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  • iMail , News May 27, 2014

    IAM District 70 Saving Big with MAPP Discount Program

    Coleen Suffield, owner of South Seneca Auto Care in Wichita, KS, offers IAM District 70 members discounts on parts and labor through the Machinists Advantage Partnership Program. Local businesses in Wichita, KS are quickly signing up to become a part of IAM District 70’s Machinists Advantage Partnership Program (MAPP), which provides exclusive discounts and benefits

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  • iMail , News May 23, 2014

    A Memorial Day Message from International President R. Thomas Buffenbarger

    An Army soldier places an American flag in front of a grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia as part of a Memorial Day tradition started in 1948. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Army) Sisters and Brothers, Memorial Day is a day to remember our fallen service men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice

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  • iMail , News May 22, 2014

    Hertz Organizing Win Expands IAM Presence in U.S. Virgin Islands

    U.S. Virgin Islands Local 340 recently notched its fifth organizing win in three years when seven maintenance and office administration workers at Hertz Rental Car in St. Croix voted unanimously to join the IAM. They become the first non-government employees from the U.S. Virgin Islands to join the IAM. “The name of the IAM is

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  • iMail , News May 22, 2014

    IAM Supports 2014 CBTU Convention

    IAM General Vice President Diane Babineaux, fourth from left, is joined by a large contingent of IAM members at the 43rd Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) International Annual Convention in Atlanta. More than 500 union members from across the country, including over a dozen IAM members led by IAM General Vice President Diane Babineaux,

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  • iMail , News May 22, 2014

    IAM Members Defeat GOP Attack on Service Contract Act Workers

    Strong grassroots opposition from IAM members led to three anti-union, anti-working family amendments to the Defense budget bill being withdrawn this week in the U.S. House. The amendments sought to eliminate key worker protections under the Service Contract Act (SCA), including one that attempted to strip contracted union members of their right to strike. The

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