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Union Refuses To Pay For Funeral

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - A Santee family called KUSI's Michael Turko when they ran into a brick wall at a local labor union. Turko says they were shunned by union officials after their dad passed away last month.

Here's a guy who believed in labor unions all his life, he was a card carrying member of Operating Engineers Local Twelve since the middle of the last century. But when he passed away three weeks ago, union leaders turned their back on him and his family. And now they're refusing to pay for his funeral, all because of a fifty dollar mistake!

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