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  • iMail , News July 29, 2014

    Tennessee Volunteers Raise $6K for GDA

    Among the items auctioned off at the 2014 Tennessee Hawgs for Dogs event was a Jack Daniels whiskey barrel. From left, District 711 Business Representative Tim Wright, Local 1501 President Paul Buckner, GDA Volunteer Teresa Blevins, and Asia. Also auctioned was a unique handmade quilt made by IAM members Angela Duren and Paula Skelton. More

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  • iMail , News July 29, 2014

    Mayor Marches 300 Miles to Urge Medicaid Expansion

      Adam O’Neal, Republican mayor of Belhaven, NC, holds up a picture of Portia Gibbs, who at 48 died from a heart attack while waiting for an airlift to a hospital in Norfolk, VA. The hospital 25 minutes from her house closed just a week before. Gibbs’ son Justin (left), and Moral Monday movement leader

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  • iMail , News July 29, 2014

    Female Mortality Rates Up; Union Jobs Can Help

    Susan Dentzer, Senior Policy Adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, moderates a panel on “Rising Mortality Rates in Women in the U.S.” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. New research yields particularly troubling trends in female mortality rates across much of the United States, said a panel of health experts at a recent forum

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  • iMail , News July 24, 2014

    Maine Lobstering Union Members Featured in Mike Michaud Ad

    Rock Alley, President of the IAM Maine Lobstering Union Local 207, is featured in a recent TV ad promoting Maine Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud. Rock Alley, President of the newly-formed IAM Maine Lobstering Union, IMLU Local 207, and Julie Eaton, Local 207 Secretary-Treasurer, were featured in a recent TV ad promoting Maine Democratic gubernatorial

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  • iMail , News July 24, 2014

    Benefits Preserved as New York Local 1180 Votes to End Calspan Strike

    IAM Local 1180 members, families and supporters hold a rally just days before members ratified a new contract with Calspan Corporation after a 10-week strike in Buffalo, NY. After nearly 10 weeks of unwavering solidarity on picket lines, 24 members of IAM Local 1180, District 65 in Western New York ratified a new three-year contract

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