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Lawmakers, Union Call for $40 Million to be Restored to MTA Budget

Lawmakers, Union Call for $40 Million to be Restored to MTA Budget Published 26 Mar, 2014 By Tanique Williams Read the article Elected officials stood in solidarity on Tuesday with the Transport Workers Union Local 100 chapter — representing 38,000 active transportation workers and about 26,000 retirees — to demand a restoration of funds to…

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Lombardo Expresses Support for IAM’s Effort to Be Free to Strike

Published 18 Mar, 2014 NEWS RELEASE March 18, 2014
 For Immediate Release Contact: Jamie Horwitz – 202-549-4921, jhdcpr@starpower.net Roger Kerson – 734-645-0535, Roger.kerson@gmail.com Attention aviation, business, labor, Tulsa, Charlotte and Dallas-based reporters and editors The Transport Workers Union’s Lombardo Expresses Full Support for Machinists Union’s Effort to be Free to Strike American Airlines Washington —…

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TWU Launches Campaign to Crush Anti-Labor Bills in PA

Published 18 Mar, 2014 Out-of-state corporate interests and their allies are going state by state to weaken the middle class by singling out unions and denying our voice on the job. House Bill 1507 and Senate Bill 1034 would prohibit workers from negotiating payroll deductions and silence the voices of middle class Pennsylvanians. The TWU…

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General Secretary of the UK’s RMT and Longtime TWU Ally Dies

Published 11 Mar, 2014 Bob Crow, the fighting leader of the United Kingdom’s National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), died unexpectedly early on Tuesday morning at the age of 52. This tragedy comes just weeks after Crow led Tube workers in a successful two-day strike over the London Underground’s plan to cut…

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