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  • iMail , News July 16, 2015

    Winpisinger Center Spanish Leadership Working Group Expands

    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 The Spanish Leadership Working Group

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  • iMail , News July 16, 2015

    IAM Long Beach, CA City Employees Rally for New Contract

    IAM Western Territory General Vice President Gary Allen, center, and Special Representative Richard Suarez, left, lead a group of IAM-represented Long Beach, CA city employees at a rally for a new contract. Long Beach City employees staged a rally and a march to City Hall to demand a fair contract from the City of Long

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  • iMail , News July 16, 2015

    IAM Members Ratify New Agreement with General Electric

    Members of the Coordinated Bargaining Committee, a coalition of 11 unions at GE, discuss the new collective bargaining agreement with the company. Workers at General Electric have ratified a new four year collective bargaining agreement that includes more than 1,400 IAM members at several locations throughout the country. With the new contract, the defined benefit

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  • iMail , News July 14, 2015

    Two Organizing Wins for Chicagoland Local 701

    IAM Mechanics Local 701 recently organized 19 truck mechanics and 12 automotive mechanics in two separate Chicagoland campaigns. The new IAM truck mechanics are employed by the Rush Truck Center in Carol Stream, IL. The company has more than 100 locations coast-to-coast and offers sales and service at most of its centers. “Local 701 has

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  • iMail , News July 14, 2015

    Tell Congress to Keep Its Pension Promises

    Retired union members came to Capitol Hill recently to support the introduction of the Keep Our Pension Promises Act, a bill that would restore anti-cutback provisions for current retirees. Congress snuck a cruel provision into last year’s must-pass spending bill, allowing troubled multiemployer pension plans to cut already-earned benefits for current retirees, many of whom

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