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As the International Association of Machinists strike against Lockheed Martin nears the end of its third week and strike checks loom, the Texas AFL-CIO received a tour of union headquarters in Fort Worth, where more than 3,600 strikers are running an around-the-clock operation.

Secrecy at the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks could undermine labor rights and even U.S. sovereignty, opponents of the trade talk process, including the Texas AFL-CIO, said as the talks arrived in Texas.

The Texas AFL-CIO joined affiliated unions, allied organizations and the Texas Fair Trade Coalition in highlighting the cloak that has kept the text of the latest proposed multi-nation "free trade" deal a secret -- that is, if you're not a corporate lobbyist given "cleared advisor" status.

It happens every weekend (and many weekdays) in each election cycle: Unions get together to block-walk in support of labor-backed candidates.

The May 5 labor block-walks in the Rio Grande Valley were the largest of their type seen in that part of the state in many years, Texas AFL-CIO Legislative/Political Director René Lara reports.

 

The Texas AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education has approved primary election endorsements in congressional and legislative races, supplementing the statewide endorsements made at the COPE Convention in January.

Meeting at Texas AFL-CIO headquarters, COPE accepted Central Labor Council recommendations for the attached list of candidates. More CLC action may occur before the May 29 primary elections, but the list covers most of the landscape.

Paul Sadler, who received labor’s endorsement at the COPE Convention in January, told the committee that while a prolonged redistricting battle has hampered fundraising, actions like block-walking and phone-banking will be critical to a primary victory and fundraising that will set the stage for the fall campaign.

“This is only March,” Sadler noted. “By November, the world will look completely different.”
 

It’s not much of a shock that lies are popping up in the Republican presidential nomination race. But in Michigan, Mitt Romney is telling one whopper of lie about the UAW, the auto bailout that saved two of the nation’s Big 3 car manufacturers and President Obama. In a nutshell, Romney says Obama should have let Chrysler and GM go bankrupt—that should win him a lot of votes in Michigan today—and Obama instead “gave the companies to the UAW.” Read more >>>

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