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  • iMail , News December 6, 2012

    Alberta Local 99 Committee Completes Bargaining Prep

    Top row from left to Right –Mike Brown, Secretary /Treasurer Lodge 99 & District 14 Del; Neil Rudiger, President, Lodge 99 & Secretary/Treasurer of District 14; Ryan Ermet, Chief Shop Steward Lodge 99 & District 14 Delegate; Mark Meldrum, Chief Shop Steward, Lodge 99 & District 14 Delegate. Bottom row left to right – Jason

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  • iMail , News December 6, 2012

    Machinists Union to Whirlpool: ‘Spin This’

    On December 2, 2012, the Whirlpool Corporation took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post to congratulate itself on a supposed commitment to U.S. workers, their families and communities. In response, the IAM says: “Hold the applause.” Like many large corporations, Whirlpool has shuttered numerous U.S. factories during the past 10 years, eliminating thousands

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  • iMail , News December 4, 2012

    Restaurants Cutting Workers’ Hours to Avoid Health Care

    Several restaurants and their franchises, still smarting over the president’s re-election, are now threatening to layoff or cut back employee hours to avoid paying for the president’s health care plan. Users, outraged by the companies’ recent announcements, have taken to social networks Twitter and Facebook calling for a boycott. The boycott includes the Olive Garden,

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  • iMail , News December 4, 2012

    Watkins Estate Donates $50,000 to Guide Dogs of America

    The estate of Helen Watkins, wife of former IAM General Vice President George Watkins, has made another generous donation to the IAM, this time to the Guide Dogs of America (GDA). The Watkins’ Living Trust is donating $50,000 to the IAM charity. George and Helen created the Trust to support organizations they believed in once

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  • iMail , News December 4, 2012

    When Bad Things Happen to Good Members

    Among the scores of IAM members turning to their union for help in the wake of Super Storm Sandy, is Neil Trinchese, a member of New York Local 447 whose Howard Beach home was severely damaged when ocean water poured into the house. “He lost it all,” said District 15 Business Representative Perry Esposito, who

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