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Delegates Approve Constitutional Amendments, Re-elect Officers

September 16, 2009

New Haven, CT
Wednesday Afternoon, September 16

Pres. Hovis called on Carl Rosen (Western Region) and Marie Lausch (222) to present the proposed amendments to the UE Constitution. Most of these had to do with the union’s finances, per capita and dues structure, and the pay of officers and staff members. All of the amendments approved by the convention must then be referred to the UE locals, where they are subject to membership vote.

Republic Windows CEO Arrested for Crimes in Looting and Closing Plant

September 10, 2009
Chicago

Richard Gillman, the former chief executive of Republic Windows and Doors, has been arrested and charged with numerous financial crimes related to last December’s plant closing, including looting the company and defrauding creditors.  The abrupt plant closing provoked a successful six-day plant occupation by members of UE Local 1110.

Gillman was charged with eight felony counts under Illinois law, including financial crime and conspiracy, money laundering, fraud insolvency, theft with intent to control more than $500,000, mail fraud and wire fraud.

Contract Extended, with Wage Increase, No Layoffs, as New Fairfield Schools Caught in Budget Squeeze

August 20, 2009
New Fairfield, CT

The school custodians, maintenance workers and groundskeepers in New Fairfield, Connecticut were prepared for some tough bargaining as 2009 approached. Their current contract was set to expire on June 30, and the town has a long history of making negotiations difficult.

UE Leaders Deliver Message to Congress: Wells Fargo is a Roadblock to Recovery!

July 30, 2009
Washington
Marie Lausch, president of Connecticut statewide UE Local 222 and a member of UE’s General Executive Board, and Bob South, president of UE Local 234, trustee of the national union, and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives, on their way to deliver a stack of petitions more than two inches thick to both the House and Senate

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