Virginia’s 70-year work run ends not in rest but in McDonald’s lobby
Fairfield native Virginia, a pioneering executive with a 1940 Iowa State degree, built a 40-year career across Union Electric General Mills Admiral Whirlpool and Younkers before joining McDonald’s Iowa City in 1989. She loved talking to customers and keeping tenure in a college town, working 10 hours weekly.
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Hibrai bike ride to Des Moines planned with flat pace
Dickinson, who rode in a grueling Ragbrai, says Hibrai offers riders a mostly flat three day route. The first leg heads to Tama then Marshalltown and Nevada in Story County, with day three ending in Des Moines. He notes few towns would undertake such a route.
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Hiawatha could host RAGBRAI site at Guthridge Park
RAGBRAI organizers weigh community fit including traffic and safety factors. Hiawatha proposes a 20 acre Guthridge Park site between North 10th Avenue and I 380 with overflow on adjacent lands and nearby undeveloped 30 acre park. Contact City Hall at (319) 393-1515 or writer Frank Gluck at (319) 988-3100.
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Slain Sioux City family to be buried Tuesday
Funeral plans set for Leticia Aguilar and her five children after they were found dead. Donna Stabile, the babysitter, described the victims and said the family attended church regularly. A new children’s wing and social center may be named in their memory.
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Unions see opening as economy shifts and politics align
Lawrence Lorber notes today’s economic uncertainty creates union opportunities as labor gains sympathy in AP poll. Unions have allied with Republicans to back oil drilling in Alaska and Bush’s steel mill visit signals bipartisan labor engagement.
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Unions Push Immigration Legalization Amid Campaign Push
Unions led by AFL-CIO shift policy to support legalization for illegal immigrants. Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, SEIU and United Farm Workers join in outreach as Bush meets Mexican President Vicente Fox. Advertising drives activist pressure with calls, letters, and emails.
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Unions mobilize against Bush trade agenda and labor reforms
The Teamsters and AFL-CIO press to Congress against expanded trade authority for Bush with bus tours to Alabama California Indiana and Texas Mexicans trucks debate moves to the House. Labor Secretary decision on ergonomic rules looms as Scalia nomination faces hearings. Oklahoma right to work vote set for Sept 25 and Nissan Smyrna UFCW seeks an election while minimum wage potential rises this fall.
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