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Barack Obama
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Barack Obama

• Born in Hawaii in 1961 and raised by a single
  mother and grandparents from rural Kansas
• Graduated from Columbia University in 1983
• Moved to Illinois in 1985 where he became a
  community organizer with a Christian church-based
  group
• As an organizer, he worked with laid-off union
  steel workers on job training and other benefit
  programs
• He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard in
  1991
• Taught Constitutional Law at the University of
  Chicago

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Elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996

• 100 Lifetime Voting Record with UTU - Illinois
• 90 Lifetime Voting Record with Illinois AFL-CIO

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A sampling of UTU-IllinoisBills supported by
Obama

• Prohibition of one-person rail crews
• Trauma Counseling for crews after critical rail
  accidents
• Railroad Crew Van Regulations
• Railroad Walkway Safety Standards
• Mass Transit Funding
• Whistle Blower Protection

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A Sampling of Illinois AFL-CIO Bills supported
by Obama

• Anti-Strike Breaker Act
• Buy American Requirements
• Health Care Justice Act
• Minimum Wage Increase
• Protection of Overtime Pay
• Prevailing Wage Improvements

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In 2004, Barack Obama was elected to the US
Senate

• 100 Voting Record with UTU
• 98 Voting Record with National AFL-CIO

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Barack Obama
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Worker Issues

• He has voted to protect fair pay, overtime,
  prevailing wages and medical care.
• He opposes privatizing Social Security or
  Railroad Retirement.

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Worker Issues

• He is an original co-sponsor of the Employee Free
  Choice Act.
• He supports providing health care for all that
  cuts costs and improves quality.

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Worker Issues

• I dont want to wake up four years from now and
  find out that millions of Americans still lack
  health care because we couldnt take on the
  insurance industry.
• Barack Obama, in New Hampshire
• on January 8, 2008

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Worker Issues

• He supports mandatory and comprehensive security
  training for transportation workers, including
  railroad workers.
• He supports the extension of whistleblower
  protections to transportation workers.

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National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank

• Barack Obama believes that it is critically
  important for the United States to rebuild its
  national transportation infrastructure
  highways, bridges, roads, ports, air and train
  systems, to strengthen user safety, bolster our
  long term competitiveness and ensure that our
  economy will grow.

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National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank

• The Bank will receive an infusion of federal
  money, 60 billion over 10 years, to provide
  financing to transportation infrastructure
  projects across the nation.
• These projects will create up to two million
  direct and indirect jobs per year and stimulate
  approximately 35 billion per year in new
  economic activity.

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Transit Issues

• Barack Obama will re-commit federal resources to
  public mass transportation projects across the
  country.
• He will work with state and local governments to
  create new, effective public transportation
  systems and modernize our aging public transit
  infrastructure.

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Transit Issues

• He will reform the tax code to make benefits for
  driving and public transit or rideshare equal.
• He will work to safe guard Mass Public
  Transportation by fighting for greater
  information sharing between national intelligence
  agents and local officials and provide local law
  enforcement agencies with the every day tools
  they need to protect their transportation
  systems.

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Transit Issues

• He will push for a fair process to receive and
  maintain a commercial drivers license.
• He will require 13(c) bargaining protections for
  Transit Projects.

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Rail Issues

• He supports the elimination of limbo time.
• He opposes the outsourcing of inspections of
  trains entering the U.S.
• He supports NY Dock labor protections.

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Rail Issues

• He will preserve the sanctity of Railroad
  Retirement.
• He will also preserve the sanctity of the Federal
  Employers Liability Act (FELA).

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Amtrak

• Barack Obama is a strong supporter of federal
  financial support for Amtrak.
• As a Senator, he is a co-sponsor of the Passenger
  Investment and Innovation Act of 2007.
• As president, he will continue to fight for
  Amtrak funding and reform so that individuals,
  families and businesses throughout the country
  have safe and reliable transportation options.

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Barack Obama is committed to High Speed Rail

• We can invest in rail, so that cities like
  Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Louis are
  connected by high-speed trains, and folks have
  alternatives to air travel.
• Barack Obama, in Flint Michigan
• on June 16, 2008

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Obama supports development of High-Speed Rail
across the country

• Well also invest in our ports, road and high
  speed rails, because I dont want to see the
  fastest train in the world built halfway around
  the world in Shanghai. I want to see it built
  right here in the United States of America.
• Barack Obama, to the US Conference of
  Mayors, 2008

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Make Your Voice Be Heard

• Barack Obama
• Transportation Labors Choice

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Make Your Voice Be Heard

• I believe the American people are tired of fear
  and tired of distractions and tired of
  diversions. We can make this election not about
  fear, but about the future. And that wont just
  be a Democratic victory that will be an American
  victory.
• Barack Obama, in Des Moines, Iowa on
  November 10, 2007

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Make Your Voice Be Heard
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