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  Two union leaders accuse Gephardt staffer of making threats
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News DateFriday, December 5, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
Description"Two top union presidents accused one of Rep. Richard Gephardt's senior campaign advisers Wednesday of threatening political retribution if the unions' Missouri members campaigned for Howard Dean, Gephardt's Democratic presidential rival.

Gerald McEntee and Andrew Stern, presidents of two of the largest AFL-CIO unions, demanded in a sharply worded letter that Gephardt fire Joyce Aboussie, his campaign vice chair, saying she issued an "ultimatum" to their unions during a meeting Monday in St. Louis County that also included Gov. Bob Holden.

Aboussie suggested that she would take steps to get a key collective bargaining order for state workers rescinded if the two unions tried to help Dean in Missouri, McEntee and Stern said."
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