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  • Local News July 2, 2008

    Disaster Assistance for Members in the Midwest Harmed by Torrential Rain, Floods and Tornados

    AFL-CIO/Red Cross (Indiana) In Indiana, AFL-CIO Labor Liaisons to the Red Cross have been assigned to assist union members who have been affected by the widespread devastation floods and tornados.  Many people are in need of services: now the AFL-CIO and Red Cross are asking TCU members to help identify anyone who needs help.  If you,

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  • Local News July 1, 2008

    The Union Makes Us Strong: Chicago Local 2500 Presents Disaster Relief Fund Check to Member

    July 1, 2008—In Chicago, Gail Hampton has been a member of the union for 20 years, first in District 2509 and now Local 2500.  An Amtrak employee, she learned recently that the union would help her out in troubled times: following a fire at her home, she was presented with a check from TCU’s Disaster Relief Fund. Seen in

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  • Local News June 20, 2008

    Call Goes Out to Honor Recent Members of the Military

    TCU’s Convention will start on July 29, 2009 (with the Carmen Division Convention taking place the day before, on July 28). Preparations have already begun.  Among the projects for the 2009 Convention is our plan to pay tribute to the those among us who are or have been recently in the military—members, their spouses, their children and grandchildren

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  • Local News June 13, 2008

    Daughter of Local 1043 Member Wins 2008 UnionPlus Scholarship

    June 13, 2008—Jane C. Morris of Wevertown, New York, has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship by the Union Plus program.  Her father, James J. Morris III, is a member of Local 1043. Jane’s list of academic honors, extracurricular activities and achievement awards is long.  But she’s proudest of a program she started that recovers useable

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  • Local News June 13, 2008

    Local 126 FST Wright Earns MBA

    June 13, 2008—Congratulations go to Paul Wright, financial secretary-treasurer of Local 126, who on June 20 will receive a Master of  Business Administration from the Keller Graduate School of Management at the DeVry University Kansas City, Missouri campus.  “Everyone is ecstatic that I am finally done,” says FST Wright, who specialized in Information Security.  “No

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