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Your TPEL support It is said that the next president of the United States will appoint the majority to the Supreme Court during his term in office. That is very important to all of us. Do you want a president who will appoint conservative justices, or a president who will appoint justices that will be sympathetic to causes that affect the everyday lives of American workers? Support the UTU's Transportation Political Education League (TPEL) with your voluntary contributions. We need the Democrats to win back the Congress. Your support through TPEL will help get our friends elected to office, including Republicans who support labor causes. Why? For example, with a Democratic-controlled Congress and with our Republican friends we should get legislation passed which would prohibit striker replacement. Now, regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO): How powerful an organization is it? Was the Seattle protest successful? Imagine, having the WTO make decisions behind closed doors that affect laws, including our own laws! It has been reported that each year in France, some 2,000 workers die from asbestos-related cancer. Yet a law to ban all forms of asbestos there has been challenged as a violation of the WTO's trade accords. In Massachusetts, when voters passed a referendum in 1998 to ban state procurement from companies that do business with the slave-labor regime in Myanmar, a state court ruled that the action ran afoul of the WTO. WTO says that world trade will be good for competition. How do we compete with employees who earn 30 cents an hour? The Seattle protest was not just a protest by labor, but included people who are community activists, farmers, religious leaders, environmentalists and students. That protest shows what unity can do here in the United States. Just imagine how successful we can be if we can develop solidarity with people throughout the world. In unity there is strength. |
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