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Reported by Rebecca Rainey, Ian Kullgren and Diego Areas MunhActing Labor Secretary Julie Su has spent the start of 2024 on the road, stumping on behalf of the Biden administration’s workforce investments and promoting the most “pro-union” president in modern history, just as the presidential race begins to heat up. Already this year, she’s traveled

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Reported by Thomas Black for Bloomberg The US railroad industry trade group pushed back against comments made about rail safety in an unusually forceful letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who spoke with the media and participated in a press conference last week ahead of the one-year anniversary of the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

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Reported by The Energy Mix As a Democratic lawmaker from Georgia tries once more to garner support for a “transformative” four-year, US$80-billion transit bill, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)—and at least one very fed-up union leader—are urging everyone responsible to vote “yes.” The funding in Rep. Hank Johnson’s proposed Stronger Communities Through Better Transit

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Reported by Amudalat Ajasa for The Washington Post Less than a year ago, a disastrous train derailment sent a massive plume of dangerous chemicals billowing over East Palestine, Ohio, startling the town of nearly 5,000 residents and onlookers nationwide. Now, a new report warns that more of these catastrophes may loom: At any given moment, more than

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Reported by American Workforce Podcast President of the Transportation Trades Department, Greg Regan, joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast to talk about the first anniversary of the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and what political leaders are doing to create change in the industry. Regan also talked about a letter outlining concerns about

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