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U.S. lawmakers are rapidly approaching the onset of a “fiscal doomsday” scenario, known as sequestration, which promises, among many other things, to sacrifice more than a million U.S. jobs and hinder military readiness. President Obama is expected to meet with the top four Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and Senate on March 1
Read moreIAM International President Tom Buffenbarger joined fellow members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council in calling on President Obama to immediately nominate a slate of five members to fill all vacant seats on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The move comes on the heels of a recent U.S. Court of Appeals decision that ruled the
Read moreThe fate of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 now rests in the hands of nine U.S. Supreme Court justices, including one who openly expressed contempt for the law. Oral arguments in the Shelby County v. Holder case concluded as what was best described as a “tense and sometimes fractious” process. At
Read moreLocal 851 member and State Representative Larry Walsh, Jr. (D-IL), stands proudly with his family at the inauguration held to swear in the Illinois 98th General Assembly. Walsh has been elected to serve his first full term for the 86th Representative District of Illinois. State Representative Larry Walsh, Jr. has been elected to serve his
Read moreNobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman blasted the looming automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration as “one of the worst policy ideas in our nation’s history” in an op-ed in the New York Times. The across-the-board cuts are set to kick in on March 1 if Congress fails to act. The sequester was part of
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