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In Face of Right Wing Assault, TWU Helps Stop Worker Gag Bill in Florida

Workers’ Rights are Human Rights activists in the Sunshine State defeated the most outrageous of the avalanche of anti-union bills pressed by Republican state legislators, SB 830, a Worker Gag law championed by Jeb Bush operative John Thrasher, which would have prohibited union dues money from being used for political purposes without similarly limiting corporate…

TWU Ohio Referendum Drive Surges

On Saturday, May 7, Columbus TWU members hit the streets, setting up shop outside TWU Local 208, where they gathered 250 more signatures to get a referendum on the ballot to VOTE NO on the anti-collective bargaining bill SB 5, and registered 7 more voters.  Akron TWU members are planning to duplicate the same success.…

Pennsylvania TWU fights for Jobs, Transit, Education

[youtube YMLEs30EpV0] Scores of TWU members from Pennsylvania joined the noontime rally in Harrisburg, including two busloads of Local 234 members from Philadelphia joined by many other TWU activists who travelled to Harrisburg on their own to hook up with the TWU contingent, wearing Workers Rights are Human Rights t-shirts and carrying signs and banners.…

Threat to Blacks in the Public Sector

By Lee Saunders Reprinted from The Root Posted May 3, 2011 When I was growing up in Cleveland, some of the most respected people in my neighborhood were the folks who worked for the city, county or state. My father was a city bus driver who took great pride in getting people safely to and from…

FAA Safety Team | Safer Skies Through Education

FAASTeam Maintenance Safety Tip May 2011   Working to Your Limit   14 CFR Part 121.377 — Maintenance and preventive maintenance personnel duty time limitations, says:   Within the United States, each certificate holder (or person performing maintenance or preventive maintenance functions for it) shall relieve each person performing maintenance or preventive maintenance from duty…

SEC sues Fla. man over billion-dollar stock offers

Synopsis of story: A Florida man who made mysterious billion-dollar offers for all stock in Eastman Kodak Co. and the parent of American Airlines has no assets to make the purchases, is on probation from past fraud convictions and is barred from serving as a corporate officer, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit.…