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  • iMail , News March 12, 2013

    Machinists Mobilize to Repeal TSA Blunder

    The IAM has launched a campaign to repeal the recent decision by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) to allow knives and other dangerous objects aboard aircraft. Representatives Eric Swalwell, Michael Grimm and Bennie Thompson authored a letter to TSA Director John Pistole demanding the agency reverse course on its dangerous move to allow knives aboard

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  • iMail , News March 12, 2013

    IAM Mourns Former District 751 President Bill Johnson

    Bill Johnson Bill Johnson, the former union president who led Machinists Union District Lodge 751 from 1992 through 2000 has died at his home in Seattle after a fight with cancer. He was 69. As president, Johnson established programs that are important parts of the union today, including the Work Transfer Committees that make the

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  • iMail , News March 12, 2013

    Babineaux Attends International Women’s Day Rally

    IAM Chief of Staff to the International President Diane Babineaux (pictured here in the orange jacket) represented labor unions and union members at the International Women’s Day Rally on March 8 in New York City. IAM Chief of Staff to the International President Diane Babineaux, who also heads the IAM’s Women’s and Human Rights Departments,

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  • iMail , News March 12, 2013

    U.S. Air Force Backs Brazil over Beechcraft

    The IAM is protesting a U.S. Air Force contract awarded to Brazilian-based Embraer over Wichita, KS-based Beechcraft Corp. The deal, which is for the production and delivery of 20 Light Air Support aircraft to the Afghan Air Force, is worth $427.5 million and threatens 1,400 American jobs. “We should be very concerned whenever U.S. taxpayer

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  • iMail , News March 7, 2013

    District 751 Members Ratify New Contract at Hytek

    Members of IAM District Lodge 751 in Seattle, WA working for Hytek Finishes voted to accept a revised contract offer after rejecting a previous offer and voting to authorize a strike. The vote caps a 17-month effort by Hytek employees to win IAM representation and a first contract. The new contract provides wage increases each

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