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  • News April 10, 2006

    Special Representative Anne E. Walsh

    Anne Walsh was appointed as a Special Representative assigned to the IAM Organizing Department in March 2006.

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  • News April 7, 2006

    Satellite Voting Urged for New Orleans’ Evacuees

    April 6, 2006 – A coalition of civil rights groups is calling for satellite voting locations to be established in states that continue to house evacuees displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The evacuation and destruction of poor and predominantly black neighborhoods in New Orleans is leading to concern that many African Americans will be unable to

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  • News April 7, 2006

    Take Action NOW! to Protect Seniors

    April 6, 2006 – The GOP’s Medicare Part D Prescription Drug plan has been a disaster since it took effect on January 1. In its first weeks alone, six million poor, elderly and disabled patients were denied prescription drug coverage. More than 20 states were forced to provide emergency coverage to their low-income seniors. Five

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  • iMail , News April 6, 2006

    iMail For Thursday, April 6, 2006

    Rich Rewards in Bush Tax Cuts With the federal deficit soaring into record territory and individual states struggling to provide basic services, its small comfort to learn that individuals with incomes of more than $10 million saw their annual investment tax bill cut by an average of $500,000 while their total annual savings under the

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  • News April 5, 2006

    Unions File for Election at Reynolds Tobacco

    April 4, 2006 – A unique alliance of two major unions is calling on the Reynolds American Tobacco Co. in Winston-Salem, NC to grant union recognition and begin bargaining for a contract covering more than 2,000 production and maintenance workers there. The United Tobacco Alliance for a Voice and Freedom (UTA), a joint effort by

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