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Submit your pet’s photo for a chance to win one of five grand prizes in the Union Plus Cutest Pet photo contest. Two winners will get a free year-long membership to Union Plus Pet Health Insurance, which provides head-to-tail accident and illness pet insurance for dogs and cats. Three winners will get a $100, $200
Read moreIn a Progressive Leaders Forum that aired on Sirius XM 127’s “The Agenda” radio show, IAM Retiree Diane Fleming joined Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and other Social Security advocates to discuss new ways to strengthen the country’s social safety net. Republicans in Congress have relentlessly targeted Social Security for cuts, even though the program doesn’t
Read moreIt’s day 95 on the picket line for members of IAM Local Lodge 79 on strike against Belshaw Adamatic, an international bakery equipment maker based in Auburn, WA. The 60 members traded their tools for picket signs when the company refused to pass health care costs savings – proposed by the local – back down
Read moreLess than 48 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, six Republican-led states are moving forward with laws proven to have adverse effects on the abilities of minorities, young people, the elderly and the poor to exercise their right to vote. In a 5-4 decision,
Read moreNeville Hamilton Former IAM Canadian Director of Communications Neville Hamilton passed away on June 27, 2013, at the age of 74. Hamilton came to the IAM in 1986 after spending five years as the Administrative Assistant to Canadian Labour Congress President Dennis McDermott. Hamilton started as a journalist whose career took him from the Sherbrooke
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