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May 14, 2009 - 01:44 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Unions call out 'star power'

You might not think of actors and entertainers as union members in the same vein as blue-collar workers on the assembly line. But the AFL-CIO recruited the star power of 47 actors, musicians, Broadway performers, comedians, writers, and others...

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March 3, 2009 - 06:40 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Obama thanks, praises unions

President Obama thanks Big Labor for its help pushing through his economic stimulus package in a video message tonight to the AFL-CIO executive council gathering in Miami. "We have already started to change America on behalf of working people," the...

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Fri, 08/08/2008 - 14:21

Local union questions O’Reilly’s working class credentials, calls for tax returns

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

A local union has questioned Ed O'Reilly's "working class guy" campaign persona, charging that O'Reilly has neglected to hire unionized workers.

In a letter to O'Reilly (D-Gloucester) earlier this week obtained by PolitickerMA.com on Friday, the local chapter of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, a branch of the AFL-CIO, sharply criticized O'Reilly for not hiring unionized painters to paint his campaign office.

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