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Army

UAW President Urges Defense Secretary To Maintain Abrams Tank Funding

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, October 26th, 2012

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The president of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America--UAW has written to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressing concern over the Army’s proposal to end tank modernization, and calling for maintained Abrams tank funding. In the Oct. 4 letter from Solidarity House in Detroit, Mich., Bob King wrote on behalf of the more than one million active and retired UAW members about the end of modernizing the tank, a plan that “places in jeopardy our…

Congress

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Budget

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Congress

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