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  • iMail , News January 11, 2011

    Passport Reminder for 2011 IAM National Staff Conference

    IAM representatives in the United States should make sure they have a current and valid U.S. passport if they are planning to attend the 2011 IAM National Staff Conference set for June 12 – 17 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Passports are now required for travel between the U.S. and Canada. Passport applications are processed by

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  • iMail , News January 6, 2011

    Continental Flight Attendants to Vote on New Contract

    The IAM announced it reached a 20-month tentative interim agreement with Continental Airlines for a new contract covering the carrier’s 9,500 Flight Attendants. The agreement includes a critical no-furlough clause to protect IAM-represented Continental Flight Attendants throughout the life of the agreement. The tentative interim agreement contains a 2.5 percent base wage increase retroactive to

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  • iMail , News January 6, 2011

    In Their Own Words

    As part of the effort to bring attention to the desperate plight of millions of unemployed Americans, the IAM community service project known as UCubed has compiled dozens of stories about what it’s like to struggle as a casualty of the nation’s worst economic catastrophe in more than 80 years. Click here to read from

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  • iMail , News January 6, 2011

    Plan Now to Attend 2011 Int’l Human Rights Conference

    The IAM will host the 2011 International Human Rights Conference from September 1 – 5 at the Buena Vista Palace in the Walt Disney Resort, Lake Buena Vista, FL. The event will highlight the importance of diversity in the house of labor and will include the concerns of women activists, human rights activists, younger workers

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  • iMail , News January 6, 2011

    Australian Union Calls for IKEA Boycott

    The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), an Australian union representing woodworkers down under, called on holiday shoppers to boycott retail furniture giant IKEA, over the refusal by a U.S. subsidiary to allow its workers to join a union. “It is Scrooge-like at this time of year for IKEA, which makes billions in profits,

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