INCLUSION--LGBT
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Published: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 15:05
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by John Campbell
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My church has been working on an “Inclusion” statement for the past few years. The statement is written above the entrance to the sanctuary now, but the pastor wishes to have a vote on “Inclusion” that goes further than the statement. I’m not sure of what he is talking about, but in a few meetings he and his wife have made us aware of his belief in same-sex marriage. The church now opposes it. The rest of the “Inclusion” part puzzles me because I never saw anyone excluded from our church or any other church that I attended.
UNION-TO BE OR NOT TO BE
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Published: Monday, April 30, 2018 18:48
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by John Campbell
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It was 1956, and, after a year of college, I was unable to afford the next year so I got a job at GE making TV sets. The pay was equal to the combined pay of my mother and father, but after some coercion from fellow workers, I joined the IUE or International Union of Electrical workers. After a year or two of layoffs, I decided to get back into school and left GE. It was not many years later that the TV Department was shut down and moved to a state without many unions. I worked at a couple of jobs after graduating but never met another union organization until I moved to West Virginia. I took a job as plant manager in a pharmaceutical company, and the workforce was unionized. It was the first time I had encountered this arrangement.
