Special iMail, Monday, May 16, 2005
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Mind Games
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Playing with the American Labor Movement like it was a chess game, dissident union leaders are playing a dangerous game.

Bombs Bursting In Air
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Last week, Senator Hillary Clinton forced the Pentagon to admit that North Korea could place a nuclear warhead on a missile. On May 1, 2005, North Korea test fired a short missile into the Sea of Japan. This Bombs Bursting In Air video was created in May 2001 to educate IAM members about the proposed National Missile Defense System.

In Remembrance of Our Fallen Brothers and Sisters
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Family and friends gathered on April 28th at the William W. Winpisinger Center to remember those who lost their lives in the workplace.

Protect Social Security Don't Privatize It
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Thousands rallied on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 26th to stop President Bush's scheme to privatize the most successful program in our nation's history...social security.

Family Leave in the Crosshairs
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Mary McHugh from the IAM's Legal Department, talks about the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Department of Labor's proposed changes to the law.



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Join the Pension Fight – Tell Congress to Act Now!

A bankruptcy judge in Chicago approved a backroom deal last week allowing United Airlines to abandon its pension obligations, but the battle to save pension benefits for U.S. airline workers is far from over. And it’s a fight that threatens to affect every American worker with any type of retirement plan.

Airline executives are moving full speed ahead with a nation-wide campaign to dump their pension commitments on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), a small federal agency that was never designed to survive such an assault.

The impact of multiple pension terminations – first at the airlines and then across America – is designed to make all pension plans radioactive while corporations pocket billions in pension benefits that rightfully belong to U.S. workers and their families.

The IAM is on the front line of this fight, battling in court, in the streets and in Washington, D.C., to halt this far-reaching corporate campaign that will make the scandals at Enron and Tyco look small by comparison.

But we can’t do it alone.

IAM members should immediately contact their elected representatives and urge them to support HR 2327. This emergency legislation, introduced by Rep. George Miller (D-CA) and Rep. Jan Shakowsky (D-IL), would impose a six-month moratorium on pension plan terminations, including the recent abomination at United Airlines.

The legislation would also provide union representatives with time to bargain on behalf of their members and give lawmakers an opportunity to protect taxpayers from the consequences of a Savings & Loan-type disaster at the PBGC.

Don’t let greedy corporate executives get their hands on America’s pensions.

Take action NOW!

It’s YOUR retirement that’s at stake.


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China Dolls
Behind China's economic miracle is a stark reality of oppressive working conditions for millions of Chinese women and men.


IAM Election Report IAM members in the United States and Canada have reelected national leaders to four-year terms commencing July 1, 2005.


Break out the camera and take it to work. It's time for the IAM Photography Contest.

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See who works for you, how the IAM is structured, and what services the IAM offers. Go to: IAM2005


With proposals based on labor’s strengths rather than weaknesses, the IAM has unveiled a seven-point strategy to help guide the debate over reform at the AFL-CIO. Take a look.


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