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  • iMail , News December 8, 2006

    iMail for Thursday, December 7, 2006

    Kansas Governor Named to Lead DGA Union members and working families nationwide will have a key ally in an important position when Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius takes over as leader of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA). Sebelius succeeds outgoing 2-term DGA chairman, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who joins a crowded field considering a run

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  • News December 7, 2006

    President Bush Orders Rail PEB

    President George W. Bush established a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) this week to investigate and report on the four-year contract dispute between Metro-North Railroad and 3,500 employees represented by a coalition of unions, including the Machinists Union, Transportation Communications Union (TCU) and Transport Workers Union. For 120 days from the creation of the PEB, Metro-North

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  • News December 7, 2006

    Kansas Governor Named to Lead DGA

    Union members and working families nationwide will have a key ally in an important position when Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius takes over as leader of the Democratic Governors Association (DGA). Sebelius succeeds outgoing 2-term DGA chairman, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who joins a crowded field considering a run for the White House in 2008.

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  • News December 5, 2006

    Solidarity on Display at Raytheon Picket Lines

    Fueled by determination to win a fair contract and resolved to hold the line on health care costs, members of Local 933 in Tucson, AZ are moving in to their fifth week of a strike against profit-rich Raytheon Missile Systems. Despite a recent 41 percent increase in earnings per share, Raytheon’s contract offer would increase

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  • News December 5, 2006

    RJ Reynolds Agrees to Post Union Notices

    The anti-union tobacco giant RJ Reynolds in Winston-Salem, NC, has agreed to post notices advising employees of their right to organize a union at all facilities involved in last year’s union election for nearly 2,000 production and maintenance workers. The agreement by RJ Reynolds is in response to Unfair Labor Practice charges brought before the

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