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  • iMail , News October 13, 2009

    GOP Delays Unemployment Extension

        More than 400,000 Americans exhausted their unemployment benefits on October 1, 2009. That number is expected to reach over a million by the end of the year. Still, a small minority of Republican Senators are playing politics with a compromise bill that would extend benefits for those individuals and their families. The group,

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  • iMail , News October 13, 2009

    Workers Celebrate Demise of Bush-era NSPS

    “This is a great triumph for all federal workers,” said IAM Government Employees Department Director Frank Carelli, following news that congressional conferees removed the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) from the 2010 DOD Authorization bill. “The courage and perseverance of our members and the solidarity of the United Defense Workers Coalition (UDWC) helped put the

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  • iMail , News October 13, 2009

    Check Out IAM on Facebook, Twitter

    The IAM is now on social network sites Facebook and Twitter. Join our pages to receive news and updates important to working families. JOBS Now! is also on Facebook. Share the link with family and friends and join IAM Legislative Director Matthew McKinnon, Heather Lawrence Murch of Local 2525 and Local 2559 President Melissa Campbell

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  • iMail , News October 13, 2009

    AFL-CIO Leaders Endorse Boeing Tanker Bid

    Boeing’s bid for the Air Force’s $35 billion aerial refueling tanker contract is the clear choice for investing in American workers, skills, security and future, according to the presidents of 10 AFL-CIO state federations in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. “Given the current state of the U.S. economy, taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be funding

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  • iMail , News October 13, 2009

    Connecticut Lawmakers Help Preserve 3,000 Jobs

    IAM District 26 took time out from their non-stop battle to save Connecticut aerospace jobs to deliver a public “thank you” to the Connecticut congressional delegation for their help defeating legislation that would have cost up to 3,000 jobs. Attending the event at the Local 700 union hall in Middletown, CT, was Senator Joe Lieberman,

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