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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and a group of business and labor leaders released a letter [last week] urging Congress’ L.A. delegation to help pass a transportation measure they say will create jobs and further the region’s aggressive rail expansion. The U.S. Senate recently approved a two-year, $109-billion version of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization bill that would [...] 
In this video, produced by the Jobs 1st Alliance, Southern California leaders make the case for acting with urgency to improve transportation infrastructure to keep the region from losing jobs to the Panama Canal expansion. The Canal expansion will allow larger ships to bypass the West Coast and discharge their cargo on the [...] Excerpts from the Los Angeles Times. Note that the Jobs 1st Alliance includes the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 11, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, BNSF Railway, Union Pacific, and others: The Jobs 1st Alliance fears that the ports could lose as many as 100,000 jobs when the Panama Canal overhaul allows much [...] |
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