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  • iMail , News October 23, 2012

    President Vows Sequestration ‘Will Not Happen’

    The third and final debate between President Barack Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney included a surprise declaration from the president that billions in across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration, will not take place. More than $1.2 trillion in sequestration cuts are called for under last year’s Budget Control Act, which was how congressional lawmakers

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  • iMail , News October 18, 2012

    GST Roach Announces New Appointments

    Darryl Holloway General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., announced the appointments of Darryl Holloway to Assistant Building Facilitator, Lisa Hyde to Pension Administrator and Cecilia Murphy to Assistant Kitchen Supervisor at the William W. Winpisinger Center. “The GST Department is always re-evaluating and exploring new ways to better serve the membership,” said GST Roach. “Collectively, Holloway,

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  • iMail , News October 18, 2012

    Ohio Early Voting Upheld, Registration Deadlines Loom

    In another setback for the GOP and its malicious attempts to suppress the minority, young and elderly vote, the U.S. Supreme Court this week unanimously upheld a lower court’s decision to allow early voting three days before the election in the state of Ohio. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied Ohio Secretary of State Jon

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  • iMail , News October 18, 2012

    IndustriALL Secures Pensions for Workers’ Widows

    As a follow-up to a harrowing video shown to delegates of the 38th IAM Grand Lodge Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, last month about the life-threatening working conditions of shipbreaking workers in India, the newly-formed union federation, IndustriALL, has some promising news to report.  After three years of fighting, the widows and families of six

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  • iMail , News October 18, 2012

    Local 1998 Prepares for Negotiations with BAE Systems

    Winpisinger Center Director Chris Wagoner, standing, second from left, held a special onsite Negotiation Preparation for Bargaining Committee class for the Local 1998 Negotiating Committee in Hawaii. From left, standing, Maria Santiago Lillis, Chris Wagoner, Josh Elmore, Rex Baccay, Billy Panui, Mario Castro and Don Barlan. Seated from left: Cynthia Gallagher and Oscar Reyes. The

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