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  • iMail , News April 17, 2012

    April 17 is ‘Equal Pay Day’

    April 17 is Equal Pay Day, a ‘holiday’ originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 to boost public awareness of the gap between men’s and women’s wages. And here’s why: It’s taken until today, April 17, 2012, for women to earn the same wages men had earned by the end of

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  • iMail , News April 17, 2012

    Machinists President at NAN Convention in Washington D.C.

    Collective bargaining rights are an essential means to securing the economic equality that has been an elusive goal of the civil rights movement for decades. That was the message from IAM President Tom Buffenbarger and a panel of labor leaders at the 14th Annual National Convention of the National Action Network (NAN) in Washington D.C.

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  • iMail , News April 17, 2012

    Senate Bill Would Overhaul NLRB Voting Rules

    A bill to undo a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule ensuring workers can freely and fairly exercise their right to join a union is headed for a vote in the Senate this week. In December, the NLRB issued new rules that would make union representation elections fairer by simplifying procedures, deferring litigation and setting

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  • iMail , News April 17, 2012

    IAM Urges San Francisco to Buy ‘American-Made’ Trains

    In a letter to San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors, IAM President Tom Buffenbarger responded to reports that BART is considering a firm that outsources work to Mexico and China for a $3 billion contract to build 775 passenger cars. “These media reports are extremely disturbing to our union, but most

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  • iMail , News April 12, 2012

    Walker Repeals Wisconsin’s Equal Pay Law

    The relentless anti-worker, GOP attacks on working families continues in Wisconsin as Republican lawmakers recently repealed the state’s equal pay law. Governor Scott Walker (R) quietly signed the bill last week. The 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act was put in place to prevent wage discrimination against certain groups, particularly women, by giving workers more ways

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