MEMOS FROM OUR MEMBERS

Cartoonist remembered

The Editor:

I enjoyed Roy LaBerge's review of The Carless Cartoon Collection in your April issue. It brought back fond memories of the days in Hamilton when Roy Carless drew so many outstanding cartoons for the Steelworkers' Local 1005 newsletter Steel Shots while I was the editor.

I had a close relationship with Roy Carless. All 1 had to do was give him a week's notice of our journal's theme for the current month and he would draw an excellent appropriate panel. Every cartoon he did for me was a Steel Shots original and he helped me win may CALM and ILPA awards.

I haven't seen Roy since I moved from Hamilton to Vancouver in 1992, but will …

BBVA to study acquisitions in Latin America - report.

(ADPnews) - Mar 29, 2011 - Spanish commercial bank BBVA (MCE:BBVA) will study acquisitions by itself or with partners in Latin America, BBVA's head for the region, Vicente Rodero, told the Reuters Latin American Investment Summit.

The region will continue being a main earnings driver for the Spanish bank in 2011, he said.

As for the non-organic growth, there could be some opportunities but the …

Suit tells of trouble in airport security; Fired TSA worker claims harassment, retaliation in Colonie.(Main)(Correction notice)

Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON - Staff Writer

ALBANY - David Erickson earned two Bronze Stars for heroism in the first Gulf War, leading a tank brigade of 300 soldiers and 150 vehicles into battle. Back on American soil, though, in 2003, the 47-year-old retired major found himself waging a very different war, this one, allegedly, against three supervisors intent on harassing employees at Albany International Airport.

Erickson, of Altamont, is suing U.S. Department of Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff, claiming he was fired from a job as a Transportation Security Administration screener manager at the Colonie facility because he wouldn't go along with the harassment.

Subsequently, Erickson himself was targeted and fired, because he objected to, and reported, the hostile work environment, according to court …