The Tax Bill is a Bad Deal. Please Call Your Senators. It encourages outsourcing, puts more burden on working Americans, and delivers huge benefits to those needing them the least. The Senate is expected to vote on their tax bill later this week. Public opinion polls show Americans are skeptical.* That’s for good …
Category Archive: Rapid Response
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Apr 25
RAPID RESPONSE
It’s Back: Comp Time Bill Moving in the House Read up on what’s happening, then share your story. The U.S. House could vote in the coming weeks on a bill that would replace our guaranteed overtime pay system with a new “comp time” alternative. The misleadingly-named “Working Families Flexibility Act” (H.R. 1180) is …
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Feb 13
Rapid Response Action Call
A Department for Labor or a Department Against Labor? Weigh in on Andrew Puzder’s nomination for Secretary of Labor by calling your Senators at 877-607-0785. In late July 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression and early months of FDR’s presidency, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins spent time touring steel …
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Dec 03
RAPID RESPONSE ACTION CALL
Your Work is Paying Off Don’t Stop Now! Head to Facebook & Help Save Buy America Your efforts to keep Buy America in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) are helping spark a firestorm in Congress! Thank you to everyone who made a call this week. Rep. Upton needed to hear from …
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Nov 15
TPP VICTORY
This is Your Win. A growing number of Congressional leaders and Administration voices are finally conceding that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will not come up in Congress this year. The votes simply aren’t there. Make no mistake: this win is your win. Eager for a timely headline, some news outlets are doing a …
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Apr 27
Rapid Response Conference
Hello Sisters and Brothers, I am very proud to have been chosen to attend the Rapid Response conference this year.We have been in classes that are teaching us about the things that affect working people all over the United States. This great country that was built by working class people and is …
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Mar 11
Rapid Response
Currency Manipulation Kills Jobs Because different countries have different currencies, the value of those currencies should fluctuate in a manner which is fair for all trading partners. Currency exchange markets are supposed to be self-correcting and balance out as markets shift, ensuring everyone is on a level playing field. However, when countries like China, …
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Jan 04
RAPID RESPONSE INFORMATION
Closing Out 20 Years of Educating, Empowering and Engaging . . . and continuing that legacy in the new year! In 2015, we celebrated twenty years of the best grassroots legislative program in the labor movement. We take pride in how far the program has come in that time. Steelworkers like you are ensuring …
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Nov 07
NO TO TPP
TPP? No Way. After six years of negotiations, we now have access to the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). As we’ve suspected all along, it’s bad. In fact, as our USW news release affirms, “it will be a dagger twisting in the heart of American manufacturing.” The conservative, pro-business Wall Street Journal …
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Jun 22
CALL ON FASTRACK !!!!
2 of 2,747 The Fast Track fight is back in the Senate – please make a call! USW Rapid Response rapidresponse@usw.org via listserv.steelworkers.org Deceptive Moves Send Fast Track Back to the Senate We’re expecting votes AGAIN in the Senate this week. How we got here: After the House Republican leadership …
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