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Message: <blockquote data-quote="804brown" data-source="post: 1303563" data-attributes="member: 29553"><p>Imagine that... a local that wants to educate their rank and file members.  Unthinkable to Old Guard mentality.  As for who paid, I believe Local 804 has a Ron Carey Education Fund set up when they got in (like they promised when they ran) to take members interested in getting involved and educated.  Members go to these conventions and seminars and go back to their centers energized and wanting to spread the good word how "they are not alone" ...there actually are others fighting the good fight.  They learn strategies that other activist members and other activist locals use and they come back and apply them where they work.  Its how you take back your local from the Old Guard.  It worked here in local 804!!</p></blockquote><p></p>