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A deceptive proposition that would increase the ability of business groups and billionaires to buy elections will be on the ballot this November in California. Proposition 32, deceptively known as the “Stop Special Interest Money Now Act,” aims to cripple the ability of unions to participate in politics, but have little or no impact on
Read moreThe AFL-CIO has launched a creative new digital application just in time to reclaim Labor Day as a day to recognize people for their hard work. Via the new online app, participants can send innovative thank you cards through Facebook and email to friends, teachers, bus drivers, firefighters, construction workers, baristas and others whose work
Read moreMembers of Local 733 in Wichita, KS employed at Hawker Beechcraft Corp. (HBC) will have an opportunity to vote this week on a proposal that would prevent termination of their existing defined benefit pension plan. The proposed contract change has the unanimous recommendation of the IAM District 70, Local 733 Bargaining Committee and would require
Read moreMembers of the Local 794 Retirees Club in Albuquerque, NM met recently with the director of the Retirees, Community & Membership Services Department, Charlie Micallef, and the field organizer for the New Mexico Alliance for Retired Americans, Terry Schleder, to kick off their effort to urge fellow retirees to become politically active in the 2012
Read moreRepublican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said in a recent interview that he would eliminate federal funding for Amtrak if he is elected in November. In an interview with CNN’s Fortune Magazine, the presumptive GOP nominee identified the national passenger rail service as a program that would be on the chopping block in a Romney administration.
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