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TWU President Takes Anti-Automation Campaign To Papal Confab

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 3/8/19

John Samuelsen, international president of the Transport Workers Union, used his spot as a keynote speaker at a March 4-5 Vatican conference on climate change, technology and transport to make his case that driverless buses would undermine public safety and the loss of several hundred thousands jobs in the U.S. alone.

The three-day conference, which included dozens of transport union leaders and manufacturers from around the world, was a follow-up on Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical calling for “swift and unified global action” to combat climate change that at the same time advances economic and social justice.

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