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Teamster Myth and Teamster Reality

Published 28 Sep, 2012 
Over the past few days representatives of the Teamsters have been in the press saying that they can protect Tulsa workers against the threat of foreign maintenance and outsourcing of heavy overhaul. With all of these promises you would think that the IBT could point to an agreement in which it actually protected more work…

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TTD Launches Romney Wrecks The Bus

Published 26 Sep, 2012 There are huge differences between where Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama will take this country’s transportation system. With 42 days left until the presidential election, the TTD launched RomneyWrecksTheBus.com.  A site where transit workers and riders can learn how a Romney Administration would ruin essential public transit services through reckless budget…

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Southwest Ground Workers File for Federal Mediation

Published 19 Sep, 2012 M E D I A A D V I S O R Y For Immediate Release: Contact: Jamie Horwitz 202/549-4921jhdcpr@starpower.net Patti Adams 501-519-2743patti.adams@twu555.org Southwest Ground Workers File for Federal Mediation DALLAS –Transport Workers Union Local 555, representing 8,500 Southwest Airlines ramp, operations, provisioning and freight agents, informed Southwest Airlines on September…

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We Remember 9-11

Published 11 Sep, 2012 Eleven years ago today, Americans endured the greatest attack on our liberties and freedom since Pearl Harbor.   Today,  family and friends of those who died at the hands of terrorists  on Sept., 11, 2001 will gather in New York, Pennsylvania and near the Pentagon in memoriam of the tragedies that occurred….

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