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IAM Featured on Wheel of Fortune
TRCP Union Sportsmen's Alliance
Employee Free Choice Act
IAM Featured on
Wheel of Fortune
To showcase the pride and skill of Machinists union
members, the IAM is sharing sponsorship of Wheel of Fortune TV
episodes later this year. Not only will contestants compete to win some
products manufactured by IAM members, but up to 47 million viewers per
week will learn about the Machinists union through a series of
commercials that will air periodically.
Look for IAM spots and products on shows aired between April 23 and May
18 and then again from August 27 through September 7 (including Labor
Day).
"We want America to know about the Machinists union and the products our
members proudly manufacture," said IP Tom Buffenbarger. "As the
number-one syndicated show in America, Wheel of Fortune is a
great way to get our message out about the Machinists union and the
benefits of union membership."
TRCP's Union Sportsmen's Alliance
The goal of the USA is to create an outdoor hunting and
fishing club exclusively for union members and their families with the
purpose of actively engaging union sportsmen and women in the ongoing
fight to create a better future for hunting and fishing while helping to
create their own outdoor community that will extend union member
benefits beyond the workplace, into the woods and onto the water. Check
out these websites:
At 8:30 Eastern on Friday evenings and again at 10:30 am
Sundays you can join us on the VERSUS network (formerly OLN) for Escape
to the Wild, a new show dedicated to taking American workers on dream
sporting adventures.
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America's Union Members
America's 16.1 million union members include a wider range of people
than ever before. They work in hospitals and nursing homes, schools,
auto assembly plants. They work on construction sites, trains, buses,
and air planes. They are doctors, nurses, poultry workers, graduate
employees, home health care aides, wireless communication workers,
engineers, security guards, musicians, electricians, high-tech workers,
machinists, teachers, postal workers, janitors and many more.
Union membership is important to all of these people, helping them to
gain decent wages and working conditions and being able to have a voice
in their jobs.
Good union jobs mean stronger communities. Union workers earn 25% more
than nonunion workers and are more likely to receive health care and
pension benefits than those without a union. Unions lead the fight today
for better lives for working people.
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Tax Dollars Fund Wal-Mart
Empire
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, used more than $1 billion in
taxpayer money to build its stores and warehouses, according to a study
by Good Jobs First, a non-profit research group.
"Shopping for Subsides: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer money to Finance it's
Never Ending Growth" examines Wal-Mart's shameless use of taxpayer
dollars to build their empire, as well as the company's tendency to
create poverty-wage jobs and kill good jobs elsewhere.
The report was the first study to highlight deals made by state and
local officials that subsidize Wal-Mart through property tax abatements
and sales tax rebates.
Good Jobs First found that since the early 1980's taxpayers have helped
fund 84 Wal-Mart distribution centers at an average subsidy of $7.4
million. Additionally, 160 Wal-Mart retail stores received an average
subsidy of $2.8 million
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