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You still have time to apply for a 2013 Union Plus Scholarship. The deadline for applications is January 31. This year’s application is entirely online. Scholarships are from $500 to $4,000 and do not require repayment. Since 1992, some 2,200 families have benefited from the Union Plus Scholarship Program, which has awarded union members and
Read moreWhile 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
Read moreTaylor Wheeler, WUW area manager accepts a symbolic check representing 2013 donations raised by the AFS/IAM team. Pictured from the left are: Sonny Moore, AFS; Lowell Green, general manager, AFS; Heather Helms, AFS; Taylor Wheeler, WUW area manager; Rob Fittro, AFS/IAM WUW co-chair; Tony Barnes, president, IAM Local 2003; Madison Cox, AFS/IAM WUW campaign co-chair;
Read moreFrank Larkin International President Tom Buffenbarger has tapped Communications Representative Frank Larkin to take the helm at the IAM Communications Department upon the retirement of current Communications Director Rick Sloan. The appointment is effective January 1, 2013. A 37-year IAM member who initiated as a United Airlines Ramp Serviceman in 1975, Larkin served in numerous
Read moreIAM 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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