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  • iMail , News June 7, 2012

    Canada District 140 Expands at Vancouver Airport

    Passenger Agents and Special Services employed by Airport Terminal Services (ATS) at Vancouver International Airport are now members of District 140, Local 16 in Richmond, BC. The new members provide passenger check-in services for US Airways and Virgin Airlines and other non-scheduled airlines as well as Special Services for those passengers requiring wheel chair assistance.

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  • iMail , News June 7, 2012

    Wisconsin Recall: The Color of Money

    Americans woke up this week to the first major impact of last year’s Citizens United Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited independent campaign spending by corporations and wealthy individuals. In Wisconsin, Republican Gov. Scott Walker survived a recall election on the back of a $31 million campaign war chest that was beefed with more than $20

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  • iMail , News June 7, 2012

    Machinists Deliver Demands to Lockheed Martin HQ

    Members of District 776 on strike against Lockheed Martin were joined by staff and students from the William Winpisinger Center and members of the Seafarers International Union for an early morning protest this week in front of Lockheed’s corporate headquarters in Bethesda, MD. IAM members and supporters returned to Lockheed Martin Corp. headquarters in Bethesda,

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  • iMail , News June 5, 2012

    Kaiser Family Foundation Poll Examines ‘War on Women’

    A new poll from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found that American women increasingly believe there is a “war against women” underway in the United States. According to KFF poll, three in ten women believe there is a wide-scale effort to limit women’s reproductive health choices and services. That war is being led by

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  • iMail , News June 5, 2012

    GOP Leaders Propose Cutting Federal Worker Pensions

    House and Senate Republican leadership penned a letter to President Obama offering their proposals to prevent student loan interest rates from increasing. Their plan for funding the extension? Dipping into federal workers’ retirement savings. Signed by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Eric Canter (R-VA), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Senate Republican

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