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  • iMail , News October 28, 2010

    ‘I AM VOTING,’ a message from Tom Buffenbarger

    How many of your friends, family and neighbors are jobless? How many are working part-time or for lower wages because that’s the only job they could find? And how many citizens of your state have simply stopped looking? Nationally, 31 million Americans have been idled by this Grave Recession. Some have been looking for work

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  • iMail , News October 28, 2010

    CREST Driving Program Wins Top Safety Award

    For the second year in a row, the IAM CREST program at IAM District 15 in New York City is the winner of the National Safety Council’s Defensive Driving Course (DDC) Best Performance Award in New York. The eight-hour course is provided to New York City black car limo drivers. District 15 has had more

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  • iMail , News October 28, 2010

    Ontario Machinists Continue to Grow with OPT

    The IAM has recently added more members with the expansion of Ontario Patient Transfer’s (OPT) newest base in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto. “We’re building on the relationship we developed with OPT since we organized their home base in Hamilton more than a year ago,” explained District 78 Organizer Scott Jackson. “As they continue

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  • iMail , News October 26, 2010

    Voting Begins for Stock & Stores Workers at Delta

    Minneapolis Local 1833 member Krista Freeman is one of 700 Stock & Stores workers at Delta who are eligible to vote ‘YES’ for the IAM in the representation election that began on October 25. More than two years after the merger of Delta and Northwest, and in the midst of record profits for the new

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  • iMail , News October 26, 2010

    Jobless Benefits Set to Expire November 30

    When Congress returns after the midterm elections, representatives will only have one week and a few voting days to extend unemployment benefits for millions of jobless Americans. The federal unemployment program which remains the sole source of income for millions of idled Americans – left jobless through no fault of their own – is scheduled

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