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	<title>Gas Workers Union Local 340</title>
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		<title>Grievance &amp; Negotiating Committee Elected</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FIVE Local 340 brothers elected to the Grievance and Negotiating Committee are:  Charles McCoy, Mike Hartel, Josh Cleveland, Kendall Groenewold and Ken Moe.
Additionally Gas Workers Local 340 President Ian Brown and Vice-President Dan Justin automatically serve on the Grievance and Negotiating Committee.  These seven members will serve a one year term  starting January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musenbrock Local 340 Scholarship Winners Selected</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three $1,000  student winners of the 2011 Gas Workers Local 340 Dick Musenbrock Program were selected at the September 3rd Executive Board Meeting.   Those receiving $1,000 scholarship from Gas Workers Local 340 are:
Chelsey Schmidt, the daughter of Local 340 brother Travis Schmidt - Chelsey is a junior at University of Wisconsin, River Falls.
Mark Helgeson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GAS WORKERS LOCAL 340 RATIFY 4 YEAR CONTRACT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 15:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The membership of Gas Workers Local 340 voted to ratify a four year contract with the company.  The contract will run from April 30, 2011through April 30, 2115.   The contract includes a three per cent pay rate increase for all members each year of the four year contract (12% total) and  one and one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local 340 Members Donate Money to Food Shelf</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas Workers Local 340 members have generously donated over $1,000 to the Minneapolis Labor Community Services Working Partnership food shelf.   After each general membership meeting members had the opportunity to give part of their travel expense money to the food shelf, and they have done so with gusto.]]></description>
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		<title>New Meeting Start Time Now in Effect  &#8211;  6:30 p.m.</title>
		<link>http://www.gasworkerslocal340.com/news/199</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the February 16th General Membership Meeting a second reading and vote was taken and passed to change the start time of the General Membership and Executive Board Meetings.   The NEW  start time effective immediately is 6:30 p.m. for ALL E-Board and General Membership Meetings.]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Know? &#8211; A Little Gas Company History</title>
		<link>http://www.gasworkerslocal340.com/news/135</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.  In our company&#8217;s early years,  45 men were employed to light gas lamps in Minneapolis at night fall and  to extinguish them in the morning.   They were housed overnight on call, in dorms,  because if the moon became visible to illuminate the city they were required to put out the gas lights to save on fuel.  Conversely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Glance at 340&#8242;s Past</title>
		<link>http://www.gasworkerslocal340.com/history/125</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the general membership meeting of our union on April 21, 1943, a motion was made and carried to allow the relatively unknown labor candidate Humphries,  running for Minneapolis Mayor,  to speak before our union.  Apparently Humphries was well received as the union meeting minutes note that &#8220;Humphries was highly applauded by the members after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Important to Know Your Rights!</title>
		<link>http://www.gasworkerslocal340.com/news/83</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Called into a possible investigative review with management?  You have the right to have union representation at that meeting and may decline participation in the meeting until your union representative is present.  This is covered under what is known as &#8220;Weingarten Rights&#8221;.  Local 340 strongly encourages you to always have a union representative present at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local 340 Votes to Accept Pension Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local 340 members voted at a special general membership meeting on September 3 to accept the changes to our pension proposed by the company. CenterPoint executives from Houston and Minneapolis attended this meeting at the union hall and offered a presentation relating to the why, what, and how of the pension modifications. A vote was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little Service Dept. History</title>
		<link>http://www.gasworkerslocal340.com/history/93</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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  By the late 1890s the first gas range sale by the company occurred.  Agree to pay for 20,000 cubic feet of gas in advance and receive a free gas range &#8211; 1,400 new ranges were sold and installed by the company.
In 1916 the company installed the first gas furnace in the home of Dr. [...]]]></description>
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