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Membership Meeting
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· Aug 13, 2008
Membership Meeting
We are located approximately 1.1 miles north of the Capital Beltway (Route 495).
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· Sep 10, 2008
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· Oct 8, 2008
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What it means to be black in America
Sonya Freeman, an iReporter from New York, says the black community is still struggling with the legacy of slavery. "It's not just bad decision-making. It was a whole set of values that were not learned, so they can't be passed down," she said. Georgian Vince Priester said CNN's "Black in...
News Item · CNN Top Stories · Jul 24, 2008
Feds: Violations led to fatal Utah mine collapse
The U.S. government Thursday announced its highest ever penalty for coal mine safety violations, $1.85 million, for a collapse that killed six miners in Utah last year. The government fined the mine operator $1.34 million "for violations that directly contributed" to their deaths.
News Item · CNN US · Jul 24, 2008
Obama presses Europe on Afghanistan in Berlin
BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama urged Europe to stand by the United States in stabilizing Afghanistan in a speech to over 200,000 in Berlin that stressed the need for unity in the face of new threats.
News Item · Reuters · Jul 24, 2008
Minimum Wage Gets Second Boost After Decade of Roadblocks
Some 13 million low-wage U.S. workers got a pay raise today when the federal minimum wage rose from $5.85 to $6.55 an hour.
The pay hike was the second step of the three-step minimum wage increase Congress passed last year, the first such increase since 1997. The third step, to $7.25 an hour,...
News Item · AFL-CIO Blog · Jul 24, 2008
Obama Supports Pro-Worker Policies—and Union Members Support Obama
In his video introduction submitted to last year's AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum, Sen. Barack Obama laid out some of his personal history and connected it to why he’s running for president. It’s worth watching again now that he’s the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee. As...
News Item · AFL-CIO Blog · Jul 24, 2008
Around Country, Union Members Keep Up the Pressure on McCain
As John McCain tours the country, wherever he goes, he’s met by his biggest fear: a contingent of educated, mobilized union members who know his record. Over the past week, he’s been greeted again and again by union members demanding real answers to the issues facing the country.
In New...
News Item · AFL-CIO Blog · Jul 24, 2008
Pennsylvania Seniors Tell McCain: Don’t Mess with Social Security
If John McCain had a chance to take a break from his presidential campaign stop in Wilkes-Barre yesterday and put his feet up to watch a little TV, he would have gotten an earful and an eyeful over his recent remarks calling Social Security a "disgrace" and his support of privatization.
The...
News Item · AFL-CIO Blog · Jul 24, 2008
With Eye On U.S. Audience, Obama Speaks In Berlin
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's speech in Berlin Thursday dealt with road foreign policy issues. But the address was more to convince American voters of his foreign policy credentials than to impress foreign leaders.
News Item · NPR News · Jul 24, 2008
In Berlin, Obama Calls For Anti-Terror Cooperation
Sen. Barack Obama delivered a speech in Berlin on Wednesday, calling for greater cooperation between Europe and the United States in fighting terrorism. The speech was billed by his campaign as a centerpiece of his trip abroad.
News Item · NPR News · Jul 24, 2008