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Scholarships Available For 2018 Academic Year

Scholarship money.

The following scholarships are available for the 2018 academic year: ATU Scholarship: The deadline for this scholarship is January 31, 2018. The 2018 ATU Scholarship is in remembrance of Tommy Douglas. This year, five $8,000 scholarships will be awarded, and an additional $2,000 scholarship will be awarded to a vocational school applicant.  Click here to download the application. …

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Don’t Miss Wednesday’s (10/18) All-Union Lobby Day

All retirees and members (who are not working) are strongly encouraged to attend Wednesday’s (10/18) all-union rally. Please share!

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Letter to the Editor: Pacheco Law helps taxpayers know how their money is spent

Sen. Marc R. Pacheco

Boston Globe | October 12, 2017 In response to your recent editorial “The Pacheco dividends at the T,” I am impelled, once again, to lay out some facts regarding the Taxpayer Protection Act, or the Pacheco Law. The law was enacted in 1993 to protect the Commonwealth from the waste, fraud, and abuse that routinely took place as …

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