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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
Read moreTCU’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
Read moreJune 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
Read moreJune 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
Read moreA strong delegation of Local 1315 members and their families turned out for the Entertainment Industries’ Revlon Run/Walk for Women May 10 in Los Angeles. “Actually,” President Maggie Cook reports, “It was a 5k Run/Walk and Roll—I was in a wheelchair.” Starting at the L.A. Coliseum, participants went through the USC and Exposition Park areas,
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