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Fallen Workers Remembered Help NALC Food Drive (ISSN 0023-6667) Help NALC Food Drive pass 1 billion pound milestone this Saturday with your donation (PAI)--The National Asso- But there’s another record Superior, Cloquet, Two ciation of Letter Carriers’ NALC President Fredric Harbors and Silver Bay join Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, Rolando hopes generous givers 10,000 communities nation- readying its 18th campaign this will set, for annual donations. wide in filling food shelves. If Saturday, May 8, is also prepar- Last year they gave a record you would like to help call ing to pass a milestone: collect- 73.4 million pounds of food. Community Services Program ing its billionth pound of food. That food, like the 982 mil- Director Beth Peterson at 728- An Injury to One is an Injury to All! lion pounds NALC members 1779. You can also just show Pres. Obama have cumulatively collected up at the main post office in WEDNESDAY VOL. 115 since the union’s drive began, your community and be put to MAY 5, 2010 NO. 21 praises unions goes to local pantries, soup work feeding the hungry. When By Mark Gruenberg kitchens, shelters and other the day is over in Duluth every- PAI Staff Writer organizations that feed the one that helped is treated to OTTUMWA, Iowa--In one needy and the homeless. And Bernie’s Bar-B-Que thanks to of his strongest pro-union with the Great Recession now Paul Schweiger and the Sieben statements since entering the in its third year, the need for Grose Von Holtum & Carey White House Democratic Pres- donated food has spiraled. law firm, which is held behind ident Barack Obama declared “Millions of families need Duluth’s main post office. “I am a pro-union guy” to a our help this year,” Rolando If you can, please volunteer, townhall meeting here April 27 said. “Even though the econo- and please leave non-perish- After touring a “clean ener- my is starting to turn up, the able food items (no glass, gy” wind turbine blade factory, recovery has not done much for please) in a strong bag out for Obama took questions from the the record number of men, your letter carrier on Saturday, crowd -- including one from a women and children who des- May 8. These items are cur- Laborer. “We supported you perately need help putting food rently low on CHUM’s Food when you ran. My question is: on the table. Food banks, Shelf: spaghetti sauce in cans, How are you going to continue pantries and shelters need our canned fruit, fruit juice, veg- to support us?” she asked. help more than ever. As fami- etable & cream soups, tuna, “Well, first of all, I’m grate- lies count on them for support, spam, and whole corn. ful for the support. And, sec- they’re counting on us and we Food drive partners include ond of all, I’ve said this before will not back off on our com- the Rural Letter Carriers, AFL- publicly and I’ll say it again, I mitment.” CIO, the Feeding America make no apologies for it. I am Rolando noted food dona- national network of food Dan Olson, left, and Warren Bender, both members of the a pro-union guy,” the president tions now are particularly valu- banks, Campbell Soup, USPS, Superior Federation of Labor and the Superior City replied, to applause. “Our able because schools close for Val-Pak, Pictorial Offset -- an Council, led that city’s first Workers’ Memorial Day obser- unions helped build our middle the summer, depriving many unionized New Jersey printer vance April 28. Bender read a letter from Senator Herb class. We take for granted so needy and hungry kids of the that printed 125 million Kohl. Behind them is the Superior Police Honor Guard. much stuff -- minimum wage one guaranteed square meal reminder postcards to be sent laws, 40-hour work week, they get each day -- the school nationwide -- and cartoonists Fallen workers remembered overtime, child labor laws. lunch. Bil and Jeff Keane of The Trees were planted last week in Duluth and Superior as part Those things wouldn’t have Locally Letter Carriers and Family Circus (graphic below). of Workers Memorial Day observances to remember workers happened if it hadn’t been for volunteers in Duluth, Proctor, and soldiers who died last year on the job or in the line of duty. unions fighting for those rights. In Duluth over 120 people came out Monday, April 26 for a So even if you’re not a member Solidarity Breakfast and observance that included Duluth Mayor of a union, you’ve got to be Don Ness and Superior Mayor Dave Ross. A large number of appreciative of what unions family, friends and co-workers of Randy Robertson were in have done,” he declared. attendance. A Superior resident, Robertson, 51, died of a heart A month after his inaugura- attack Sept. 8, 2009 while at work for the Duluth Public Schools. tion Obama called unions “part He was a 23-year member of SEIU Firemen & Oilers Local 956. of the solution” to the nation’s Also remembered were Robert Gotschall Jr., a non-union economic ills, not part of the painter from Mentor, Ohio who died on the picketed Texas problem. But that was just Roadhouse project Oct. 31., Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Aaron inside the White House. This Taylor and Spc. George Cauley, who both died in Afghanistan, statement was out in public. 29 non-union coal miners who died at Massey’s Upper Big In Ottumwa, Obama men- Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia, and 5 USW members tioned his support for the who died at Anacortes, Washington in a fire and explosion. Employee Free Choice Act. A Duluth labor has been observing Workers Memorial Day planned Senate GOP filibuster since 1988. The Superior Federation of Labor and City of stalled the bill; House passage Superior held their first, well-attended observance April 28 at is assumed. Bear Creek Park. Dan Olson, “A lot of things that we do Business Manager of Laborers don’t get a lot of notice. We Local 1091 and a Superior City don’t always generate head- Councilor, has been pushing for lines,” he explained. “But a lot the event. of things that we’re doing have “We will continue to hold to do with how is the these observances to help us all Department of Labor operating with our pain and loss,” he said to make sure that workplace in remembering his friends in safety rules are enforced, to the Kimmes family, who died in make sure that if the federal a tragic accident Nov. 1, 2007. government is helping to Letters were read from U.S. finance a” construction “pro- Senators Herb Kohl and Russ gram, that we’ve got a project Feingold in honor of the event. labor agreement in place that (More on pages 4 and 5.) See Obama praises...page 6 Film to address inequality in health care Netland re-elected at NEALC Your street address is a the Portman Community sands of organizations around At its meeting Monday night in Cloquet the North East Area strong predictor of your health. Center, 4601 McCulloch Street the country to tackle the root Labor Council (NEALC) re-elected it officers. Alan Netland, There’s a reason the rich in Duluth’s Lakeside neighbor- causes of our alarming socio- who was president of the Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body live longer in America. hood, that will address those economic and racial inequities for 12 years prior to giving up that position last year, was re- Poor smokers are at higher assertions. in health. elected to a second term as NEALC president. He is the first per- risk of disease than rich smok- “UNNATURAL CAUSES The four-hour series criss- son to hold that position. He is also president of his AFSCME ers. ...is inequality making us crosses the nation uncovering Local 66. Why aren’t fresh fruits and sick?” is a documentary series startling new findings that sug- Brent Pykkonen and John Rebrovich were also re-elected to vegetables as available, espe- exploring America’s racial and gest there is much more to our their posts as Executive Vice President and Financial Recording cially to children, as candy and socioeconomic inequities in health than bad habits, health Secretary, respectively. Pykkonen is an Operating Engineer fries? health. The 7-part acclaimed care, or unlucky genes. The Local 49 member from Esko. Rebrovich is a United Steelworker On Tuesday, May 18 a film documentary series broadcast social circumstances in which staff representative from Eveleth. will be shown at 6:30 p.m. at by PBS is now used by thou- we are born, live, and work can “I am proud to serve the labor community once again as actually get under our skin and President of the Labor Council,” said Netland of his re-election. Organizing Institute training disrupt our physiology as much “We have come a long way in our work to build a stronger, more ST. PAUL - The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute will host a as germs and viruses. cohesive labor movement in Minnesota and I look forward to three-day training for union members the weekend of May 21- The free event is being continuing that work.” 23 in St. Paul. Organizing Institute trainings are designed to sponsored by St. Louis County The NEALC is the largest labor organization in northeastern equip member activists and organizers with the basic skills of Commissioner Steve O’Neil Minnesota representing 40,000 union members and 90 local union organizing.
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