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Special to the Transcript On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union (MCOFU) endorsed Jeffrey Turco for State Representative, 19th Suffolk District.  The seat was vacated by former Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo and a Special Election is set for March 30th with the primary being held on March 2nd. “In the opinion of our Executive Board, Jeff Turco will fight hard for public safety and to improve the quality of lives for the residents in the District,” said Kevin Flanagan, MCOFU Legislative Representative. The MCOFU currently represents all employees in Bargain...

And that a union is representing his workers. he said we have an historic contract agreement that provides unprecedented protections and benefits." sanders said he's disappointed his field staff with go to the press to air their concerns. they have a union and a bargaining unit, they can negotiate these issues without bringing them out into the light of the day. this would be a headache for anyone dealing with a union but in a presidential campaign, especially bernie sanders who has made employee rights a hall mack mark of his campaign, it's made it very difficult for him. >> thank you. let's ...

Not sure he can relate to what all of you workers are going through. but he said many of those people who won't be receiving a paycheck, they agree 100% with what i'm doing. do you think he can relate? >> i don't know -- i'm sorry, i don't know any of these people and the president of our -- of afg local 3381 and i have yet to have a member of the unit articulate that position to me. whether the president can relate or not, i don't know. but what i do know is this administration has in the past year authored three executive orders that striped rights for bargaining unit employees later overtur...

We negotiate wages and when we heard the white house say by cutting the corporate tax rate to 20% workers we get a 4000-dollar wage increase we reacted in the logical asked. we sent a letter and attached that was a contract proposal. it said if the corporate tax rate was reduced to 20%, every employee in the bargaining unit will receive a 4000-dollar wage increase. this is in the company's control. the white house is sane and leaders are saying that if this would take effect this is what would happen. we want that primus in writing and in the binding agreement. >> steve: that's a creative resp...

Me later, after the president speaks, where the new aircraft will be unveiled but he'll be speaking about an hour from now, but it is an intense visit where the president will be talking about jobs at a time when a couple of weeks ago workers here voted not to organize in a bargaining unit, and that is of course critical as well from the administration's point of view. boeing a huge employer here, about 7,500 employees right here. we've been here for a while as this event is ramping up. of course with all the security and everything, they've got lots of people here already that stretch far beh...