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  • iMail , News May 5, 2016

    Wisconsin Local 1260 Celebrates 50-Year Members

    IAM Local 1260 of New Holstein, WI, honored 85 men and women celebrating more than 50 years as members of the IAM.  Members had an enjoyable evening reconnecting with past co-workers, as IAM Midwest Territory General Vice President Philip J. Gruber, along with District 10 Directing Business Representative Alex Hoekstra, awarded each of the 26

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  • Eastern , iMail , News May 5, 2016

    ‘A Labor of Love’: Massachusetts Machinist’s Non-Profit Helps Hundreds of Children

    IAM Local 447 member Ray O’Brien founded Children are Angels from Heaven, a non-profit which collects donations and supplies to help impoverished orphans and children in India. For IAM Local 447 member Ray O’Brien, what started as a simple wish to improve one child’s life has grown into a community effort and a non-profit organization

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  • iMail , News May 5, 2016

    Protect American Jobs by Avoiding Nabisco’s Mexican-Made Snacks

    Nabisco is moving some cookie and snack production, along with 600 union jobs, from Chicago to Mexico, and the workers there want you to make sure you aren’t buying Nabisco munchies that weren’t made by American workers. The AFL-CIO has endorsed the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union (BCTGM) boycott of only the

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  • Latest Videos , News May 5, 2016

    SkillsUSA Illinois

    IAMAW’s Mechanics Local 701 hosted the Automotive Service Technology competition at the 2016 SkillsUSA event in Springfield, Illinois. Members volunteered their time to help high school and vocational students. The SkillsUSA Championships are competitive events showcasing the best career and technical education students in the nation. Contests begin locally and continue through the state and

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  • News May 3, 2016

    Remembering Fallen Workers

    The IAM recently held its annual Workers Memorial ceremony Maryland. This year labor leaders laid almost a dozen bricks, each honoring individual Machinist Union members who died on the job.

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