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  • iMail , News October 7, 2014

    320 Indiana Machinists at Schneider Electric On Strike

    Approximately 320 IAM Local 2069 members are on strike against Schneider Electric in Peru, IN. The workers hit the streets at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. IAM members voted to reject the company’s final offer, which would have taken away a long-standing defined benefit pension plan. The rejected proposal had minimal wage increases

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  • iMail , News October 2, 2014

    Report: Pentagon Skirting Buy American Act, Costing U.S. Jobs

    A new report by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), left, calls attention to the staggering amount of Buy American Act waivers, granted by the Department of Defense and other federal agencies, that are hurting U.S. manufacturers. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) spent over $163 billion of taxpayer money on goods manufactured by foreign companies

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  • iMail , News October 2, 2014

    IAM Locals Join Forces for Upcoming ULA Negotiations

    Members of the IAM Coordinated Bargaining Committee take part in realistic mock bargaining in preparations for actual negotiations with United Launch Alliance (ULA). A trio of local lodges from Alabama, Florida and California sent representatives to the William W. Winpisinger Center recently for an intensive week of training in preparation for upcoming contract negotiations with

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  • iMail , News October 2, 2014

    Lockheed Contractor Triggers IAM Strike in Kentucky

    IAM members employed by Allsource Global Management (AGM) at the Bluegrass Station Army Depot in Lexington, KY are on strike after the company refused to bargain in good faith. IAM members employed by Allsource Global Management (AGM) at the Bluegrass Station Army Depot in Lexington, KY voted overwhelmingly to strike after the company refused to

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  • iMail , News September 30, 2014

    Dems Urge Rules Against Child Labor in U.S. Tobacco Fields

    Pictured left to right, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) President Baldemar Velasquez, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and British Members of Parliament Ian Lavery and James Sheridan tour a North Carolina tobacco field to speak with farmworkers during FLOC’s summer 2014 “Respect, Recognition, Raise!” organizing campaign. (Credit: FLOC) Reps.

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