For years Amalgamated Bank was closely tied to Bruce Raynor, the pugnacious former president of the Service Employees International Union.

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The survey listed Amalgamated Bank, BMW Bank, Capital One, Discover and Tompkins Trust as charging no fee for purchases made abroad.

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The plaintiffs include Amalgamated Bank and several municipal and union pension funds.

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Trustees of Amalgamated Bank of New York and the Central Laborers Pension Fund, which are both News Corp shareholders, first filed a lawsuit in March 2011.

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"We are proud of this historic settlement, which continues the 20 year history of Amalgamated Bank encouraging corporate reform and improved corporate governance, " Amalgamated Bank president and chief executive Edward Grebow said in a statement.

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Earlier this year, two other AOL Time Warner shareholders - the University of California and the Amalgamated Bank's Long View Collective Investment Fund - alleged in a lawsuit that some of the firm's top executives boosted its share price through bogus transactions.

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