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,
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
Tentative agreements were reached Friday, May 23, 2008 for ARASA product line supervisors at Amtrak, as well as for clerks and on board service workers there. Ratification packets are being sent to involved members; ballots must be received at TCU headquarters by June 27 to be counted. Any involved member who has not
Click here to read the agreement signed March 9, 2008.
June 19, 2008—According to the carrier, all medical, dental and rail pass benefits have been terminated for dependents of those union members who did not respond to the numerous requests from insurance company Aetna for dependent information. To check benefits status or get further information, call Aetna at 877-277-3368.
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
