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RRB UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WERE CUT IN 2012 - CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY
TO GET THIS FIXED!
In recent weeks BMWED members joined other rail union members and
allies in persuading Senators Portman (R) and Klobuchar (D) to fix our
unfairly reduced unemployment benefits. Portman and Klobuchar just
co-authored U.S. Senate Bill 4860 - they need other Senators to
co-sponsor the bill to ensure its passage this year.

This is our opportunity to get our RRB unemployment benefits back to
100%. Since the 2012 Sequester, they've been cut - currently by 5.7%.

Please call your 2 Senators today and demand they fully restore our
unemployment benefits!

(202) 224-3121

Here is a script you can use when you call both of your Senators (you'll
probably get voicemail or a staffer):

"Hello - My name is [YOUR NAME]and I live in [city & state]. I am a
union railroader, and I'm calling to urge you to co-sponsor and support
Senate Bill 4860 - The Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act (REEF
Act) - during the lame duck session. If we get laid-off our families
will need fully restored unemployment benefits, which were cut in 2012
by Sequestration and never made whole. No other unemployment benefit in
the United States has this kind of cut. It's simply unfair that
railroaders have to suffer this way. Please do the right thing,
co-sponsor and support the REEF Act today - thank you."

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