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  • iMail , News July 21, 2015

    IAM Wins $1 Million Grant for Hazardous Material Training

    Fourteen new IAM CREST Associate Instructors from Districts 141 and 142 completed a train-the-trainer program on transporting dangerous goods in the airline industry. Approximately 6,300 TCU-IAM airline and railroad workers will receive training in transporting hazardous materials thanks to a nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The grant also includes training

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  • iMail , News July 21, 2015

    Toronto Airport Workers Unite Against Contract Flipping

    Dan Janssen loves his job as a baggage handler at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ). “The best part about my job is my coworkers and friends,” writes Janssen, vice president of IAM Local 2323, in Rank and File, a Canadian labor news website. “There are many positions at the airport and we all play a

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  • iMail , News July 21, 2015

    Why Raising the Minimum Wage Makes Sense for Pretty Much Everyone

    The pervasive stereotype that a minimum wage increase would only help teenagers working part-time jobs is simply not true. A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows us why. Raising the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020 would lift wages for one-quarter of American workers, the report finds. More workers age

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  • iMail , News July 16, 2015

    MD Higher Education Commission Approves IAM / Empire State College Partnership Program

    Today, the Maryland Higher Education Commission formally approved the IAM/Empire State College (ESC) Partnership.  The IAM/Empire State College Partnership allows members to pursue or complete a Baccalaureate Degree through a combination of prior learning, existing college credits, and coursework at the Winpisinger Center. “This announcement represents the culmination of a great deal of work by the staff

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  • iMail , News July 16, 2015

    El Grupo de Facilitadores en el Centro de Educación Winpisinger de Liderazgo en Español se Expande

    Members of the latest Spanish Leadership Working Group Front Row: From left, Paula Cardenas, Adriana Picasso, Geny Ulloa, Anne Wiberg. Second Row: From left, Javier Almazan, Macario Camorlinga, Abby Lau, Calixto Tapia, Danny Arreola. Back Row: From left, Jorge Bonilla, Angel Perez, Cesar Alvarado, Jose Perez, Joel Ochoa, Armando Arreola El grupo de facilitadores de

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