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Sito Pantoja Sito Pantoja, IAM General Vice President for Transportation, was elected to serve on the Executive Board of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), during its meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Pantoja will replace IAM General Secretary-Treasurer (GST) Robert Roach Jr., who has served in that position for over 12 years. Pantoja was unanimously supported
Read moreIn an op-ed published on Politico, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka argues “Americans Don’t Want ‘Grand Bargain.’” “What is the grand bargain?” asks Trumka. “It boils down to lower tax rates for rich people — paid for by benefit cuts for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. These are precisely the issues that are being debated so
Read more“Our federal government is rolling the dice with the safety of the travelling public in this country by reducing the number of airport security screeners across Canada,” said Canadian GVP Dave Ritchie. “The lineups at airport security check-ins across the country are already too long because there aren’t enough screeners and to cut that number
Read moreThe Union of Unemployed (UCubed) is not the least bit flattered by a copycat attack ad released by a Republican super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF). The ad targeting Ohio Democrat Betty Sutton borrows heavily from UCubed’s revolutionary social media campaign, BEE MAD @ THE GOP, which has recently gone viral with over two
Read moreNovember 6th is only two weeks away – which means GOP lawmakers, their super PACS, corporate donors and operatives are pulling out every trick in the book to suppress as many Democratic votes as possible. Experts say voters can expect the dirty tactics to only get worse the closer we get to Election Day. “On
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