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Next week, we’ll launch a comment feature at AFL-CIO Now that will enable you to post comments and share discussions. In the meantime, here are a few of your recent comments.
Responding to Bush’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, an AFL-CIO Now visitor writes:
How is it we can discuss issues affecting the American working family and yet have forgotten our family effected by Katrina as the government obviously had. State of the Union and not even a mention. This is not the same America I once knew. I’m ashamed of what we are doing to each other. The Bush regime is not what America is about so let’s start really speaking up for the true Americans the middle class and below. Remember we are the heart and strength of America.
Diane Grassi in Nevada sends us a link to a Jan. 24 one-year retrospective article on the Sago Mine disaster in which 12 coal miners were killed.
Grassi finds the article provides:
In-depth analysis and research and offers a comprehensive overview of new legislation passed in 2006 and where industry currently stands.
Link here.
Tim Petty, local chairman of the Maintenance of Way Employes/Teamsters (BMWED/IBT) Lodge 0469 responds to a recent AFL-CIO Now post, Unions Fighting for Railroad Safety.
I have worked in the railroad industry (track maintenance) since 1971 and the railroads still don’t get it.
I am the local chairman of the BMWED-IBT local in this area. I am also part of a so-called labor management group (mostly a dog and pony show) where we try to bring safety issues to management.
Two recent incidents really stick out as management “dropping the ball” (as they like to call it). We recently had a track foreman recognize and report a “hot box” (over heated wheel journal) which if left undetected could have caused a major derailment with who knows what kind of results. We recommended that a hot box detector be installed where freight traffic comes on to our property to head off potential problems. We were told it was not going to happen. No reason why. Hot box detectors have been around for at least 30 years so I can’t imagine it being a financial hardship.
Anyway I have more stories to tell if you’d like to hear them. Thank you for your time and fight the good fight. No justice—no peace!
From Kentucky, John Blickenstaff, IBT Local 651 political action committee chairman, a link to his blog where he notes U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ recent comments that “not every citizen has the right to habeas.” As Blickenstaff writes:
This is ridiculous!
Link here.
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