The preceding are links to press clips courtesy of the AFL-CIO.  This information from the mainstream media is being provided to give you quick access to news and commentary about issues affecting working people.  Keeping informed about worker issues and how labor unions are being viewed in the mainstream media can be of help with our duties as union representatives, because matters affecting others now may affect our members later.  The articles are copyrighted.  In order to reprint, permission must be obtained from the copyright owner.

Union That Endorsed Edwards Will Back Obama	New York Times
Don't leave the jobless out of federal stimulus package (UAW op-ed)	Detroit News
House, Senate at Odds on Stimulus Plans	Associated Press
Free trade with Colombia	Los Angeles Times
Clinton, Obama wooing the USW	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
UAW to fight Chrysler designers' layoff	Detroit News
Unions Aren't the Problem (LTE)	Washington Post
United mechanics to start voting on union	Chicago Sun-Times
Whirlpool to close Tenn., Mexico plants, affecting 1,250 workers	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

 

 

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