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  • iMail , News October 25, 2012

    October 2012 IAM Journal Now Available

    The October 2012 IAM Journal is now available on the IAM App. In this month’s issue, the 2012 Grand Lodge Convention sets the course for global action,  the battle rages on for a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, UCubed’s BEE MAD @ THE GOP campaign shifts into high gear, and retired IAM Local Lodge

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  • iMail , News October 25, 2012

    2012 Photo Contest Winners Announced

    Jamy Kaiser of Local Lodge 52 in Pittsburgh, PA, won first place in the 2012 IAM Photo Contest for his photo “Heat Treating.” Results of the 2012 IAM Photo Contest are in and the 2013 Calendar is rolling off the presses. The top three photography awards go to Jamy Kaiser of Local Lodge 52 in

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  • iMail , News October 25, 2012

    Canadian Retirement Home Workers Ratify First Contract

    More than three dozen retirement home workers in Orleans, Ottawa, Canada, ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. The 40 members of IAM Local Lodge 1295 work as guest attendants, cooks, registered practical nurses and receptionists at the Belcourt Manor. Their new four-year agreement provides wage increases of two per cent each year, inclusion in the

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  • iMail , News October 23, 2012

    Canada Risks Passenger Safety with Airport Screener Cuts

    “Our federal government is rolling the dice with the safety of the travelling public in this country by reducing the number of airport security screeners across Canada,” said Canadian GVP Dave Ritchie. “The lineups at airport security check-ins across the country are already too long because there aren’t enough screeners and to cut that number

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  • iMail , News October 23, 2012

    UCubed Campaign Triggers Super PAC Attack Ad

    The Union of Unemployed (UCubed) is not the least bit flattered by a copycat attack ad released by a Republican super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF). The ad targeting Ohio Democrat Betty Sutton borrows heavily from UCubed’s revolutionary social media campaign, BEE MAD @ THE GOP, which has recently gone viral with over two

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