APRIL
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Tough Challenges Face Workers This Yearcont. from previous
Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., a new member of Congress, said she was committed to work in the spirit of bipartisanship and see that workers’ rights are protected. “But be ready in 2002 to win back congressional seats and make Dick Gephardt the new Speaker of the House,” Solis said. UAW Secretary-Treasurer Ruben Burks called for a moment of silence in the conference hall for Missouri’s late Governor Mel Carnahan, his son, and a top aide, who were killed in a plane crash last October. By law, Carnahan’s name remained on the ballot, and Missouri voters elected him senator. Delegates welcomed his widow, Sen. Jean Carnahan, D-Mo., who was appointed to fill his seat. She cited three guideposts in her life that have gotten her through some very difficult times: Never give up no matter how hopeless things seem, never forget who you are, and fight for the things that matter. “I promise to do all of these things and fight for working families,” Carnahan said. Rep. Jack Quinn, R-N.Y., thanked the UAW for its election support and said that not every Republican in the House of Representatives is anti-labor. Quinn, a Republican from a working-class district in western New York who has rallied GOP votes on several labor issues in the past, pledged he would work to deny fast track authority to the Bush administration for future trade negotiations. Newly elected Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo., said he would “always be there for organized labor and the working people of this country.” Clay criticized anti-labor appointments by President Bush, condemned efforts to repeal OSHA’s final ergonomics standard, and called for “the protection of workers at home and abroad.”
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