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  • iMail , News June 4, 2013

    Spanish Leadership Working Group Updates WWW Curriculum

    Members from the U.S. and Canada, representing many Latin American countries including Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and the Dominican Republic, make up the Spanish Leadership Working Group (SLWG), which met at the William W. Winpisinger (WWW) Education Center in Hollywood, MD. The diverse group has been tasked with reviewing, revising, and updating the curriculum

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  • iMail , News June 4, 2013

    IAM Supports 42nd International CBTU Convention

    IAM members and leaders were among hundreds of delegates and guests in Orlando for the opening session of the 42nd International Convention of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). Diane Babineaux, Chief of Staff to the IAM International President, led a delegation of IAM members to the 42nd International Convention of the Coalition of

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  • iMail , News June 4, 2013

    ‘Atlanta’s Hometown Union’ Makes Triumphant Return to the South

    Participants to the 2013 IAM National Staff Conference in Atlanta gather on the Georgia State House steps holding signs proclaiming the IAM as “Atlanta’s Hometown Union” and wearing shirts commemorating the union’s 125th anniversary. The 2013 IAM Staff Conference closed with a rousing march to the Georgia State House and a rededication of Machinists Union

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  • News May 31, 2013

    IAM Mourns International Labor Leader Marcello Malentacchi

    The global labor movement lost a good friend and a strong ally when Marcello Malentacchi (left), the General Secretary of the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF), died recently while cycling near his birthplace in Tuscany, Italy. Marcello Malentacchi, a 20-year General Secretary of the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) and a close friend of the IAM, passed

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  • iMail , News May 30, 2013

    New IAM Video Profiles ‘The American Dream’

    A new video on the Machinists News Network showcases the real meaning of living the “American Dream.” To the five IAM members profiled, the real American Dream is having an IAM contract. Marcus Glover has been a Machinist for 27 years. He works for Boeing in Huntsville, AL, as a Material Specialist. Glover says his

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