Wednesday, September 5, 2012
After the jump, Labor Day speeches from Raúl Grijalva, Ron Barber and Richard Elías. I was unable to record speeches from Richard Fimbres and Richard Carmona.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
After the jump, Labor Day comments from… James Watson of International Association and Machinists Local 933 Sereena Hogan, National Vice President of the Spouse’s Auxilary of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen Moisés Paiewonsky of American Federation of Musicians Local 33 Roy Zarow of the Motion Picture and Studio Mechanics (IATSE) Local 485 Connie [...]
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Hat tip to Talking Points Memo for finding this labor day gem on Eric Cantor’s Twitter feed: Today, we celebrate those who have taken a risk, worked hard, built a business and earned their own success. I guess it’s up to each individual American to find their own meaning in our national holidays, but thinking [...]
I’ve been getting grief from my liberal friends about Lech Wałęsa’s endorsement of Mitt Romney. Some of this is over what he regards as a personal slight from Barack Obama; some of it is because of Wałęsa’s stongly held social conservatism. Solidarność, the labor movement he once headed, doesn’t share Wałęsa’s enthusiasm for Romney. They [...]
Something I missed this week…and don’t worry, I got Lalo’s permission to put this up.
The White House released its list of who will be awarded the Medal of Freedom this year. Among them is Dolores Huerta. This is from the official citation: Huerta is a civil rights, workers, and women’s advocate. With Cesar Chavez, she co-founded the National Farmworkers Association in 1962, which later became the United Farm Workers [...]
The Pima Area Labor Federation and the National Association of Letter Carriers are going to be at Jon Kyl’s office, 6480 N Oracle Road, at 5:00 PM to oppose S 1789. The bill would end six day mail delivery and phase out home delivery entirely. The NALC has more details about what this legislation would [...]
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
A while back, the state AFL-CIO announced the endorsements of Raúl Grijalva, Ed Pastor and Gabrielle Giffords. Although the Giffords endorsement turned out to be moot, none of the names were surprising. They released another set of federal endorsements today. They endorsed Richard Carmona for the US Senate over Don Bivens. Yep, Carmona is seen [...]
Also filed in 2012 US Senate Race, Congressional District 1, Congressional District 9, New CD 2 (Old CD 8), New CD 3 (Old CD 7)
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Tagged AFL-CIO, Ann Kirkpatrick, Don Bivens, Ed Pastor, Gabrielle Giffords, Kyrsten Sinema, Raul Grijalva, Richard Carmona, Rose Mofford, United Steel Workers, Wenona Benally
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Friday, February 17, 2012
I didn’t have a chance to follow the hearings on the anti-labor bills yesterday, but one actuality they played on KUAZ amused me. It was from Sen. Ron Gould, who claimed that the bills are actually not anti-union. Yes, because Arizona Republicans would never do anything against organized labor. Anyhow, the Pima Area Labor Federation [...]
