Word: trumka
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...also very expensive to prompt people to retire at what now seems to be an early age and collect pensions rather than pay taxes that might finance others' pensions for a vital five years or so. The counterargument, voiced by International United Mine Workers of America president Richard Trumka, among others, is that many blue-collar jobs are too physically demanding to be continued beyond, or even...
...keeping the budget deficit in check over the next 35 years, which requires action now to avert a looming entitlements-spending explosion. That goal is proving elusive. Kerrey and Danforth introduced their own proposal only to reveal wide splits among the 32 committee members. Those members range from Richard Trumka, president of the United Mine Workers, who criticized the Kerrey-Danforth proposal for relying too heavily on cutting benefits and not enough on tightening tax subsidies, to Representative Bill Archer, the Texas Republican who next month will assume the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and is a staunch...
...Friday, Brown chided Clinton for luring employers to low-wage Arkansas, joking that the state's motto is, "Come on over, we have slave labor here." Brown has won the unofficial support of the new president of the cleaned-up Teamsters, Ron Carey, and United Mine Workers president Richard Trumka. Last week powerful California assembly speaker Willie Brown warned Tsongas and Clinton to stay out of the primary there "to avoid a potentially embarrassing loss...