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  • iMail , News April 17, 2014

    IAM Scholarship Judges Poised to Announce 2014 Winners

    From left to right, IAM Safety and Health Department administrators Anna Georgallas and Kerri Johnson; Scholarship Judges Michael J. O’Leary, Karen Felton, Denise Simmons Graves and Julie Weismantel; and IAM Safety and Health Department Director Mike Flynn. Judges for the 2014 IAM Scholarship Competition recently gathered at Machinists Union Headquarters in Upper Marlboro, MD to

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  • iMail , News April 17, 2014

    IAM Members Awarded Union Plus Grants, Rebates

    More than 30 IAM members are the latest recipients of Union Privilege/Union Plus grants and rebates. The awards stem from programs like the Union Plus/Machinists Credit Card, the Union Plus Mortgage Program and the AT&T SmartPhone Discount, among others. The AFL-CIO created Union Privilege in 1986 to provide union members and their families valuable, exclusive

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  • iMail , News April 17, 2014

    D-Day Veteran Joe Reilly Still on Labor’s Frontline

    World War II veteran and 58-year IAM member Joe Reilly, left, chats with Retirees Department Administrative Secretary Kim Hill and IAM Retiree Daniel Gray at IAM Headquarters in Upper Marlboro, MD. Joe Reilly turns 93 in just a few weeks, but the World War II veteran and 58-year IAM member has no plans to slow

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  • iMail , News April 17, 2014

    House Dems Open Investigation into UAW-VW Vote

    Did Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) illegally interfere with the United Auto Workers’ (UAW) attempt to organize workers at the Volkswagen (VW) plant in Chattanooga, TN? Democrats in the U.S. House want to know. Reps. George Miller (D-CA) and John Tierney (D-MA) have opened an investigation into whether the

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  • IAM International News , iMail , News April 17, 2014

    What Happened to This Brazilian Aerospace Worker Will Leave You Speechless

    Martimiano, third from right, distributes T-shirts that read, translated into English, “Stop sexism, racism and homophobia.” In São José dos Campos, about an hour’s drive from the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo, working at Embraer is like wearing a badge of honor. People there are proud of the homegrown aerospace manufacturer; now the world’s No.

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