Show Write To Tl Congress To Get 1 r c. c J. J Unemployment Benefits TRA r To The Editor L. L I A federally funded program T TRA RA Trade Re-adjustment Re Act is an extended unemployment benefit made available by congress for people who wh lost their jobs due to foreign impo imports ts aff affecting ting the industry they we were e in I In n l the Salt SaIt Lake Valley the company most qualified is Copper being in inthe inthe inthe the copper industry but the program just isn't for forK workers its it's for anybody qualified to have it It was designed to provide an extended income r for those who ran out out of of regular unemployment The program would would allow allow a person to receive benefits for a total of 78 weeks to avoid having to work full time while in school learning a trade from being dislocated The program expired Dec 1985 because congress failed to re-instate re the program and they haven't given any encouragement of the program continuing Since the beginning of the winter whiter quarter students on TRA have been dropping out of Utah Tech to get a low paying unskilled job Another federally funded program TAA Trade Adjustment Act pays for tuition books and tools andis and andis is a safe secure program Students have been doing their part since TAA monitors their attendance and grades When a student drops out of school they cannot get back on TAA and this i is the only program that dislocated ted students could qualify for These students may be you youa a a relative a neighbor or close friend These people want to get back on their feet take care of their then families or and/or other responsibilities so they wont won't have to always rely on tax taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers payers assistance from the government to feed them To increase the chances of getting the T TRA RA program re-instated re well we'll need enough of everyone's immediate te help Within the e. e next few weeks five different lett letters rs will be prepared They will have dear blank and a sincerely blank Several veral copies will be made of each and they will be placed on a table inside the College Center cafeteria where everyone could pick up one put the name of a congressman senator or s speaker ker on it and sign the letter Names and a addresses dresses will be provided on a list for you to choose from where they will go goto goto goto to Washington DC D.C. immediately as addressed The idea is to bombard congress with hun hundreds of le letters rs by getting everyone informed and involved to put en enough ug p pressure on congress to re-instate re the TRA RA T program Please PI pass th the word a around unda and d encourage others to pick up a copy of th the s school ool paper read this article and ask them to pass the w word An Anything and everything anybody willo will o U to to help will will be highly aPI appreciated d. d If y you u wish to contact corita t Mme me c call Il Jim K at or see me in in m Room b CT T Construction Trades Building during the morning hours Jim Ke Keemer mer |