation pages show titles next to the association name. Open the donor table for names and federal recipient committees. The string is self-reported FEC text, not a NAICS industry, from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Manufacturing NAICS codes are not applied. ENGINEER and CONTRACTOR are different words. Cite the 873-donor table for names and federal recipient committees, not as a union-membership census. Lodge abbreviations and IAMAW spellings may sit in other keys. This page is INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS: $25.8M, 873 donors, 108,410 lines. Shop employers (plants, airlines) and the job title machinist without the association name siphon members out. Union PACs remain committees; $25.8M is individual employer text, not automatically PAC disbursements. High line count on 873 people is a repeat-gift pattern, including small itemized recurring amounts, not a mean this page will invent. Occupation pages show titles next to the association name. Unitemized gifts and state races are omitted. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. The string is not a NAICS manufacturing sector and not a membership census.

Questions

How much is tagged INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS on FEC forms?

LobbyVault attributes $25.8M to that employer string, from 108,410 contributions and 873 donors. This is individual receipt text, not automatically the Machinists' PAC, and not a NAICS manufacturing total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is this the Machinists union PAC?

Not by itself. These are itemized individual contributions whose employer/occupation text is INT'L ASSOC OF MACHINISTS. Committee PACs are other FEC schedules. Shop-name employers are other industry keys. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Why so many contributions from only 873 donors?

Each itemized gift is a line. Repeat giving by 873 unique donors produced 108,410 contribution lines. Recurring small itemized gifts can create that ratio. The packet does not publish an average. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include every IAM member's giving?

No. Only receipts grouped under this stored string. Members who typed a company name or a job title without the association are in other rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.