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  • iMail , News August 20, 2013

    Winpisinger Center Class Preps Okeelanta Corp. Employees for Negotiations

    Members of the Okeelanta Corp. Negotiating Committee met at the William W. Winpisinger Center in Hollywood, MD to strategize for their upcoming contract negotiations with the company. The Negotiating Committee for over 550 IAM Local Lodge 2152 members at South Bay, FL-based sugar manufacturer Okeelanta Corp. met at the William W. Winpisinger Center recently to

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  • iMail , News August 20, 2013

    Teamsters Pull Plug on American Raid

    Amid charges of forged election authorization cards and after more than a year of causing conflict and division among workers at American Airlines and US Airways, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) has abandoned its raid of Mechanic and Related Workers at American Airlines. Citing the federal government’s opposition to the proposed US Airways/American Airlines

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  • iMail , News August 20, 2013

    New North Carolina Voting Law Takes a Shot at Democracy

    North Carolina has become the first domino to fall in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). A Washington Post editorial says the state’s new voting law, made possible by GOP majorities in both houses of the state legislature and a Republican governor, “takes the war on voting

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  • iMail , News August 20, 2013

    Join the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the March on Washington

    Fifty years ago this year, Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr., TCU/IAM’s own A. Philip Randolph and Civil Rights Activist Bayard Rustin led a gathering of Americans from all walks of life in a march on the Nation’s Capital to demand a better way of life, to banish discrimination and to secure the notion that a

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  • iMail , News August 15, 2013

    IAM, UE and Kenyon College Commit to Partnership

    From left, IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger, Kenyon College President Sean M. Decatur and UE President Bruce Klipple sit down to sign the Middle Path Partnership Agreement. Many employees also signed their names to the partnership. Members of IAM Local 2794, in conjunction with management at Kenyon College in Gambier, OH, have come together to

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