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Tariffs do not automatically raise wages or create good jobs. While strong tariff policies can help preserve jobs in industries facing unfair competition, strong unions are a prerequisite for tariffs to translate into widespread job and wage gains.

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"The objective is to write a new, positive chapter in the history of Mastic Beach [and] to turn vagrancy and vacancy into vibrancy," Brookhaven Supervisor Dan Panico said on Aug. 18 in a telephone interview.

But now, the nation’s tax collecting arm is doing an about-face as it scurries to fill critical jobs after losing nearly 26,000 employees, nearly one-quarter of its national workforce, from buyouts, resignations and firings.

“Tearing up our contracts is a disservice to every American who benefits from the programs and services our members deliver. But let me be clear: our union isn’t going anywhere,” AFGE president Everett Kelley said in a statement Friday.

Outraged union leaders and elected officials gathered in front of the Uniondale school district headquarters on Aug.