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LYNN — General Electric and union negotiators are bargaining wages, healthcare and retirement at a time when the firm’s aviation business, including the River Works, are the bright spot on GE’s gloomy financial landscape.
With a four-year contract between GE and 11 unions set to expire on June 23, contract talks in Cincinnati entered their third week on Monday. Negotiations on behalf of 6,100 workers include 1,253 International Union of Electric Workers (IUE) Local 201 employees at the River Works.
Funding for GE’s Lynn ITEP program, MIT Lincoln Labs, US Naval Sea Cadets among priorities that clear important legislative hurdle
WASHINGTON —Early yesterday morning, the House Armed Services Committee passed the National Defense Authorization Act. It includes a number of locally-important measures Representative Seth Moulton has championed as a member of the committee. The bill will head to the floor of the House for a vote in July.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s accusation on Thursday that Iran was behind an attack on two oil tankers forces President Trump to confront a choice he has avoided until now: whether to make good on his threat that Tehran would “suffer greatly” if American interests were imperiled.
WASHINGTON – One described a Veterans Affairs police officer throwing a New York veteran seeking therapy to the ground. Another said a California veteran died after receiving similar treatment at the hands of VA police there. A third noted that a VA officer training to be an instructor at the national VA police academy threatened employees with a gun at a Massachusetts car dealership.
The underlying question from lawmakers to VA officials Tuesday: What is going on with VA police?
DUIs, domestic incidents, arrests, police brutality, even murder plots -- members of Congress spent much of a Tuesday hearing detailing horror stories of VA police misconduct.
Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., told Department of Veterans Affairs leadership about a veteran who, while recovering from spinal surgery, was allegedly tackled to the ground by VA police and handcuffed. When he asked for a police report from the incident, he received a summons in the mail to appear in federal court on criminal charges.
After the death of two local high-powered academics in Florida last month, a pair of local congressmen have introduced a measure to address safety concerns in vehicles with keyless ignition.
The legislation, introduced by Democratic Massachusetts congressmen Joe Kennedy III of Newton and Seth Moulton of Salem, comes after the deaths of Sherry H. Penney, 81, the former interim president of the University of Massachusetts, and James Livingston, 88, a retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Democratic presidential candidate Seth Moulton on Sunday pledged to do “whatever I can” to ban all assault weapons and high-capacity magazines if he’s elected next year, calling gun violence a “national emergency” in the wake of Friday’s mass shooting in Virginia.
The Massachusetts congressman from Salem, who served in Iraq, said “weapons of war have no place on our streets or in our schools.”
Robert Mueller volunteered to serve his country in Vietnam and under the administrations of Republicans and Democrats. He is an American patriot.
Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran who is running for president, will introduce a plan Tuesday evening to expand military mental health services and will disclose that he sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder after his combat deployments during the Iraq War.