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  • iMail , News February 1, 2011

    Southern Territory Organizes C-130 Workers in Florida

    One hundred and seventy six workers at Defense Support Services at Hurlburt Field in Fort Walton Beach, FL, voted recently to be represented by the Machinists Union. The workers perform maintenance and repair for the C-130 aircraft at the base. A team from District 75 in Daleville, AL, including Business Representatives Tony Wirth, Steve Jordan

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  • iMail , News February 1, 2011

    Arizona Budget Cuts Put Lives at Risk

    After the Tea Party-induced firestorm about imaginary death panels in health care reform, GOP budget cuts to Medicaid in Arizona are resulting in deaths for patients who had qualified for Medicaid coverage for organ transplants but were dropped after the GOP-controlled state legislature and GOP Governor cut funding for the program. Ninety-eight patients became ineligible,

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  • iMail , News February 1, 2011

    BLS Data Confirms Union Advantages

    The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions declined in 2010 by 612,000 to 14.7 million. The rate was 11.9 percent, down from 12.3 percent in 2009. The data also shows the median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary union members was $917 per

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  • iMail , News February 1, 2011

    New Address for Southern Territory Regional Office

    The Southern Territory regional office has moved to a new location in Arlington, TX. The new mail and shipping address is: IAM Southern Territory Regional Office 1521 N. Cooper Street, Suite 250 Arlington, TX 76011 Phone (817) 505-0100 Fax (817) 459-0102

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  • iMail , News January 25, 2011

    Machinists Question Immelt Jobs Agenda

    In the past five months, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt eliminated scores of U.S. jobs when he closed GE plants in Virginia, Massachusetts and Ohio. The IAM is asking if this is the record that inspired President Obama to name Immelt to be chairman of the new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. “We are rewarding

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