MoveAmerica Blog

March 15, 2012

Aviation, General, MoveAmerica Blog

Help TWU Keep American Jobs in America

When someone thinks of ”bankruptcy” a vision of individuals unable to pay every day bills because of job loss or crushing school and medical costs often comes to mind. But there is another side to this process that is simply shameful: multi-billion dollar corporations using bankruptcy to walk away from promises made to their workers.…
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March 12, 2012

Election, General, MoveAmerica Blog

If Mitt Romney is the Answer, What’s the Question?

Together with our 32 member unions, we just looked at a preliminary snapshot of the record of Mitt Romney. The findings unearthed are ugly – that is, if you live among the 99 percent in America. We’re also mining through Santorum’s record (which also isn’t pretty), and we haven’t bothered digging through Newt’s record –…
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March 8, 2012

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Let’s Green-Light Senate Surface Transportation Jobs Bill, Reject Senseless Amendments

Last night news broke of a Senate agreement to finally move on the long-delayed surface transportation funding bill. This is good news – hopefully we have broken through the logjam and have a chance to finally fix and modernize our deteriorating transit and rail systems and roads and bridges, and put people to work. With…
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March 6, 2012

General, MoveAmerica Blog

Welcome to MoveAmerica

Welcome to the launch by the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD) of MoveAmerica – a forum in the blogosphere for the serious issues facing transportation workers. And it couldn’t come at a better time. With Congress currently engaged in debate over surface transportation funding, which is on the verge of being extended for the ninth…
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MoveAmerica Blog

Help TWU Keep American Jobs in America

If Mitt Romney is the Answer, What’s the Question?

Let’s Green-Light Senate Surface Transportation Jobs Bill, Reject Senseless Amendments

Welcome to MoveAmerica