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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #74</title>
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Bargaining Bulletin #74
Thursday, July 30, 2009
1 Union 1 Fight 1 Future
We have been working hard to narrow the issues that prevent us from reaching an agreement. The remaining items are Health Care, Premises Technician issues and Service Rep issues. The entire committee has spent untold hours arguing and pursuing a fair and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #73</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #73
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Your Bargaining Committee, along with the National Leadership, is continuing to work to narrow the gap. Informal discussions are taking place at several levels.
We know the lack of detail in our reports is frustrating, but bargaining is at a particularly sensitive stage and we will report more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #72</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #72
Friday, July 17, 2009
We have worked hard to narrow the gap moving towards an overall agreement. It is time for the Company to live up to their commitments to close that gap.
The UNION&#8217;S STRENGTH lies with its MEMBERS. Contract gains are
not won at the bargaining table; they are won away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #71</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #71
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The last few days we have continued to meet with the company in formal sessions. We continue to make progress, but are still far apart on major issues. District 9 Vice President Jim Weitkamp sent the following message to the locals:
By now you have all received the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #70</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #70
Monday, July 13, 2009
Your committee has been busy since our last report. We met in both formal and informal sessions with the company last week, over the weekend and into Sunday evening. We continue to make incremental progress, but it has been tedious and difficult. We have reached tentative agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #69</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #69
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Bargaining has once again slowed to an agonizing pace. Inasmuch as the company does not appear ready to make any substantive movement on key issues, the decision has been made to return home for the weekend. We have been available continuously for over 130 days and have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #68</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #68
Friday, June 26, 2009
Since our last report, we have been working on Employment Security, Prem Tech, and Health Care issues. We are still very far apart on those key items. While progress has been made on some portions of the contract, there will be no settlement without a lot more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #67</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #67
Monday, June 22, 2009
Our committee spent the weekend in caucus, both reviewing issues and developing bargaining proposals that will move us forward. Meetings of the full committee have taken place today and will continue tomorrow to discuss the entire range of unresolved issues.
We have reached a critical stage in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #66</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #66
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Your bargaining committee has continued meeting with the company day and night in informal discussions, “concept discussions” in an effort to get agreements on issues that can be reduced to writing and to continue narrowing the issues.
In order to keep bargaining moving in a positive direction, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bargaining Bulletin #65</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Bargaining Bulletin #65
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Your Bargaining Committee has continued to work to narrow the differences on many items. We have been meeting with the company in sub-committee and informal sessions and had a number of meetings with the CWA Research Department to analyze changes from our discussions on healthcare.
We have entered [...]]]></description>
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