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GOOD JOBS, GREEN JOBS CONFERENCE NEXT WEEK IN DC: The Blue-Green Alliance, whose members now include CWA, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and SEIU - in addition to existing members  United Steelworkers and Sierra Club - is
holding its annual Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference
at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel in Washington next week
February 4-6. Featured speakers include Kansas Governor Kathleen
Sebelius and MN Congressman Keith Ellison, among others. A Green
Jobs Expo will also provide networking opportunities for job
seekers. Registration is $125.- ILCA Insider LEARNING TO
MEDIATE: Learn skills to help resolve conflicts at the
basic mediation skills training at the National Labor College
March 9-13. Supported by local labor FASTER (AND CHEAPER)
TAX RETURNS: Union members get a 15% discount when
filing federal and state taxes online through Union Plus Turbo
Tax. “Turbo Tax was rated best tax product by TODAY’S LABOR
HISTORY: Responding to unrest among workers building
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, Pres. Andrew Jackson orders first
use of American troops to suppress a labor dispute
(1828); Six thousand railway workers strike for
union and end of 18-hour day (1889); Sit-down
strike helps establish United Rubber Workers as a national
union, Akron, Ohio (1936); American Train
Dispatchers Department granted a charter by the AFL-CIO
(1957); More info & ammo for unionists is
available online from LABOR PHOTO: The Labor Inaugural Parade Float. Photo by National Education Association, courtesy of ChangetoWin Connect & the ILCA Insider Material published in UNION CITY may be freely reproduced by
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organizations, the course - presented
by Alternative Resolutions - develops skills that can be used in
the workplaces, families and communities. 
PC Magazine in 2008,” says Union
Privilege’s Jennifer Wright Dorr. “The program
allows you the option to E-file, where your refund will usually
be issued in about half the time it would take if you filed a
paper return”. 
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