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  • iMail , News October 23, 2012

    UCubed Campaign Triggers Super PAC Attack Ad

    The 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

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  • iMail , News October 23, 2012

    GOP Intensifies Voter Suppression Campaign

    November 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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  • iMail , News October 18, 2012

    GST Roach Announces New Appointments

    Darryl Holloway General Secretary-Treasurer Robert Roach, Jr., announced the appointments of Darryl Holloway to Assistant Building Facilitator, Lisa Hyde to Pension Administrator and Cecilia Murphy to Assistant Kitchen Supervisor at the William W. Winpisinger Center. “The GST Department is always re-evaluating and exploring new ways to better serve the membership,” said GST Roach. “Collectively, Holloway,

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  • iMail , News October 18, 2012

    Ohio Early Voting Upheld, Registration Deadlines Loom

    In another setback for the GOP and its malicious attempts to suppress the minority, young and elderly vote, the U.S. Supreme Court this week unanimously upheld a lower court’s decision to allow early voting three days before the election in the state of Ohio. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied Ohio Secretary of State Jon

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  • iMail , News October 18, 2012

    IndustriALL Secures Pensions for Workers’ Widows

    As a follow-up to a harrowing video shown to delegates of the 38th IAM Grand Lodge Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, last month about the life-threatening working conditions of shipbreaking workers in India, the newly-formed union federation, IndustriALL, has some promising news to report.  After three years of fighting, the widows and families of six

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