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  • iMail , News May 31, 2012

    Terry Melvin Elected to Lead CBTU

    The IAM delegation to the CBTU’s 41st Annual Convention in St. Louis, MO included representatives from the United States and Canada. By a unanimous vote, delegates at the 41st annual convention of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) elected Terrence (Terry) L. Melvin to succeed Bill Lucy as president of the one of North

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  • iMail , News May 31, 2012

    GDA Hosting Online Auction through June 6

    The online portion of the Guide Dogs of America (GDA) Open House Silent Auction is now open. The auction will run to June 6, 2012, with the live event taking place on June 9, 2012. “One of the main attractions of the GDA Open House has always been our exciting Silent Auction, where we offer

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  • iMail , News May 29, 2012

    IAM Welcomes Members Serving Arctic Circle

    Aircraft maintenance workers employed at Keewatin Air in Winnipeg, MB, are the newest members of the IAM and will join more than 18,000 workers in the Canadian Air Transport Sector. Keewatin Air serves the Canadian Arctic from its main base in Winnipeg with a fleet of Beech 1900 and King Air 200 aircraft. Keewatin Air

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  • iMail , News May 29, 2012

    District 751 Machinists Honored for Safety, Excellence

    Eleven members of District 751 who work for Republic Services in Klickitat County, WA were honored recently by their company for excellence on the job. The 11 were in the first group to be given Republic’s “Dedicated to Excellence” award, which recognizes that the workers met Republic’s high standards for safety, while also excelling in

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  • iMail , News May 29, 2012

    Labor Hall of Fame Adds Deceased 9/11 Union Members

    The more than 600 union members who perished on September 11, 2001 as a result of the terrorists’ attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania were inducted collectively into Labor’s International Hall of Fame at the 2012 induction ceremony held recently at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC. “We are extremely proud to be able

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