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  • iMail , News May 6, 2010

    Women’s Health Week Highlights HPV Prevention

    Women often postpone their own check ups and physicals to take care of other family members’ health needs.  During the week of May 9 -15, women are encouraged to remember their own health concerns, schedule appointments and educate themselves on symptoms and preventive measures for illnesses that are specific to women.   One such illness

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  • iMail , News May 6, 2010

    IAM Makes News in Stockholm

    During the past two weeks, the IAM’s organizing campaign at Swedwood USA, an IKEA subsidiary in Danville VA, has received extensive media coverage in IKEA’s home country of Sweden. The coverage included a feature story in a large monthly magazine and numerous stories in some of Sweden’s largest daily papers, as well as a 15-minute

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  • iMail , News May 4, 2010

    St. Louis Machinists Authorize Strike Actions at Boeing

    Following a lengthy strike authorization meeting, Machinists union members of District 837 who are employed at the Boeing-St. Louis, MO, Defense Systems plant voted by a margin of 99 percent to authorize a strike if the final contract offer from the company is not accepted on June 13, 2010. IAM members at the meeting rose

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  • iMail , News May 4, 2010

    Local 743 Machinists Ratify Pact with Hamilton Sunstrand

    Members of Local 743 in Windsor Locks, CT, have voted overwhelmingly to approve a new three-year contract with aviation electronics manufacturer Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. The new accord, which covers more than 1,000 members, successfully addressed members’ top concerns. According to District 26 ADBR Jim Parent, the contract includes 2.5 percent pay raises for each of

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  • iMail , News May 4, 2010

    UCubed Activists Craft Emergency Jobs Plan

    The process of crafting an emergency action plan for reversing the U.S. jobs crisis continues as thousands of UCubed job activists vote on a list of key policy recommendations. The results of the online survey will become the focal point of a nationwide campaign entitled Hire US, America. UCubed members have spent weeks deliberating the

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