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  • iMail , News July 31, 2012

    President Obama Urged to Join CAT Strikers

    IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger is calling on President Obama to join the picket line outside the Caterpillar facility in Joliet, IL, where IAM members of Local 851 have been on strike since May 1, 2012.  “As a candidate in 2008, President Obama declared he would put on a pair of comfortable shoes and walk

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  • iMail , News July 26, 2012

    Southern Territory Organizes Hospital Nurses in Puerto Rico

    The IAM continues to expand in the Caribbean with another large win for Local 2725 in Puerto Rico. Two hundred and sixty-four Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) at the San Juan Hospital Auxilio Mutuo voted for IAM representation in a run-off election after a March 24 election where the IAM finished in the top two of

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  • iMail , News July 26, 2012

    IAM Targets Bonuses for Senior Hawker Executives

    Calling it a thinly disguised effort to reward top executives at Hawker Beechcraft for achieving “routine, short-term and not particularly challenging” tasks, the IAM this week filed a formal objection to a proposal that would grant up to $5.3 million for the Beechcraft Eight, an octet of senior executives named as beneficiaries of a so-called

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  • iMail , News July 26, 2012

    Machinists at Lewis-McChord Ratify First Contract

    Nearly 350 members of District 751 who work for civilian contractor URS Corp. at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Washington state are looking forward to their first pay raises in three years after approving their first union contract. The three-year accord was ratified with a 76-percent yes vote and will take effect on Aug. 3.

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  • iMail , News July 26, 2012

    Sequestration: A Prescription for 1 Million Layoffs

    In an op-ed published in The Wichita Eagle, IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger, along with Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) President and CEO Marion C. Blakey, called on Congress to pull the plug on pending defense budget cuts. The cuts, known as sequestration, threaten to put one million Americans out of work, shut down U.S. defense

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