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Targeting unemployed Pennsylvanians, the Union of Unemployed this week began airing ‘Our Turn,’ a hard hitting 30-second ad that urges the jobless to vote on Election Day. To view the ad, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY32IZ9TL0E “With 629,000 unemployed and three times that number suffering through this Grave Recession, the Keystone State mirrors what is happening all
Read moreJuly 9, 2010 is the cutoff date for reduced-rate hotel accommodations for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement’s (LCLAA) 18th National Convention, August 3 – 6, 2010, at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Click here for hotel and registration information. As part of its 37th Celebration, LCLAA will host a
Read moreMay 21 is the deadline to register for the first-ever AFL-CIO Young Workers Summit set for June 10-13 in Washington, D.C. The Summit is part of a major union outreach effort and follows a series of forums organized by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler to hear the concerns and goals of today’s young workers. Workshops and
Read moreFlight Service Specialists play a critical role in ensuring the safety of America’s skies, providing weather, flight and other vital information to civil aviation pilots across the country. Yet, when the Federal Aviation Administration privatized Flight Service in 2005, Specialists were deprived of their early retirement federal pensions – a benefit for which they had
Read moreThe National Mediation Board (NMB) announced this week that it would investigate the IAM’s charges that Delta Air Lines illegally interfered in the representation election for 91 flight simulator technicians. NMB General Counsel Mary Johnson wrote, “After reviewing the submissions provided by Delta and the lAM, I find that because the lAM’s allegations and supporting
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