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  • iMail , News April 29, 2010

    Apply Now for Union Summer Program

    The 10-week internship program gives college juniors, seniors and recent graduates experience in organizing, community activism and coalition building. This year, Union Summer for Jobs participants will work with the AFL-CIO Good Jobs Now campaign in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New York. They may help organize marches and rallies, talk with workers

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  • iMail , News April 29, 2010

    Machinists Expand in Alberta, Canada

    Forty maintenance employees at the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Limited, are the newest members of the IAM in Canada. “The company fought this certification but in the end, the Alberta Labour Board sided with the Machinists,” said District 14 Directing Business Representative Rick Arsenault. “Unlike most organizing campaigns, this one was not about money. We

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  • iMail , News April 27, 2010

    Machinists in Houston Rally for Space Program Jobs

        More than 700 Machinists gathered in Houston this week for a rally to urge supporters of the U.S. manned space program to send a message that could be heard all the way back in Washington, D.C. Click here to view ‘Houston, We Have a Message,’ an IAM video about the rally. “It’s time

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  • iMail , News April 27, 2010

    Workers’ Memorial Day Honors Victims

    The 11 workers missing and presumed dead after an explosion and fire on an oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico are just the latest to perish in a string of workplace tragedies that are giving added weight to this year’s Workers’ Memorial Day events on April 28. Earlier this month, 29 miners were

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  • iMail , News April 27, 2010

    Delta, Northwest Workers Urged to Reject Intimidation

    In a letter mailed to workers at Delta and Northwest Airlines, Transportation GVP Robert Roach, Jr. described the reports of harassment and intimidation by Delta managers during the recent round of organizing visits in Atlanta, Minneapolis, Detroit and other cities. “A surprising number of Delta workers told us of how they supported the IAM campaign,

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