Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Thursday 9 April 2015

The European Union Times


Posted: 08 Apr 2015 03:09 PM PDT
Preserved human skulls exhibited at the Genocide memorial in Nyamata, inside a Catholic church where thousands were slaughtered during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
France has declassified documents relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
A decision to declassify documents concerning Rwanda and the genocide, which claimed at least 800,000 lives, was made on Tuesday, said a source in President Francois Hollande’s office.
According to the source, the papers include documents from diplomatic and military advisers of then-President Francois Mitterrand, and will be viewable by researchers and historians.
“The president had announced a year ago that France must provide proof of transparency and facilitate remembrance of this period,” said the source.
Paris has always rejected all claims concerning its alleged training of the militias that took part in the massacres.
As usual, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused France of complicity in the genocide, because its always better to place the blame on someone else and then while at it ask for some reparations in millions of Euros or something.
Last year, Kagame said that France had not “done enough to save lives” and had not only been complicit but “an actor” in the Tutsis’ massacres.
He also referred to “the direct role of Belgium and France in the political preparation of the genocide, and the participation of the latter in its actual execution.”
The Rwandan genocide began following the shooting down of a plane carrying former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994. Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was also killed in the plane crash. They were both ethnic Hutus.
After the crash, Hutus who were in majority, were incited to commit acts of ethnic violence against Tutsis.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2015 03:00 PM PDT

What Golden Dawn repeatedly says about this issue of illegal immigration in Greece, which of course the media pimps characterize as excessive and most certainly “racist”, are fully confirmed by the officers of the Greek coast guard who experience every day the de facto invasion of illegal immigrants from our sea borders.
More specifically, the Staff Association of the Coast Guard of Lesvos, Lemnos and Agios (St.) Efstratios, sent a letter to the political and civilian leadership of the Greek Parliament which raises essentially the major issue which the pseuto-huanitarian, domestic status quo in Greece is attempting to conceal “under the carpet” so to speak.
The letter of the port officials leaves no room for the slightest doubt about the real situation in the Aegean which is being deliberately concealed and controlled by the establishment media in Greece:
“After another weekend where we port officials serve on the island of Lesbos, and having outdone ourselves in having a clearer image of most of the numbers which show us what is really happening and are unambiguous, we present the following: In the month February 2015, in Lesvos, there were recorded 1,041 people whereas, in February 2014, there were recorded 250 people. However, in March 2014 there were recorded 650, but from the beginning of this year, 2015, up until March 30, 2015, were already have recorded over 3000 “!
On the one hand, the letter of the Staff Union of the Coast Guard ends in dramatic fashion, but it’s indicative of the state things are in as they are methodically being rolled out:
“At current rates, which in fact will increase, if last year we had about 70 000 people illegally enter into Greece, this year will exceed half a million with whatever that entails!”
Which means that Golden Dawn’s complaints to the previous as well as the current government about the heated issue of illegal immigration are in no way alarmist predictions, but rather a sober assessment of the situation.
However, on the substance of the matter, the political parties of the so-called “constitutional” coalition are forming a devastating prospect not only for the economy of our country, but for Greece itself and the Greek people.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2015 02:51 PM PDT

With a declining population, Japan is on track to lose about half its workforce by 2060, and with that, its status as an economic superpower.
Some are calling for an “immigration revolution” but that is gaining little traction in a country that is seen as the most homogenous in the world.
In Japan, birth rates are at record lows and the ageing population at record highs.
Now, the former head of Tokyo’s Immigration Bureau, Hidenori Sakanaka, is calling for what many Japanese find unthinkable, large-scale immigration.
“We need an immigration revolution to bring in 10 million people in the next 50 years, otherwise the Japanese economy will collapse,” Mr Sakanaka said.
He said it was now a case of “populate or perish” and Japan had to change its mentality.
“Japan is an island country and we didn’t let foreigners enter for over 1,000 years, so we haven’t had great experiences living with other ethnic groups,” he said.
Japan’s last experience with immigrants did not end well.
To fuel Japan’s “economic miracle”, Brazilians of Japanese descent were encouraged to return in the 1980s and 1990s.
With their very different culture, they established communities and worked in factories, but when the bubble burst and companies downsized, many of the 300,000 Brazilians were sent home.
Shoko Takano stayed and set up a school to support the Brazilian community.
Most of the children are third or fourth generation but still cannot get Japanese citizenship.
“Japanese Brazilians are disadvantaged and they get bullied,” Ms Takano said.
“The kids can’t speak Japanese well so they’re bullied. They become dropouts and the job prospects are not good. The community is behind from the very start.”
Foreign worker visas pose problems
The Japanese government has said the solution to the shrinking workforce is to give more foreigners, working and training visas for three to five years.
But the United Nations has likened the scheme to slavery where the workers have no rights and are paid little.
A Bangladeshi man, who wants to remain unidentified, worked in the Japanese construction industry for decades but was forced out. He said he was discriminated against.
“The Japanese workers told me they didn’t want to work with me or learn from me even though I have a lot of experience. I couldn’t go on,” he said.
His lawyer, Shoichi Ibusuki, said more visas for foreign workers was not the answer. About 200 Japanese companies had already been found guilty of mistreatment.
“The government has to create a proper system to accept foreigners and understand them more. They’re using a distorted system and foreign workers’ human rights are being violated,” Mr Ibusuki said.
Mr Sakanaka agreed, saying Japan needed a permanent solution to the problem, not a quick fix.
“This is ridiculous. After considerable effort they learn skills and the language in Japan and then they have to go home after five years,” he said.
“I think it won’t last and it should be abolished. The government has to have real immigration.”
For continued prosperity, Japan faces a choice: embrace immigration with full rights or lose its position as the world’s third biggest economy.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2015 02:31 PM PDT

The US and Japan are close to finalizing the revision of bilateral defense rules that would expand the two countries’ military cooperation, and allow Tokyo to play a more “proactive” role in regional security, according to US Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
The bilateral defense agreement lays down a set of rules for joint operations between the US Military and Japan’s Self-Defense Forces (SDF). The last time the agreement was revised was in 1997, and the SDF’s role was limited to protecting the US military only when it was acting in Tokyo’s defense and only within the Japan’s geographic vicinity.
In a joint press conference in Tokyo, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani announced that a revision of the bilateral agreement would give the SDF a greater range of circumstances and wider geographical scope in which to militarily support and protect the US. If the agreement is approved, the SDF would therefore be able to act when US forces are threatened by a third country, even if the American military is not acting in defense of Japan at the time.
According to Carter, the updated rules will “transform the US-Japan alliance” and allow the two countries to “cooperate seamlessly” in response to challenges around the world.
The guidelines will “detail how our two governments will continue to work together around the world and in new domains such as space and cyberspace…to ensure Japan’s peace and security,” he said, “They will help us respond flexibly to the full scope of challenges we face…in the Asia-Pacific and around the world.”
The revised rules are expected to be unveiled next month, ahead of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Washington visit for the so-called ministerial two-plus-two talks. Should they be approved, the rules would mark an evolution in US-Japan military ties and would fall in line with Abe’s efforts to expand the SDF’s military power which has been tightly restricted since WWII.
Tokyo and Washington have been wary of Beijing’s increasing military build-up and growing influence in the region. Japan is locked in a territorial dispute with China over islands in the East China Sea. The US, also concerned about China’s growing influence in the region, views the revised rules as a way of granting Tokyo additional leverage in resolving the dispute with Beijing.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2015 02:15 PM PDT

A U.S. federal judge in Texas has denied the federal government’s request to lift a hold on President Barack Obama’s controversial immigration plan.
By refusing to lift the ban he issued in February, the ruling halts temporary relief from deportation and other immigration benefits for up to 4.7 million immigrants in the US.
The plan was part of Obama’s executive order, bypassing the Congress which had failed to agree on immigration reform. But 26 states, led by Texas, filed a lawsuit to overturn Obama’s executive actions, arguing they are unconstitutional and would force them to invest more in law enforcement, health care and education.
US District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, a city along the border with Mexico, wrote that the government misled the court by revealing last month that it had granted expanded work permit renewals to 100,000 illegal immigrants before the court blocked the administration from implementing its new policies.
“Any premature implementation could have serious consequences, inflicting irreparable harm on our state, and this ruling is key in determining the extent to which the federal government did not present the full truth in this case,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said.
Obama’s plan placed the focus of immigration enforcement authorities on deporting felons, not families. It also allowed parents of US citizens, permanent residents and hundreds of thousands of young adults who came to the US as children to work legally without the constant threat of deportation.
As part of his rationale for not allowing the administration to immediately implement the new policies, Hanen wrote: “It is obvious that there is no pressing, emergent need for this program.”
“As the judge has affirmed, once put into effect, President Obama’s executive amnesty program will be virtually impossible to reverse,” Paxton said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already petitioned the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to lift Hanen’s stay. The appeal to hear arguments on whether the injunction should be lifted is scheduled for April 17.
A total of 15 states and the District of Columbia are supporting the DOJ’s petition, arguing that migrants provide economic benefits, not burdens, to their states.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2015 01:02 PM PDT

A British police force has come under fire for publishing posters that critics say place the blame for rape on women rather than male attackers.
Sussex Police issued the posters as part of a campaign to prevent rape. The force intends to put them up in pub toilets and bus stops.
Campaigners say the posters reinforce the message that victims rather than assailants are to blame in sexual assault cases.
Sussex Police defended the posters, saying it wanted to raise awareness that vulnerable people could be targeted by rapists.
The posters feature an image of two young women taking a selfie, with the caption: “Which one of your mates is most vulnerable on a night out? The one you leave behind.”
It goes on to say many rapes could be prevented if women “stick together and don’t let your friend leave with a stranger or go off on their own.”
Sarah Green, director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said the posters were sending the wrong message – to the wrong people.
“We need to get beyond police campaigns giving instructions to women on how to behave to be safe,” she told the Daily Mail. “We need to talk to those who may perpetrate rape and deter them.”
Women’s rights campaigner Celia Wilson echoed Green’s comments.
“We still live in a world where women get told that they can’t walk home on their own but men are absolutely fine to do so,” she told the BBC.
Twitter users berated Sussex Police force, accusing them of making the “victim” responsible for rape.

Another Twitter user took a creative approach to the poster. @oskmatz doctored the photo to depict men drinking, turning the message on its head.
Chief Inspector Katy Woolford defended the poster as part of a campaign encouraging friends and bystanders to intervene to prevent rape.
“Rape is never a victim’s fault, but as with all crimes we can reduce the number of victims in several ways,” she told the Mail Online.
“We would be failing in our response if, as with any other crime, we did not recognize that there are victims and urge them to take steps to minimize risks and help safeguard others from becoming victims.”
“It is vital to be aware of vulnerability so that steps can be taken to guard against it. Friends and bystanders can play a key role in this, learning to recognize where their intervention may prevent a crime taking place,” she added.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2015 12:30 PM PDT
Bags of corpses dug out of a mass grave found in northern Iraq on March 14, 2015.
Iraqi security forces have discovered at least 14 mass graves since the strategic city of Tikrit was liberated from the ISIL Takfiri terrorists last week.
According to an Iraqi security source, the mass graves contain the bodies of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers massacred by ISIL outside the northern city.
The victims were found in large pits in the grounds of former dictator Saddam Hussein’s presidential palaces on the banks of the Tigris River.
Most of the victims had their hands bound.
Kamel Amin, spokesman for Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry, said experts have started exhuming the remains of 47 people, adding that the number is expected to rise.
Ali Tahir, a morgue director supervising the exhumation, said the remains will be sent back to Baghdad for DNA tests to establish identify.
In June 2014, when ISIL seized Tikrit, the militants claimed they had killed 1,700 Iraqi soldiers who had surrendered at Speicher airbase outside the city.
They also published photos and videos showing militants shooting the soldiers. The Speicher massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed by the ISIL terrorists.
Human Rights Watch published aerial pictures last September, showing the alleged sites of the mass graves.
On March 31, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said units of government forces, backed by Shia and Sunni volunteer forces, had managed to retake control of the city after heavy battles with ISIL.
The recapture of Tikrit is crucial for the Iraqi army in its quest to take control of the country’s second-largest city, Mosul.
Prime Minister Abadi recently said several people involved in the mass killing of soldiers have been detained.
ISIL started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
Over the past few months, Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have been engaged in battle to drive the terrorists out of the areas they have under control.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2015 11:15 AM PDT


Officials within the UN are pushing the notion that the human population should be reduced in order to effectively combat climate change.
The long standing notion has been continually pushed by Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC). In 2013, Figueres had a conversation with Climate One founder Greg Dalton regarding “fertility rates in population,” as a contributor to climate change.
“A related issue is fertility rates in population.” Dalton opined. “A lot of people in energy and environmental circles don’t wanna go near that because it’s politically charged. It’s not their issue.” he added.
“But isn’t it true that stopping the rise of the population would be one of the biggest levers and driving the rise of green house gases?” Dalton asked.
“Obviously less people would exert less pressure on the natural resources,” Figueres answered, also noting that estimates suggest the Earth’s population will rise to nine billion by 2050.
Dalton then questioned whether that figure could in some way be stalled or halted.
“So is nine billion a forgone conclusion? That’s like baked in, done, no way to change that?” he asked Figueres.
“There is pressure in the system to go toward that; we can definitely change those, right? We can definitely change those numbers,” Figueres said in response.
“Really, we should make every effort to change those numbers because we are already, today, already exceeding the planet’s planetary carrying capacity.” she also claimed.
“So yes we should do everything possible. But we cannot fall into the very simplistic opinion of saying just by curtailing population then we’ve solved the problem. It is not either/or, it is an and/also.” the UN official also said.
Climate One is a self described public affairs forum which advocates extreme action to combat climate change. It is a branch of The Commonwealth Club of California based in San Francisco, essentially a talking shop visited regularly by heads of government and corporate business.
Figueres is no stranger to controversial statements when it comes to climate change. The UN official previously described the goal of the UNFCC as “a complete transformation of the economic structure of the world.”
She has also repeatedly said that a Chinese style communist dictatorship is better suited than the U.S. constitutional system to fight “global warming.”
Figueres told Bloomberg News last year that the Chinese government (which continues to enforce forced abortions, infanticide and compulsory sterilization) is “doing it right” when it comes to climate change, even though China is by far the biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses.
Figueres noted that a partisan divide in the U.S. Congress is “very detrimental” to passing climate related legislation, while the Chinese Communist Party, sets policies by decree. President Obama clearly agrees given that he continues to bypass Congress by issuing executive orders on climate change.
As InfoWars has continually noted, there is a fundamental flaw in associating climate change with overpopulation.
Populations in developed countries are declining and only in third world countries are they expanding dramatically. Industrialization itself levels out population trends and even despite this world population models routinely show that the earth’s population will level out at 9 billion in 2050 and slowly decline after that. “The population of the most developed countries will remain virtually unchanged at 1.2 billion until 2050,” states a United Nations report. The UN’s support for depopulation policies is in direct contradiction to their own findings.
Once a country industrializes there is an average of a 1.6 child rate per household, so the western world population is actually in decline. That trend has also been witnessed in areas of Asia like Japan and South Korea. The UN has stated that the population will peak at 9 billion and then begin declining.
In addition, as highlighted by the Economist, global fertility rates are falling.
Since radical environmentalists are pushing to de-industrialize the world in the face of the so called carbon threat, this will reverse the trend that naturally lowers the amount of children people have. If climate change fanatics are allowed to implement their policies, global population will continue to increase and overpopulation may become a real problem – another example of how the global warming hysterics are actually harming the long term environment of the Earth by preventing overpopulated countries from developing and naturally lowering their birth levels.
Even if you play devils advocate and accept that humans do cause catastrophic warming and there are too many of us, and if you can skip past the eugenics connotations of population control and depopulation policies, those methods are fundamentally still not a valid solution to the perceived climate change threat.
The real solution would be to help increase the standard of living of the cripplingly poor third world, allowing those countries to industrialize, and seeing the population figures naturally level out.
Instead, the third world has seen a doubling in food prices owing to climate change policies such as turning over huge areas of agricultural land to the growth of biofuels.
In addition, Climate legislation continually pushed by the developed world has those nations taking on less of a burden than anticipated demanding more of poorer countries, despite the fact that any further cuts in CO2 emissions will further cripple their flimsy economies and poverty-stricken people.
Previous legislation, such as the Copenhagen agreement, allowed people in developed countries to emit twice as much carbon per head than those in poorer countries, who have not caused the rise in emissions said to be threatening our existence on the planet. The revelations have led third world leaders to accuse the developed world of “climate colonialism”.
Linking environmental policy to depopulation agendas opens the door to eugenics and it is no surprise that through that door have come pouring hordes of elitist filth just begging to be on the front line of the extermination policy.
One example is UK-based public policy group The Optimum Population Trust (OPT), which has previously launched initiatives urging wealthy members of the developed world to participate in carbon offsets that fund programs for curbing the population of developing nations.
In 2007, the group also published a report announcing that children are ‘bad for planet and ‘having large families should be frowned upon as an environmental misdemeanour in the same way as frequent long-haul flights, driving a big car and failing to reuse plastic bags.
The same talking point has been re-iterated again and again by public policy groups and environmentalists, as well as the most influential scientists in the US government.
While you may think ideas of sterilization and depopulation could never be accepted by the public, those very concepts are now being embraced and popularized by some as the way forward for humanity.
The head of the UN’s leading climate change panel is providing a platform, and in some cases actively pushing for a policy enforced by a dictatorship that hunts down mothers who become pregnant with their second child, abducts them off the street and takes them to government controlled hospitals where they are drugged and their baby is killed – all in the name of saving the planet.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2015 11:11 AM PDT

Remarks by US President Barack Obama about not requiring Iran to recognize Israel as part of a nuclear deal with the P5+1 is counter to the discourse adopted by the White House and other US officials since the regime came into being, says a renowned activist and radio host.
Obama said in a Monday interview with NPR that requiring Tehran to recognize Israel is a “fundamental misjudgment”.
According to Don DeBar, the president’s comments “directly” addressed a “demand” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said earlier that Iran’s recognition of the regime must a part of the deal with Tehran.
Like other regional countries that are “under the control of their own people”, Iran would not take such a measure, DeBar speculated. However, Obama’s address “is almost mind-blowing because it is counter to the tradition of politics in Washington, DC.”
“I’m also mindful of the fact that the nature of the United States and Europe as colonial and imperial powers has not changed,” he said, warning further that it is essential to watch out as this is “not the end of the game”.
Since negotiations began between Tehran and the P5+1 –the US, Britain, Russia, China, France, and Germany, Tel Aviv has outspokenly voiced opposition against a deal that would end sanctions on Iran in exchange for limiting its nuclear program.
Following a meeting with the Israeli cabinet on Friday, Bibi called for “unambiguous Iranian recognition of Israel’s right to exist”, saying, “the cabinet is united in strongly opposing the proposed deal”.
After lengthy talks, Iran and P5+1 finally reached a mutual understanding in the Swiss lakeside city of Lausanne on Thursday and will start drafting a final accord, dubbed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which is expected to come until the end of June.
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Posted: 07 Apr 2015 10:56 AM PDT
Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was re-elected to a second term Tuesday evening, outlasting his challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia in a hard-fought runoff.
With roughly 94 percent of precincts reporting, Emanuel holds a substantial lead over Garcia. Emanuel has 55.5 percent of the vote, compared to Garcia’s 44.5 percent. Garcia has also called Emanuel to concede the race.
The race was first called in Emanuel’s favor by CBS Chicago, with local WGN and the Chicago Sun-Times following suit afterwards.
Tuesday’s election was the first-ever mayoral runoff vote in Chicago history after the city began non-partisan mayoral elections in 1995.
In a speech following the election, Emanuel thanked voters for giving him “a second chance” despite grumbling that he did not listen to their concerns.He vowed to change his governing style in his second term.
“Chicago, I hear you. I understand the challenges we face will require me to approach them differently and work in a different fashion,” he said.
Addressing his supporters, Garcia said Chicago needs to lure in new residents and end the violence that has plagued the city if it wants to move forward. Still, he struck an upbeat tone.
“We didn’t lose today, we tried today,” Garcia said, according to the Chicago Tribune. “We fought hard for what we believe in.”
Incumbent Emanuel, 55, won the original election on February 24, but did not collect the requisite 50 percent of votes necessary to claim victory. Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, 58, finished second in February out of a total of five mayoral candidates. Both Emanuel and Garcia, who took 45 and 34 percent of February’s vote total, respectively, are Democrats.
Emanuel, a former congressman and White House chief of staff for President Barack Obama, spent millions of dollars on television and radio ads ahead of Tuesday’s vote. Chicago-based polling company Ogden & Fry released a survey on Sunday that showed Emanuel leading Garcia by a comfortable 51-33 percent margin.
Nevertheless, Garcia rallied supporters on Monday, saying that his underdog status and the growing discontent with Emanuel’s leadership means
“We weren’t supposed to be here. We were counted out,” Garcia said in the Mexican-majority Pilsen neighborhood, according to AP. “People had their say in Chicago.”
Garcia, a Mexican immigrant and former state senator, has lambasted Emanuel for being a mayor who has primarily served the most wealthy and connected communities and players in a city known for hard-nosed political dealings.
Chief among the criticisms of Emanuel have been the closure during his tenure of 50 public schools with low enrollment, as well as a skyrocketingrate of violent crime in the nation’s third-largest city.
Garcia has contended that he is the choice for low-income residents of Chicago. For example, he has rallied supporters around his opposition of traffic light cameras that have racked up thousands of $100 traffic tickets for residents. Garcia has promised to eliminate the “red-light ripoff” if elected. The city’s traffic lights are criticized for a shortened yellow-light interval before the red stop light appears, forcing drivers to run the light or risk being rear-ended by a following vehicle.
“It’s been exposed for what it really is,” Mark Wallace, a Chicago resident who has collected more than $1,000 in red-light tickets and has led protests against the camera system, told USA Today. “It’s nothing more than a way for the city of Chicago to create a slush fund that brings in a lot of revenue.”
Compounding animosity, the vendor that supplied the city with the traffic light surveillance equipment was indicted for allegedly bribing city officials.
Chicago faces a budget deficit that is expected to hit $1.2 billion by next year, mostly due to outstanding public pension payments. Emanuel has tried to paint Garcia as not having a plan to tackle the city’s fiscal problems, while Garcia has blamed Emanuel for the worsening city deficit and a system of ‘pay-to-play’ politics.
The candidates have split union support in the city, as Garcia has the support of the powerful Service Employees International Union, the Chicago Teachers Union, and the Amalgamated Transit Union. Forthcoming contract negotiations with the city’s teachers union, which directed its ire at Emanuel by going on strike in 2012, looms large for Tuesday’s winner.
Emanuel, meanwhile, has been endorsed by unions representing firefighters, pipefitters, and plumbers.
“They know the difference between jobs leaving the city, businesses leaving the city and a city now investing in its future — creating jobs,” Emanuel said Monday, according to NBC 5.
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