The Senate on Wednesday passed a two-year, $109-billion transportation funding bill. The investment in roads and bridges would create 1 million new construction jobs. A member of the Senate transportation committee, Bernie helped write the bill. "At a time when when our infrastructure is collapsing this bill is a good step forward,” he said. Read more >>>

It’s not much of a shock that lies are popping up in the Republican presidential nomination race. But in Michigan, Mitt Romney is telling one whopper of lie about the UAW, the auto bailout that saved two of the nation’s Big 3 car manufacturers and President Obama. In a nutshell, Romney says Obama should have let Chrysler and GM go bankrupt—that should win him a lot of votes in Michigan today—and Obama instead “gave the companies to the UAW.” Read more >>>

The Manchester Central Labor Council AFL-CIO is a political arm of the State Federation of Labor representing over [4,000] members of [42] affilliated Unions throughout the city of Manchester, New Hampshire and the surrounding towns. The mission of the Manchester Central Labor Council AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families and to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our community, the state and the nation.

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