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 Your senators and congressional representatives had dozens of chances to cast their votes for or against working families over the last year. This electronic AFL-CIO Voting Record will let you know where your lawmakers stand on working family issues such as strengthening Social Security and Medicare, freedom to join a union, the Patients' Bill of Rights, Fast Track, fair wages, education and workplace safety. http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/votes/index.cfm
 Take Action!Send-A-Fax: Tell President Bush to withdraw his overtime pay take-away. Now is the time for President Bush to withdraw his overtime pay take-away. Please send him a message asking him to withdraw his overtime pay proposal http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/faxbush4ot
 Take Action!Act to protect the freedom to choose a union. New bipartisan legislation (H.R. 3619 and S. 1925) introduced in Congress will help fix the broken process through which workers form unions. Please take a moment right now to send a fax to your senators and representative. Urge them to sign on as a sponsor of this important pro-worker legislation http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/sponsorefca  Update- The fight for the unemployed continues as it was reported that the economy gained only 21,000 jobs in February - 285,000 fewer than President Bush promised. That's one job created for every 380 unemployed workers http://capwiz.com/ibew/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=4379521
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