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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."

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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:

http://www.trcp.org/>     Theordore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership 

http://www.trcp.org/unionsportsmensalliance.aspx  TRCP's Union Sportsmen's Alliance

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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