Benson promised not to raise dues and re-open union offices, while Sheedy admitted a dues hike might be necessary in 1999 . In June 1997, Benson defeated Sheedy by a vote of 11, 407 to 8, 956.
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Praising the federal board's October decision to temporarily open Union Pacific rails to competitors, Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Charles Matthews told the federal panel that " much bolder steps are needed to resolve this crisis and to prevent its reoccurrence ."
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Act 10 allowed for the possibility for districts to re-open union contracts to take advantage of the tools available in the act if the union membership chose to do so up to three months after the bill was signed into law.
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The Committee also wished to open union membership to African-Americans in localities that had excluded them from membership through clauses in their constitutions, by-laws and rituals or had " covertly discriminate against the Negro worker by practices more eloquent and effective than pronouncements, resolutions, or Constitutions can ever be ".
