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Engineers Endorse Obama
 By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, April 29, 2008  |  12:25 PM

The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers has settled on its candidate for president, and the endorsement goes to ... Barack Obama.

The union represents engineers, scientists and technicians at the Defense and Energy departments and NASA.

Obama, said IFPTE president Gregory Junemann, "will immediately reverse the last eight years of the union busting promulgated on our nation’s civil servants; will stand against free trade agreements like NAFTA that fail to protect American workers; will address our nation’s dangerous health care crisis; will work to oppose irresponsible privatization schemes in the public and federal sectors; [and] will work to protect the pensions and retirement security of working Americans..."

Obama praised IFPTE for "working to make sure that Washington is working for working Americans." He added, "they’ll have a partner in the White House when I’m president. I’ll fight for organized labor by protecting the right to organize. I’ll support vigorous reinvestment in our federal research and development agencies, including NASA, to maintain America’s leadership in science and technology and to foster economic competitiveness."



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"He(Obama) plans on making Rev. Wright Sec. of Labor"??You should know this is just more of Ketters B. S.

W D Jackson  | Friday, May 02, 2008 |  04:27 PM


Even Mr. Obama doesn't quite see the whole picture. Many federal employees and most Americans think the government is broken.

Pandering to a union of a handful of engineers by saying that they make sure that Washington is working for working Americans is kind of backhanded slap in the face to the working Americans, most of whom think that the Congress and President are only working for a few rich people.

As a whole, working Americans believe they are losing ground. Their purchasing power is being eroded. Their jobs are in jeopardy. The only union people making lots of money are the guys running the unions. Mr. Obama needs to address how he will fix the government or Americans may just flip a coin when they vote.

Robert M.  | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |  09:32 PM


Not real engineers, Robert, "government engineers" like those hard-working well-fed engineers over at the GAO, who are always denouncing A-76 competitions and any thing else that might have the adverse impact of costing a lazy, unmotivated federal employee to lose his or her job. Sadly, you can no longer respect anything produced by the "Government Accountability Office."

Happy Fed  | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 |  07:53 AM


Well Done!

Donald Martin  | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |  09:11 PM


He plans on making the Rev Wright the Sec of Labor

dan ketter  | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |  05:11 PM


There is no Engineers union in the Department of Defense. Engineers are prohibited from being in a bargaining unit by position, and also by most state registration offices.

Robert  | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 |  02:47 PM



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