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  • iMail , News January 3, 2013

    IAM Wins First Contract at Spirit AeroSystems in North Carolina

    IAM members at Spirit AeroSystems in Kinston, NC recently ratified an historic first agreement that aims to help grow the new facility with a ground-breaking partnership. The contract is a 12-year accord, which will continue year-to-year thereafter unless one party or the other asks to negotiate anew. A Joint Partnership Committee will be established to

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  • iMail , News January 3, 2013

    Hostess Workers Fight for Final Paychecks

    While current and former executives at bankrupt Hostess Brands, Inc., decide how to spend millions in bonuses, hourly workers are discovering their final paychecks will be short several hundred dollars in promised vacation pay. According to a bankruptcy-brokered Employee Retention Program at Hostess, workers taking part in the shutdown of Hostess facilities and those workers

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  • iMail , News December 18, 2012

    December 18 is Federal Employees Day of Action

    Washington politicians are at it again. If they don’t find a way to avoid the “fiscal cliff” by year’s end, federal workers could see devastating cuts to their pay, retirement, health care and jobs. Congress may have created this problem, but it is up to you to fix it. On Federal Employee Day of Action

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  • iMail , News December 18, 2012

    Grand Lodge Closed for Holidays

    IAM Headquarters will close for the holidays at the close of business Wednesday, December 19, 2012, and re-open Wednesday, January 2, 2013. Best wishes to all for a safe and joyous holiday season.

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  • iMail , News December 18, 2012

    Western Territory Commemorates Human Rights Day

    Western Territory General Vice President Gary Allen Western Territory GVP Gary Allen spoke recently at the Snohomish County Human Rights Commission Event to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. More than 100 human rights activists from around Puget Sound attended the event, including

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