Despite strong Democratic opposition, the House of Representatives voted 248-169 to approve a blatant attack on workers’ rights as part of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization bill. Some 157 Democrats voted against the measure.
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Pressured by CWA’s exhaustive leafleting and lobbying, U.S. House Republicans passed temporary funding to keep the FAA open, but now it’s a senator who’s decided to play politics with the agency.
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With next week’s deadline looming to pass an FAA funding bill or risk having the agency shut down again over Republicans’ anti-union demands, AFA-CWA flight attendants gathered with pilots and air traffic controllers Wednesday to pressure Congress to act before midnight Sept. 16.
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As the Associated Press reports today, “A quarrel between the House and Senate over union organizing by airline and railroad workers could lead to a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration.”
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After a nine-year battle that CWA helped lead, a bill to ensure medical monitoring and treatment of workers exposed to toxins at Ground Zero has passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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CWAers won two big victories in Congress last week. In separate votes, the House of Representatives voted to ban the Reverse Morris Trust tax loophole and to retain a valuable jet engine program that means 2,000 jobs.
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