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On September 29 , Teamsters Local 618 marched with Michigan Nurses from Local 332 in Flint, Michigan. Registered nurses from Ascension Health’s Genesys Regional Medical Center in Flint, Mich. rallied outside of Ascension Health’s corporate headquarters in St. Louis today, where they protested cuts that would alter working conditions and impact direct patient care. The nurses are members of Local 332 in Flint and were joined by advocates from Missouri Jobs with Justice and other community leaders.

"The nurses at Genesys see the care and safety of their patients as the highest priority, but the cuts in nursing and support staff are dramatically increasing their workloads. They are struggling to follow the Code of Ethics for Nurses, which states that nurses must strive to protect the health, safety and rights of their patients," said Nina Bugbee, President of Teamsters Local 332 in Flint. "The code of ethics also states that nurses must participate in improving conditions of employment conducive to the provision of quality health care. These RNs should be able to give feedback about changes to the delivery of care, but Ascension refuses to listen."

This year’s proposed cuts by Ascension Health come on the heels of earlier cuts Local 332 members successfully fought against. Last year, licensed nurses and technicians fought 10 months for a fair contract at Genesys. The hospital had wanted to cut their wages and eliminate the health care protections that had been promised to retired workers.

Four members of Local 100 Joined in this Rally:

Secretary-Treasurer, Sam Bucalo; Business Agent, David Hibbard, Steward, Mike Simmonds and Steward, Nick Wainscott

Grant Application Process Open for Non-Profits and Unions that Serve Women

  here. Social justice and women’s rights non-profits that exist outside of union structures can apply here. (This list of 2011 grantees offers a sense of what kinds of efforts the foundation funds.)All of Me,” a Tin Pan Alley standard that has been recorded by singers ranging from Billie Holliday to Frank Sinatra, not to mention Nnenna Freelon, Diana Krall and Michael Bublé.)here. For more on the Berger-Marks Foundation and its grant-making programs, click here.

Even in the labor movement, the path for women is not always smooth or obvious. With its call for applications for grants, the Berger-Marks Foundation aims to open new doors to women and is looking to help a few good organizations fund their efforts to develop and serve women in the labor movement.

The foundation funds programs, projects and organizing campaigns by groups within unions and labor federations, as well as freestanding women’s and social justice organizations. The aim is to broaden the involvement of women in the labor movement, and to promote their needs and concerns.

The 2012 application process is now open, and runs through the March 15 deadline. The application for union-affiliated groups is

The Berger-Marks Foundation is named for Edna Berger, the first woman lead organizer for The Newspaper Guild-CWA, and her husband, songwriter Gerald Marks, whose fortune from song royalties formed the foundation’s original endowment. (Marks co-wrote “

Edna Berger’s storied career in the labor movement began with her demand for a $5 raise she was due when she won a promotion from the position of receptionist to secretary at the Philadelphia Inquirer, which the paper refused to grant her. When her boss, Emile Gauvreau, backed up her claim, the Inquirer fired him. The year was 1941. Three years later, Berger became an international representative for the Newspaper Guild — the first woman to ever hold the title — and was a tireless labor organizer and advocate for women’s rights until her death in 1996.

CENTRAL STATES REEMPLOYMENT RULES REVISED

New Exemption for Qualified Post-Age 65 Retirees

Effective immediately, the Trustees of the Central States Pension Fund, have approved a change to the reemployment rules which exempts qualified age 65 or older retirees from the Pension Fund's reemployment rules and allows them to work in any position for an unlimited number of hours. To qualify for th e POST-AGE 65 exemption to reemployment rules, an age 65 or older retiree MUST meet two conditions:

(1) the retire must have been retired and receiving a pension benefit for at least 12 months, and

(2) the retiree must not have worked in any "Restricted Reemployment" for at least 12 consecutive months immediately preceding age 65 (or if retirement date is after age 65, 12 consecutive months immediately preceding the retirement date).

ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS NEW EXEMPTION SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE CENTRAL STATES PENSION FUND BY CALLING 1-800-323-5000.

AMERICAN INCOME LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS

As a member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. 100, you are provided – at NO COST – a $3,000 Accidental Death and Dismemberment benefit through American Income Life Insurance Company, a 100% Union Label Company that has been serving union members and their families for more than 50 years. This benefit provides coverage to all members.

Other NO-COST benefits provided through American Income Partners Plan Health Services Discount Card. This card provides discounts – at point of service – of up to 60% on vision care, hearing care, prescriptions and chiropractic care. (Optional dental discounts are available). Identification Kit, a valuable tool that helps parents gather vital information for use by authorities to search for a missing child. The kit is endorsed by the International Union of Police Associations, the American Federation of School Administrators and American Federation of Teachers.

Child Safe Family Information Guide. This document gives working families a place to catalog important information such as beneficiaries, estate data, professional contacts and health records.

Official notice about these benefits has been mailed to all IBT Local 100 members. Those who return the reply card will be contacted by an AIL representative to arrange a convenient time to deliver their no-cost benefits.

American Income Life to IBT Local 100 members are: Voluntary supplemental insurance benefits are also available to IBT Local 100 members through American Income Life and are provided in the spirit of "Be Union ~ Buy Union." 

For more information, contact local benefits coordinator Anna Guido Rohrer at:                           aguido-rohrer@ailife.com

 

Enclosed is the latest issue of your AIL/NILICO Labor Letter & Agenda. In this issue, we feature the members of the AIL/NILICO Labor Advisory Board, highlighted by a column by board chairman James Williams, General President, International Union of Painters & Allied Trades, who explains the activities and purpose of the board. You may reprint items of interest with credit to the AIL/NILICO Labor Letter & Agenda. You can also send comments and suggestions for future newsletters with an email to the editor. VSKamber@ailife.com Please encourage your co-workers and colleagues to register for the online edition of the AIL/NILICO Labor Letter & Agenda at www.ailnews.com. Your no-cost subscription to the newsletter is provided as a service of AIL/NILICO. Regards, Victor Kamber AIL/NILICO Vice President Executive Director, AIL/NILICO Labor Advisory Board Publisher, AIL/NILICO Labor Letter   American Income Life Insurance Company 1701 K Street, N.W., Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 833-2030 JAMES WILLIAMS, President - International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Chairman - AIL Labor Advisory Board VICTOR KAMBER, Vice President - American Income Life Insurance Company, Executive Director - AIL Labor Advisory Board ROGER SMITH, Chief Executive Officer - American Income Life Insurance Company, President - AIL/NILICO Labor Advisory Board DENISE BOWYER, Vice President - American Income Life Insurance Company, Secretary - AIL Labor Advisory Board    February 2012, Vol. 44 No. 1 News From the AFL-CIO, CtW, International & National Unions In a behind-the-scenes story, organized labor and its allies in December launched a successful, intensive pressure campaign in the home districts of congressional Republicans who refused to approve a Senate plan to extend a payroll tax cut and jobless aid. The AFL-CIO, international and national unions and other advocacy groups such as Working America and the National Employment Law Project worked to push the Republicans into eventually voting for the two-month deal which expires at the end of Feb. AFL-CIO spokesperson Amaya Tune said labor hit them "in the media in their home districts" and other ways to "shame Republicans for this horrible vote." The National Employment Law Project, for example, mobilized thousands of its constituents from unemployed Americans to community advocates to call Republican lawmakers. Other labor organizers also held a protest outside Republican House Speaker John Boehner's office in Ohio. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union hailed the decision of the Netherlands' largest pension fund to withdraw its investments from Walmart. UFCW President Joseph T. Hansen described the action as a "wake-up call" for the company to start treating its employees better. Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (ABP), with more than $300 billion in assets, cited the world's biggest retail chain's labor practices as the reason. The fund said it was pulling out of Walmart because it hasn't complied with the United Nations Global Compact principles, which promote human rights, labor standards, and environment and anticorruption efforts. The fund had invested $121 million in the retailer as of June 2011. According to news reports, ABP's decision was four years in the making, having first warned Walmart about its labor practices in 2008. In 2006, Norway's Government Pension Fund sold more than $400 million shares in Walmart, also in a rejection of the company's labor practices. On the left AFA President Veda Shook. Flickr.com photo used under Creative Commons from aflcio. The Association of Flight Attendants- CWA, AFL-CIO (AFA) January 6 filed with the National Mediation Board (NMB) for a union election to represent U.S.-based flight attendants for Aer Lingus. Aer Lingus Limited and United Airlines entered a joint venture in 2009 for a flight between Washington, DC and Madrid. Aer Lingus employs the workers based in Washington, DC. "This joint venture was dreamed up by management for the sole purpose of avoiding the legal obligations of a contract and a commitment to workers," said AFA International President Veda Shook. Aer Lingus flight attendants in Ireland are unionized as are United's 25,000 flight attendants. Veda said U.S.-based Aer Lingus flight attendants preform the same duties as their Irish and United counterparts, but do not receive the same pay, benefits and work rule protections. Shay Cody, General Secretary of IMPACT, the union that represents flight attendants at Aer Lingus in Ireland and England, pledged "the full support of the IMPACT Trade Union" for the AFA organizing drive. Laborers International Union General President Terry O'Sullivan called on Congress to "get serious" about passing a Highway Bill that "fully invests in rebuilding our deteriorating bridges, roads and transit systems." He noted that at a time when the national jobless rate is dropping, construction industry unemployment rose from Failing Bridge. Flickr.com photo used under Creative Commons from mihradio. 13.1 percent in November to 16 percent in December. "Such a jump indicates many long-term, jobless workers who gave up hope looking for work last year have started looking again," he said. O'Sullivan criticized "too many Republicans in Congress" who did nothing but "play politics, even as working families suffered." He warned that the hopes of discouraged workers to find jobs "may be disappointingly dashed" unless Congress takes meaningful action in 2012. "There's a lot of work to be done, and 1.3 million construction workers who, based on today's jobs numbers, are ready to do it," he said. More than 200 Teamsters in Pennsylvania and West Virginia walked off their jobs in early January following a breakdown in negotiations with the Pipe Line Contractors Association. According to the union, the national agreement between the Teamsters and the contractors expired Jan. 31, 2011, but was extended twice, ultimately expiring Dec. 31. The Teamsters said the contractors association wants to force its members into a 401(k) savings plan and ultimately eliminate all traditional defined benefit pensions. "The association's ultimate goal is to gut workers' security and gamble their retirement in the stock market with a 401(k) plan," said James J. Hoffa, Teamsters general president. "This is yet another example of the rich getting richer on the backs of the middle class." The strike halted work on projects related to the Marcellus Shale play in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and could lead to stoppages across the country. "But this is a national strike that could expand to other sites as the days go on," Hoffa said. International Labor News Nearly ten thousand employees of the Chengdu Steel & Vanadium Company (CSVC) in Sichuan province went on strike January 4 over pay raises. According to news reports, workers complained that public servants in government organizations receive pay raises every year, which raises the country's overall consumer demand. However, wages of company employees are relatively low and seriously lag behind expenses. On the first day of the strike, some 5,000 workers marched from the factory to the entrance of the Chengdu-Mianyang Expressway where they were stopped by more than 1,000 policemen. Three workers were injured and five arrested after police dispersed the crowd with force and the use of pepper spray. News reports said 2,000 workers from the Sichuan Chemical Engineering Group Company (CEGC) located in the same area as CSVC went on strike December 30 and blocked traffic. They won monthly salary and annual bonus increases. TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber. Flickr.com photo used under Creative Commons from tuc.org. United Kingdom's Trade Union Council dismissed assertions from the Prime Minister's Office that UK business are in a "stranglehold" of health and safety rules and compensation claims. "Every government report on the UK's supposed compensation culture has shown it to be a myth, and in fact claims have been declining over the past decade. Despite this, the government seems hellbent on trying to stop workers injured by their employers' negligence being able to claim compensation," said TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber. "It is clear that Downing Street does not have a clue about what life is like for the millions of ordinary people who work in shops, offices, schools, factories, call centers and other workplaces across the UK. Instead it is making policy in response to grumbles from elements of the small business lobby and the risible rantings of right-wing commentators." Nigerian workers began a national strike January 9 after the government scrapped fuel subsidies at a time when fuel costs have more than doubled. The strike, called by the Nigeria Labor Congress and the Trade Union Congress, the country's biggest labor union federations, threatened to close ports and disrupt output from Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron Corp. Nigeria is Africa's largest crude producer. "The objective is that the government must reverse the fuel price increases before we end the strike," Owei Lakemfa, secretary-general of the Nigeria Labor Congress, told the news media. Banks, businesses, schools and most offices were shut and streets deserted except for protesters in Lagos, the West African nation's economic center, and Abuja, the capital. Nigeria produced an average 2.2 million barrels of crude a day in December, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, and is the fifth-largest provider of oil imports to the U.S. National & Political Events All of the Republican candidates for president share a deep antipathy to organized labor and the right of workers to engage in collective bargaining. Their anti-union attitudes have been on display during the GOP presidential debates and in their campaign ads as each has tried to out-do the other by demonizing unions. In Iowa, Newt Gringrich blamed the auto unions for the problems of the U.S. auto industry. Leading candidate Mitt Romney has repeatedly attacked the independent National Labor Relations Board for supposedly siding with workers. "The National Labor Relations Board, now stacked with union stooges appointed by the president, says to a free enterprise like Boeing 'you can't build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a 'right to work' state," he said in one commercial in a blatantly false statement. The NLRB never issued such a ruling. Other candidates have said unions have too much power and should be curbed. President Obama threw down the gauntlet to congressional Republicans with several high-profile recess appointments. With Congress recessed for the holidays, Obama named Democrats Sharon Block and Richard Griffin and Republican Terry Flynn to the National Labor Relations Board. Without the appointments, the NLRB would not have had the required quorum to operate and make decisions due to the expiration of Craig Becker's term on January 3. AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka commended the President "for exercising his constitutional authority" to keep the board operating. Obama also appointed Richard Corday to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) after his nomination was blocked by Senate Republicans which now makes that agency operational. Signing of the Dodd-Frank bill. Flickr.com photo used under Creative Commons from Leader Nancy Pelosi's photostream. The average CEO of the top 500 corporations listed by Standard & Poor's now collects 343 times the amount in compensation as the median paycheck received by workers, according to newly released statistics. But a new group has formed to blunt public criticism of the nation's top one percent in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The so-called Job Creators Alliance (JCA) offers speakers and media booking services for 17 featured business leaders who say they aim to "shape the national agenda," according to the JCA website. Among the alliance's founding members is Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot. JCA is particularly targeting the Dodd-Frank bill that requires publiclytraded corporations to disclose the ratio between their CEO's compensation and the median pay package given employees. Regional & Local Labor News United Steelworkers Union called for congressional and state hearings to investigate the proposed closure of three Philadelphia area refineries and the subsequent replacement of U.S. oil production with oil imports. As reported in a union statement, Sunoco announced in September that its Philadelphia and Marcus Hook, PA refineries would close in July 2012 if a buyer was not found. On December 1 the company announced it was shutting down its Marcus Hook refinery because of poor margins. At the end of September, ConocoPhillips announced it was immediately idling its Trainer, PA refinery. The union said the closures will have negative effects on employment and Northeast oil product supplies and prices "Among the impact issues being cited will be the fuel oil needs of the Northeast for heating, diesel, jet and auto fuel; direct employment of 2,500 workers plus thousands of other jobs dependent on the refineries; and national economic security when supplies will have to come from imports, which are subject to uncontrolled price hikes and shortages that cause price spikes," the union said. Ohio AFL-CIO predicted the 30-cent increase in the state minimum wage to $7.70 hourly on January 1 will provide a much-needed boost to the local economy. The state labor federation and Ohioans for a Fair Minimum Wage coalition successfully placed a constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2006 which tied Ohio's minimum wage rate to the Consumer Price Index. The CPI increased more than 4 percent, which led to the wage hike. "After over a decade without a minimum wage increase, Ohioans overwhelmingly passed the amendment taking rate increases out of the hands of politicians and adjusting them in a fair and reasonable manner," said Ohio AFL-CIO President Tim Burga in a prepared statement. He said minimum wage earners are "essentially just surviving" and the increase will help lift all wages. "These modest increases can generate revenue for our local economies - something we are in desperate need of here in Ohio," he said. In the Public Sector Federal union leaders reacted tepidly to President Obama's proposed 0.5 percent federal employee pay raise for 2013, the first in two years. "The fact is, this increase is well below the rate of inflation of 3.6 percent, and will be wiped out by higher costs for health care, groceries and other essential needs," said American Federation of Government Employees National President John Gage. He noted the proposal also effectively freezes locality pay for another year as he urged Congress to pass a "meaningful" pay raise for federal workers. National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen M. Kelley expressed "disappointment" at the size of the proposed raises but said "the good news" is the ending of the pay freeze. She noted that private sector pay as measured by the employment cost index (ECI) has grown a total of 4.7 percent over the past three years. Flickr.com photo used under Creative Commons from matt.hintsa. The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) Local 195, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 518 reached new four-year contracts with the state of New Jersey. The pacts cover more than 5,000 state employees and are the first agreements under the Christie administration since all state workers' contracts expired in June. IFPTE represents employees at the colleges, department of transportation, human services and some areas of state police and corrections. SEIU represents approximately 190 employees at the state Motor Vehicle Commission. The pact provides no salary increases for the first two years, a 1 percent hike in year three, and a 1.75 percent increase in the fourth year, which would begin on July 1, 2014. "We have no problem with it," said Local 195 President Tim Rudolph about negotiations. "It didn't get hostile." Twelve other unions are in ongoing negotiations with the Christie administration, including the Communications Workers of America, the largest union. Significant Legal and NLRB Decisions The National Labor Relations Board ruled January 6 that employers could not prevent workers from filing work-related group or class actions, a decision opposed by many businesses. The ruling effectively bans employment agreements at companies that require workers to pursue all claims individually through arbitration.Federal law that protects workers' right to engage in concerted action overrides any arbitration agreement that bars them from bringing group claims, the board determined. The decision applies to all nonmanagement private sector workers, union and non-union, from low-wage janitors to higher paid workers. "The board has long held, with uniform judicial approval, that the N.L.R.A. protects employees' ability to join together to pursue workplace grievances, including through litigation," the ruling said. The board issued the decision in a case involving a nationwide homebuilding company, D. R. Horton, in which workers were required to waive their right to sue in court and instead bring all claims to an arbitrator on an individual basis. Although it is an independent agency, the National Labor Relations Board is under historic political pressure from Republicans to restrict its rulings on behalf of working people. The board, for example, was forced recently to delay by three months a simple requirement that U.S. employers post notices in workplaces informing workers of their rights to form a union. Pushing the effective date of the rule to April 30 from January 31 "would facilitate the resolution of the legal challenges," the NLRB said. Now the agency is under fire for proposing new long overdue procedures for streamlining representation elections. The board said the new rules, which have been in the works for months, would reduce unnecessary delays and litigation, especially in the 10 percent of cases when employers file formal challenges to unionization votes, a move that often delays such votes by a month or more. The new rules are scheduled to take effect on April 30. But Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., SC) pledged he will keep blocking Obama's nominations to the NLRB because of its perceived pro-worker tilt. AIL/NILICO Labor Advisory Board Serves Labor's Interests James Williams General President, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Union people know that there are two kinds of employers: union employers who pay fair wages and benefits, and nonunion employers who often pay substandard wages and try to prevent their employees from joining a union. Good union companies are worthy of our support and patronage. Nonunion companies should be boycotted and denied our hard earned dollars. AIL/NILICO would fall under the category of a great union employer. I am so proud to serve as chairman of the AIL/ NILICO Labor Advisory Board with true friends of the labor movement in my partners Roger Smith and Victor Kamber. Good union employers deserve the support of union families, and AIL/NILICO is one of the best union employers in the world. The board consists of more than 45 of my national and international union colleagues who provide guidance on the company's labor support programs and insurance products needed by working families. A major focus of the AIL/NILICO Labor Advisory Board is to advise the company on the labor and labor-related causes to fund. That's what makes the AIL/NILICO Labor Advisory Board unique in corporate America. The members of the board include the most respected leaders of the North American labor movement whose photographs are presented in this issue of the Labor Letter. My predecessor as chair was former Communications Workers of America President Morton Bahr, now CWA president emeritus. Our Canadian representative is legendary labor leader Dave Barrett, former premier of British Columbia. Since the founding of this company by Bernard "B" Rapoport more than 60 years ago (and its more recently established New York State subsidiary National Income Life), American Income Life Insurance Company has demonstrated time and again that it believes a company can be highly profitable with a union workforce. This company has continued this tradition under "B's" successor, Roger Smith, who has received numerous national recognitions for the company's involvement in labor causes. With its fairly-paid union agents and employees, AIL/NILICO consistently breaks sales records every year and grows its union workforce at a time when many other companies are downsizing. AIL/NILICO is 100 percent union, which is one of the reasons why the AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department cited it among those "All-Union-Wall-to-Wall" companies. All of the union-eligible agents and employees throughout North America are represented by a union. In the United States, they are members of the Office & Professional Employees International Union Local 277. AIL agents and employees in Canada are represented by UFCW 1518 and CEP 247. AIL's national headquarters in Waco, Texas. AIL/NILICO actively supports organized labor and the right of workers to join James Williams General President, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades a union in both word and deed. Over the decades, AIL has donated millions of dollars financially and in services to labor and labor-related causes from its national headquarters in Waco, Texas to each and every local office in the field. No other employer in the United States can make that claim. The AIL/NILICO Labor Advisory Board plays a significant role in suggesting where the company's contributions and inkind services can do the most good, whether it's the fight for labor law reform or setting up a food bank for unemployed or striking workers. Membership on the Advisory Board constitutes neither an endorsement of American Income Life Insurance Company nor its products. The only obligation of membership on the Board is to provide guidance on how AIL might best serve the interests of their respective members and the labor movement. At a time when organized labor is under sustained attack, corporate friends such as AIL/NILICO are valuable allies and partners. The AIL/NILICO corporate mission statement says it all for me: "American Income Life and National Income Life have a commitment and dedication to helping working families in their times of need. We take pride in rallying to union members' aid by walking picket lines, setting up food banks, and offering other support as needed. Our union members fight locally, state-wide, and nationally for what really matters - good jobs, affordable health care, and the right to organize." Labor Advisory Board These outstanding union leaders are members of the American Income Life Insurance Company's Labor Advisory Board. With their advice, American Income Life Insurance Company provides substantial financial assistance to labor and labor-related causes, and develops programs to best meet the needs of union members and their families. Membership on the Advisory Board constitutes neither an endorsement of American Income Life Insurance Company nor its products. The only obligation of membership on the Board is to provide guidance on how AIL might best serve the interests of their respective members and the labor movement. Labor Advisory Board members recognize that AIL is a fully organized, 100 percent union company that offers supplemental insurance plans primarily to union members. AIL is honored to be among those "All-Union Wall-to-Wall" companies cited by the AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department. James Williams General President, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Chairman, Labor Advisory Board Victor Kamber Vice President, American Income Life and National Income Life Executive Director, Labor Advisory Board Denise Bowyer Vice President, American Income Life and National Income Life Secretary, Labor Advisory Board Roger Smith Chief Executive Officer, American Income Life and National Income Life President, Labor Advisory Board Bernard Rapoport Founder, American Income Life Paul E. Almeida President, Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO Stuart Appelbaum President, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, UFCW Ronald Ault President, Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO Morty Bahr President Emeritus, Communications Workers of America Chairman Emeritus, Labor Advisory Board Dave Barrett Former Premier of Province of British Columbia Honorary Member, Labor Advisory Board Theodore Bikel President, Associated Actors and Artistes of America James Boland President, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Hon. David Bonior Chair, American Rights at Work Honorary Member, Labor Advisory Board Clayola Brown President, A. Philip Randolph Institute Samuel Cabral President, International Union of Police Associations Rose Ann DeMoro Executive Director, California Nurses Association Barbara Easterling President, Alliance for Retired Americans Patrick Finley General President, Operative Plasterers' and Cement Masons' International Association of the US and Canada Hon. Richard Gephardt Former US Congressman Honorary Member, Labor Advisory Board Robert E. Gleason Secretary-Treasurer, International Longshoremen's Association James Grogan, Jr. General President, International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers Raymond Hair International President, American Federation of Musicians John Hegarty National President, National Postal Mail Handlers Union Mary Kay Henry President, Service Employees International Union, CTW, CLC James J. Higgins, Jr. Assistant General President, International Union of Elevator Constructors Edwin D. Hill President, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers William Hite President, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of US and Canada James Hoffa General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters Arlene Holt-Baker Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO Ken Howard National President, Screen Actor's Guild Frank Hurt International President, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Mike Jewell President, Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association Lorretta Johnson Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers Newton B. Jones International President, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers Greg Junemann President, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers D. Michael Langford National President, Utility Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO James Little International President, Transport Workers Union of America Matthew Loeb International President, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes William Lucy President, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Hon. Ray Marshall Former US Secretary of Labor Honorary Member, Labor Advisory Board Mary McColl Executive Director, Actors' Equity Association Sean McGarvey Secretary-Treasurer, Building and Construction Trades Department Terence O'Sullivan President, Laborers International Union of North America Oscar Owens International Secretary-Treasurer, Amalgamated Transit Union Jules Pagano Executive Director Emeritus, Labor Advisory Board Anthony "Marc" Perrone International Secretary-Tresasurer, United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union W. D. "Dan" Pickett President, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen Roberta Reardon President American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Jeff Rechenbach Executive Vice President Emeritus Communications Workers of America AFL-CIO, CLC Paul Rinaldi President National Air Traffic Controllers Association Clyde Rivers President Emeritus California School Employees Association Robert Roach, Jr. General Secretary-Treasurer International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Cecil Roberts President United Mine Workers of America Kinsey Robinson International President United Union of Roofers Waterproofers and Allied Workers Arturo Rodriquez President United Farm Workers of America Milton Rosado President Labor Council For Latin American Advancement Michael Sacco President Seafarers International Union President Maritime Trades Dept, AFL-CIO Veda Shook International President Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO Elizabeth E. Shuler Secretary-Treasurer AFL-CIO Bruce R. Smith President Glass, Molders, Pottery Plastics and Allied Workers International AFL-CIO Andy Stern President Emeritus Service Employees International Union AFL-CIO, CLC John J. Sweeney President Emeritus AFL-CIO George Tedeschi President Graphic Communications Conference / International Brotherhood of Teamsters Richard Trumka President AFL-CIO Baldemar Velasquez President Farm Labor Organizing Committee Walter Wise General President International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Diann Woodard President American Federation of School Administrators Hon. Jim Wright Former Speaker of the House Honorary Member Labor Advisory Board LAB Adds Three New Members AIL/NILICO CEO Roger Smith announced three nationally recognized labor leaders have joined the Labor Advisory Board. They are Robert Roach, Jr., General Secretary-Treasurer of International Association of Machinists, James J. Higgins, Assistant General President, Elevator Constructors (IUEC) and Dr. Lorretta Johnson, Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers. "Each of these outstanding union officials offer a unique perspective to the board that reflects their industries and professions," said Smith. "We look forward to their participation and contributions on the board." Robert Roach (IAM) James J. Higgins, Jr. (IUEC) Dr. Lorretta Johnson (AFT) Robert Roach started in the IAM as a ramp serviceman for TWA and a member of Local Lodge 1056 in New York. Soon after, he transferred to Local Lodge 1445 in Newark, NJ. He was elected as a shop steward in 1976 and served as Grievance Committee Chairman from 1979 through 1992. He held other offices in Local Lodge 1445, including trustee, vice president and president. In 1984, he was elected District Lodge 142 trustee and also served as coordinator for the District's Human Rights Committee. Roach became a District 142 General Chairman in 1992. In 1994, Robert was appointed Transportation Department Special Representative and a Grand Lodge Representative (GLR) in 1996. From GLR, Robert became General Vice President of the Transportation Department on June 1, 1999. Roach earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Labor and Management Relations at the Empire State Labor College and is a graduate of the Labor Studies program at the Cornell School of Labor. In June 2008, IUEC General President Dana Brigham appointed, and the IUEC General Executive Board confirmed, James J. Higgins to serve as the IUEC Assistant General President filling the unexpired term of Timothy Smith who retired. Higgins started in the IUEC in the late 1980's with Local 1, New York, working as a helper with the Peelle Company. He moved on to construction work with Fujitec of America and eventually to the modernization department of General Elevator. Jim became a NEIEP instructor in 1993 and five years later, was appointed NEIEP Administrator for Local 1. In this capacity, he established the standards for the Local 1 apprenticeship and training program, and became the NEIEP Director in 2001. In addition to Jim's on-the-jobtraining, he has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from Villanova University, a Masters of Business degree in business management from Dowling College and has pursued labor studies at Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations. In July 2011, the executive council of the American Federation of Teachers unanimously elected Lorretta Johnson as secretarytreasurer. Before becoming AFT secretary-treasurer, Johnson was the union's executive vice president (2008 to 2011). And she chaired the AFT Paraprofessionals and School- Related Personnel (PSRP) program and policy council from 1979 until October 2011. Prior to that, she was an AFT vice president for 30 years. Johnson also served as president of the Baltimore Teachers Union's paraprofessional chapter for 35 years and as president of AFT Maryland for 17 years. In October 2011, Johnson was elected treasurer of the AFT Educational Foundation and chair of the AFT Benefit Trust. Two months prior, she was elected a vice president of the AFL-CIO. Johnson also serves on the board of directors of the Albert Shanker Institute, the AFL-CIO's Union Privilege program and the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department. Johnson also was honored as 2005 Labor Leader of the Year by the Maryland Democratic Party.

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http://www.teamster.org/sites/teamsters.prometheuslabor.com/files/2b2f1ab1-79a6-4e7c-94fb-b7241ac70e9b.pdf

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