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UE members were among the 5,000 people who protested in Chicago on October 10 against national meetings of the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Futures Industry Association - two segments of the financial industry that have done a lot to ruin the economy for working people. |
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| UE delegates had plenty to cheer in a busy and very successful five-day convention. |
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| UE Cartoonist Gary Huck presents John Hovis with his caricature as a retirement gift. |
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| Benedicto Martinez of the FAT presents John with a gift from his union. |
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| Secretary-Treasurer Bruce Klipple reports on UE's finances. |
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| Aaron Hughes of Iraq Veterans Against the War delivered an enlightening and moving speech to the delegates. |
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| Members of the UE Young Activist Program were recognized during the Organizing Report. |
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Nearly 250 workers at the Vermont Service Center located in St. Albans and Essex gained UE representation on September 21 in an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (UE). The vote was 176 to 38 in favor of UE, the largest union victory in Vermont to date this year.
"We are happy because the Union will give the contracted workers some stability. It's about time this happened," said Lynn Corbett, a general clerk at the St. Albans facility.
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| Autumn Martinez, chief steward of UE Local 255, leads the chants as UE convention delegates march through Downtown Pittsburgh. |
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| UE Young Activists march through Pittsburgh's Market Square. |
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| Local 208 and 1008 representatives at a bargaining session in Vermont, from left: Greg Wright, Joe Holmes, Dawn Rabideau, Noemi Dickerhoff, Henri Tran, Bentley Derr, Jeanette Weiland and Lisa Stenta. |
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