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Welcome to the Trades & Labor website
Welcome to the Bloomington & Normal Trades & Labor Assembly web site. Here you will find current news articles from the Grand Prairie Union News , community services updates, a thorough labor history of both Bloomington and Normal, Illinois (including pieces on early Irish railroad laborers, Mother Jones' exciting 1917 visit and the 1978 Normal fire fighters strike), and an archive of labor book, film, and music reviews. You can reach us at 309-828-8813, P.O. Box 3396, Bloomington, IL 61702.
LIUNA Midwest Region (Laborers’ International Union of North America) has named David Penn as the new Director of MROC (Midwest Region Organizing Committee). Penn is a second generation Laborer and a 42-year member of Laborers’ Local 362 in Bloomington. He previously served as Financial Secretary for 5 years and then as Business Manager of the Local for 6 years.
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Thanks to union volunteers, working families won a strong victory on Nov. 4, sending Barack Obama to the White House and electing a pro-worker Congress. These elected leaders now must struggle to restore the economy.
Economic stimulus won’t result in real shared prosperity unless we restore workers’ freedom to form unions. That’s what the Employee Free Choice Act, will do.
On April 19,2005, the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum was formally dedicated in Springfield. President George Bush was there, along with Governor Rod Blagojevich, Senator Dick Durbin and Congressmen RayLaHood and Dennis Hastert. Your editor was in the audience and was deeply moved by then Senator Barack Obama’s words. Obama spoke about Lincoln’s heritage and its reflection in our current political climate. There are some excellent points here worth reading carefully and pondering.
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