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DAILY RECAP: 2014 Legislative and COPE Conference – DAY 1
The TWU’s push in the first full day of the 2014 Legislative and COPE Conference was to educate and train TWU members to be effective lobbyists on Capitol Hill and back in their home districts. Members heard from Ed Wytkind, President of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department, Representative Brad Schneider (D-IL), and Global Trade Watch Executive Director Lori Wallach.…
514 – What’s on the plate
New Overtime Guidelines TWU 514 leaders met and reviewed the new language Meeting with AA Today for clarification Workers Compensation Law The legislation revolves around three parts: the Administrative Compensation Act, the Oklahoma Benefit Act — which includes the opt-out provision — and the Arbitration Act. Starting on February 1, an administrative process with three appointed commissioners…
Legislative Update: April 13, 2012
House Bill 2155 by Steele creates the “Oklahoma Employee Injury Benefit Act.” This bill allows corporations with excessive claims to opt-out of workers’ compensation, which would drive up costs for corporations that do not have that option. We oppose this bill. It was voted from committee on 4-3-12 and will most likely be heard on 4-17-12. Click here to view a comparison of…
TWU 2011 Cope Conference
We are in a fight for the soul of our workplaces and our democracy, Wisconsin State Senator Mark Miller told the TWU COPE Legislative Conference in a video address that began the third day of the conference on April 6. “As we organize together side by side to take back our democracy and to take…
Taking Charge and Staying Connected
by Tracy Hardin I had the honor of attending the 2010 TWU, AFL-CIO COPE LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE and that is the challenge that greeted me when I walked in the conference center. “Take Charge of Political Change: Stay Connected” As a Transport Worker we have a tendency to forget that issues complicate my job, my livelihood,…