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  • iMail , News November 29, 2012

    Klima, Hannah Named to Key Transportation Department Posts

    Tim Klima IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger today announced the appointment of Grand Lodge Representative Tim Klima as an additional Airline Coordinator for the 100,000 plus member Transportation Department. A 32 year IAM veteran and former Northwest Airlines employee, Klima will join Airline Coordinator Tom Brickner and be responsible for the department’s collective bargaining, organizing

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  • iMail , News November 29, 2012

    Bangladesh Factory Fire Recalls Triangle Tragedy

    The IAM is joining with unions around the world calling attention to deadly working conditions at a garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, where more than 100 workers were killed in a fire reminiscent of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. The fire at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory started in a

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  • iMail , News November 27, 2012

    Tell Congress: No ‘Grand Bargain’ Sellout

    Congress has until the end of the year to strike a deal avoiding across-the-board, mandatory spending cuts known as “sequestration” and a series of expiring tax measures, including the middle-class payroll tax cut and extended unemployment insurance benefits. The so-called “fiscal cliff” threatens to prolong the Great Recession if Congress refuses to act. Trillion dollar

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  • iMail , News November 27, 2012

    Plan to Attend Historic MLK Observance in Philadelphia

    The 2013 AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Observance will take place January 17-21 in Philadelphia, PA and will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington. The Observance will also coincide with the inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2013.

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  • iMail , News November 27, 2012

    District 141 Pioneers Spanish Language HazMat Program

    from left) David Otoya (Local 811), Victoria Schoening (Local 1731), Victor Acosta (Local 914), Suzette Fleischmann (Facilitator), Alberto Herrera (Local 1759), Teri McClendon (IAM CREST, Staff) A quartet of IAM CREST Associate Instructors from IAM District 141 recently took part in a Spanish Development Workshop designed to ensure that Spanish-speaking members will have the same

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