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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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  • Eastern , iMail , News April 28, 2016

    Sullivan, Sizemore Join Eastern Territory Staff

    Dave Sullivan Doug Sizemore IAM District 4 Directing Business Representative Dave Sullivan and former Eastern Territory Education Representative Doug Sizemore have been appointed Special Representatives in the IAM’s Eastern Territory. Sullivan, a 28-year IAM member, initially joined the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (IUMSWA) when he began working as a shipbuilder

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  • Eastern , iMail , News April 21, 2016

    ‘The Human Face of Outsourcing’: An IAM Members’ Daughter Tells Her Father’s Story

    Former Henrietta, NY IAM Local 2312 President Pete Thomas will be retiring with a union pension when Getinge outsources its factory jobs to Poland, but he sees his younger coworkers scrambling to find decent jobs as a result. A recent editorial about her father by Maria Thomas-Fisher in the (Rochester, NY) Democrat & Chronicle provides

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  • Eastern , iMail , News April 19, 2016

    IAM GVP Conigliaro Addresses Rally to Save Pensions

    On Capitol Hill, IAM General Vice President Jim Conigliaro pledged the IAM’s ongoing support to pass the Keep Our Pensions Promises Act (S.1631), a bill that would protect the pensions of current retirees. IAM General Vice President Jim Conigliaro, along with many members of Congress and labor and community leaders, spoke on the steps of

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  • Eastern , iMail , News April 14, 2016

    Ohio Machinist Stands Up for U.S. Steel Industry Workers at Trade Hearing

    IAM Local 1943 President and Directing Business Representative Neil Douglas testifies at a U.S. International Trade Commission hearing on overcapacity in the steel industry and the effect foreign steel dumping has on American steel industry workers. Unfair trade practices that allow cheap foreign steel to flood U.S. markets are having a devastating effect on U.S.

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