An estimated 600 people marched in Oklahoma City on Thursday, May 2nd, to say that ALEC is NOT OK! The Working Family Rally and March for the Middle Class was kicked off by International Association of Fire Fighters General President Harold Schaitberger, who led the crowd from the Coca Cola Event Center, through Bricktown, to…
Category: Politics
ALEC Protest: May 2, 2013 – Bus Trip!
We will be taking a bus to the protest on May 2, 2013, It will be leaving TWU514 Parking lot at 11:00AM and returning at 11:00PM. _ Who Benefits from ALEC? These are just a few such measures: Altria/Philip Morris USA benefits from ALEC’s newest tobacco legislation — an extremely narrow tax break…
Letter to Claire McCaskill From James Little RE: FAA Safety and Security Concerns
March 26, 2013 The Honorable Claire McCaskill 717 Hart Senate Office Building U.S. Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator McCaskill: I am writing you to ask you if the FAA has closed any additional safety and security items noted in their response to you January 11, 2010′. Within that letter to you, the Office of…
Workers compensation battle expected in House
SOURCE The Journal Record OKLAHOMA CITY – Though it cleared the Oklahoma Senate with no amendments, little debate and a big spread of yes votes, the mammoth overhaul of the workers’ compensation system probably won’t be getting the same fast-track reception on the other side of the Capitol. Designed to eliminate the present court-based…
Eric Cantor will propose Federal Law that Ends Overtime Pay for hourly workers
Excerpted and reposted from HERE In Eric Cantor’s February 2013 speech, he said he wanted to propose Federal Law that would end overtime pay for hourly workers. Currently, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, mandates that certain workers get paid “time + 1/2” for overtime…
Legislative Session 2013
Below is a list of some of those bills and their status the Oklahoma AFL-CIO is tracking. The legislature has begun to hit deadlines, starting this week in the Senate. This deadline has left some bills DEAD and will be removed from this list next week. The bills that are have had changes sense the last Legislative Update. House…
Fight for Health Care Action: We could use your help!
We will be meeting on the Parking Lot of closed Homeland Store, 32nd and Harvard (East Side) (Map) Tulsa, OK 74135 Tuesday, February 5th, 9:30 AM Let’s keep the momentum going! Please sign up for this gathering right away! (Click Here) Message from your host, Ginny W.: Two charter buses will take supporters of Medicaid Expansion in…
Statement from James C. Little on Election
Whether you voted democrat, independent, libertarian or republican, America made their voice heard last night. Last night’s victory for the middle class was won because of the power of the people, not the power of money. Hundreds of TWU members around the country tirelessly phone banked and canvassed to get out the vote these past…
Please get out and VOTE….. Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012, is Election Day! If you don’t know when or where to vote, look it up here.
Mitt’s Plan For The American Worker
[youtube_video id=”FrUwns7AM_s”] Mitt Romney may not be clear on his details, but he has made it clear that he will dismantle transportation and move forward anti-union laws. Our new video shows that plan. Across the country Romney and his GOP partners have made it clear in their platform that they will support states and Governors…