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  • iMail , News September 10, 2013

    IAM Retiree Re-Elected to Democratic Seniors Position

    Maria Cordone The IAM is excited to announce that Maria Cordone, retired Director of the Retirees, Community and Membership Services Department, has been re-elected as the Executive Vice Chair to the National Democratic Committee – Seniors Coordinating Council (DNC-SCC). Cordone will serve a four-year term and is very excited about this endeavor. She has worked

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  • iMail , News September 10, 2013

    Flight Attendants Raise Money for Flight 93 Memorial

    The Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, PA commemorates the 40 crewmembers and passengers who died while preventing a terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol on September 11, 2001. (National Park Service) On the eve of the 12th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, IAM-represented Flight Attendants joined the Flight Attendant Union Coalition to

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  • iMail , News September 9, 2013

    Fight for Workers’ Pensions Hitting High Gear

    The first salvos in the battle for workers’ pensions have been fired, and the war could be coming to the U.S. Congress this month. Detroit is trying to saddle the city’s bankruptcy on the backs of its 21,000 retirees by slashing their pensions. The Mayor of Chicago, where the costs of public pensions are merely

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  • iMail , News September 5, 2013

    IAM Mourns Retiree and 1959 Plane Crash Survivor Phil Bradley

    Former IAM member Phil Bradley at a monument marking the site of an historic plane crash in 1959. Bradley was the sole survivor of the crash and erected the monument at his own expense. Retired IAM Organizer and sole survivor of the historic Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crash of 1959, Phil Bradley, died August 23,

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  • iMail , News September 5, 2013

    Fort Worth Machinists Raise Over $15,000 for Guide Dogs

    Former IAM Local Lodge 2003 Educator Teresa Blevins, who lost her sight in 2009, is one of many to receive a trained guide dog from GDA. IAM District Lodge 776 in Fort Worth, TX hit the links recently to raise over $15,000 for the Guide Dogs of America (GDA). The IAM teamed up with the

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