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Local Lodge 1635 News  Transportation Day of Action in NYC6/15/2005 Nearly 1000 airline and railroad members of the International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) today held a prayer service at the
former site of the World Trade Center and then marched to New York City's
Battery Park to protest the destruction of jobs and pensions in the
transportation industry."Airlines are using the bankruptcy courts to terminate pensions, wipe out healthcare benefits and destroy a way of life that was once as real as the American Dream," said IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger. "Railroads are dragging out negotiations for years while workers receive below-market wages and benefits, all with the approval of the Bush Administration. This harassment of America's transportation workers must stop." Speakers at the rally included Eliot Spitzer, New York State Attorney General; Rich Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO; Denis Hughes, President, NY State AFL-CIO; and Captain Peter Gorman, President, Uniformed Fire Officers Association. "Hundreds of thousands of transportation workers must be added to the casualty list of the 9-11 attacks," said IAM General Vice President Robert Roach, Jr. "Today, we vow to continue our fight to defend the power, respect and dignity of transportation workers from greedy corporations who used the 9-11 tragedy as a springboard for a frontal assault on their employees." |
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