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        -- Handling Grievances
        -- Insubordination Checklist
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        -- Suggestions for Presenting the Grievance
        -- A Dozen Points on Grievance Presentation
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        -- Preparing Discipline Cases
        -- When the Member Doesn't Have a Grievance
        -- Get It in Writing
        -- Nobody's Perfect
        -- What is a Grievance?
        -- Handling Grievances
        -- Writing a Grievance
        -- Dozen Points on Grievance Presentation
        -- Key Tasks for Stewards
        -- Goals of a Union Steward
        -- Listening to Others
        -- The Steward's Role at a Hearing
        -- The Disciplinary Interview
        -- Resolving Issues Early
        -- What Does "No" Really Mean
        -- How Can They Make My Life Miserable?
        -- Ten Rules to Prepare Witnesses for the Grievance Hearing
        -- New Stewards Take Note
        -- Documenting Discipline: What the Bosses Do
        -- Ten Mistakes Every Steward Should Never Make
        -- Insubordination -- A Dozen Questions to Ask
        -- Conquering the problem of time
        -- Top 10 List for TWU Members
        -- The Steward Team
        -- Do I Take the Grievant With Me?
        -- Do We Really Need Arbitration?
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        -- 10 Rules in Grievance Writing
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        -- How to File Those Railroad Greivances
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