The Dr. Gary Burch Memorial Safety Award is given to the person who has done the most to improve the safety of railroad passengers. The National Association of Railroad Passengers is looking for nominations for this award. The award will be presented at the NARP Annual Congressional Reception on April 21, 2009 in Washington, DC.
This letter to the editor of the Orlando Sentinel was written by retired member Michael Denshaw of Kissimmee, Florida. It appeared in the July 28, 2008 newspaper. Denshaw, 79, worked for Conrail and has been a TCU member for more than 41 years, currently in Lodge 1218. Here’s what I am looking for in congressional candidates:
Last April when Local 938 Chairman Alfredo Alvarez came from California to attend a leadership seminar at the Winpisinger Center in Maryland, he met International President Bob Scardelletti. “Our members have a lot of questions that I can’t answer ,” Alvarez wrote to Scardelletti soon after. “Who better to answer these questions than you?” He
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,
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
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
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
A 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,
Click here to read the June 25, 2008 conclusions from the survey. ***** May 16, 2008—The AFL-CIO and its community affiliate, Working America, have just launched online this year’s Ask a Working Woman survey enabling union women to share workplace concerns about issues such as equal pay and stronger family and medical leave laws. Click here to
May 1, 2008—The annual Union Women Summer Schools are sponsored by the United Association for Labor Education (UALE) in cooperation with the AFL-CIO and the Coalition of Labor Union Women. At these programs union women learn and hone skills, receive new information, and network with union sisters from across their region. The Western Regional Summer
