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  • iMail , News March 27, 2014

    NLRB: Northwestern University Football Players Can Unionize

    Courtesy of Gary Huck The Northwestern University football team won without having to set foot on the gridiron. After the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago ruled that the players meet the definition of an employee, the Wildcat football team now has the right to hold a union election. Click here to read the landmark

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  • iMail , News March 25, 2014

    Local 681 Preps for Negotiations at WWW Center

    IAM members at Reynolds Packaging Group in Louisville, KY prepared for upcoming contract negotiations by attending classes at the William W. Winpisinger (WWW) Education and Technology Center. Local 681 represents Maintenance Employees at the facility, which manufactures Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil. The WWW Center’s week-long Negotiation Preparation for Bargaining Committees Program helped them make a

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  • iMail , News March 25, 2014

    Machinists Union Steps Up to Support Native Rights

    At a gathering of the Inter Tribal Warriors Society in Washington state, General Vice President Gary Allen, second from right, presented a donation to the Council for First Inhabitants Rights and Equality (Council FIRE), an advocacy group for Native American issues founded by Western Territory Grand Lodge Representative Kevin Cummings, right. The labor movement has

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  • iMail , News March 25, 2014

    Register Now for the 2014 Communications Conference

    The 2014 IAM Communications Conference will feature a tour of NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, where IAM members help operate some of NASA’s most important programs. The 2014 IAM Communications Conference is scheduled for Sunday, June 1 through Wednesday, June 4, 2014, at the Loews New Orleans Hotel, 300 Poydras Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

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  • iMail , News March 25, 2014

    Cheap Prison Labor Thwarts IAM Members at NAS Pensacola, U.S. Navy to Investigate

    Left to right, IAM Headquarters General Vice President Bob Martinez, Jr., U.S. Naval Secretary Ray Mabus, AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department President Ron Ault and IAM District 75 Business Representative/Assistant Directing Business Representative Henry “Pappy” Perrigin meet to discuss the need for an investigation into the use of prison inmates to perform work belonging to IAM

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