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  • iMail , News January 12, 2010

    Sit-In Heroes Returning to Greensboro

    Three of the four students who faced extraordinary abuse and harassment in 1960 when they sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, will return to the city as guests of honor when the AFL-CIO holds its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Observance. The January 14-18 event, which draws labor and civil

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  • iMail , News January 12, 2010

    Register Now for 2010 Metal Trades Training Program

    The IAM Collective Bargaining Department will hold its “Metal Trades Training Program” May 2-7, 2010 at the William W. Winpisinger Education & Technology Center in Southern Maryland. This Program is being offered to all IAM Locals and Districts affiliated with Metal and Atomic Trades Councils. All potential participants must have prior approval from their District

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  • News January 11, 2010

    Cadillac Flip Flop: Obama Was Against Health Plan Tax Before He Was For It

    In a video that rings so true it hurts, Lee Stranahan–a former Obama supporter–gives us the aspiring president’s own speech.  Only a month before the 2008 election, Obama makes it plain just how bad an idea the “Cadillac” excise tax on health benefits actually is: Click here for the rest of the story.

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  • News January 8, 2010

    Janesville, Wisconsin :: Granta Magazine

    Kevin Corkhill readily admits that he has no idea what to do with the rest of his life. At age fifty he feels disconcertingly adrift, not knowing whether to attempt another career, move to another state, or return to college. He has been unemployed for more than a year, ever since General Motors closed the

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  • iMail , News January 7, 2010

    Jobs Fight at Pratt Gets National Attention

    CBS Evening News this week featured the efforts by IAM and its members to preserve more than 1,000 jobs at a pair of Pratt & Whitney facilities in Connecticut which the aerospace company says are not profitable enough to remain open. The news segment, Fighting Closure in Connecticut, is part of a larger look at

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