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- From: Joe.Russ <Joe.Russ@mixcom.mixcom.com>
- Subject: More problems for the WC in buying the GB&W and FRVR
- Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:18:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.021812.11438@mixcom.com>
- Sender: ffvvff@mixcom.com (Joe Russ)
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- Thought I'd pass along the following to everyone here in netland:
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- From t Business Section of the Jan. 26, 1993 Milwaukee Journal]
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- ACQUISITION DETOURED: The Interstate Comerce Commission said it would
- orde Wisconsin Central Transportation Co. to negotiate with the United
- Transportation Union before it could complete its purchase of the
- Green Bay & Western and Fox River Valley Railroads, according to
- Wisconsin Central executive vice president Thomas Power and Edwrd
- Garvey, an attorney for the union, which represents workers at the
- Green Bay & Western. Fox River Valley workers are scheduled to vote on
- union representation by Feb. 5. Wisconsin Central orkers are not
- unionized.
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- Also, I head the following Bessemer & Lake Erie units were heading
- north on the WC today: SD38 861, SD38 862 & SD38AC 865. Also in the
- consist was WC GP30 707 and 2 SD45's and a GP40.
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