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Mary Sullivan-President
Washington State’s Innovative Aerospace Apprenticeship Program
Touted
As National Apprenticeship Week kicks off, a new report from the Working for America Institute and Jobs With
Justice Education Fund profiles a Washington state apprenticeship program as a successful example of a
workforce intermediary partnership. These partnerships bring together unions and employers to recruit, train, and
diversify the workforce for a given industry or a specific employer. The involvement of unions ensures employer
training programs that benefit the company also benefit workers and their communities by creating pathways to
family-sustaining careers.
Read the full article.
Democrats Have An Ambitious Plan To Help Rebuild
Labor Unions
As a pillar of the Democratic Party, unions have wanted for years to see mainstream Democrats push for major reforms
to the law that would rejuvenate the ranks of organized labor. At the press conference Wednesday, AFL-CIO President
Richard Trumka applauded the proposals, but also emphasized that many Democrats have taken their union support for
granted.
“To be perfectly honest, Democrats in the past have lost some of their connection with working people in our
communities who made up their base for generations,” Trumka said. “But this ― these proposals ― will strengthen that
bond.”
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AFL-CIO, Several Unions Send Volunteers to Puerto
Rico
Some 275 volunteers – pilots, mechanics, flight attendants and other workers – took off from Newark International
Airport on October 4 on a union-sponsored relief mission to hurricane-smashed Puerto Rico, the AFL-CIO announced.
Some 50 unionized registered nurses, members of National Nurses United, flew in from San Francisco the day before to
join the mission.
The unionists headed for the island commonwealth, whose 3.4 million residents lack power, food, drinkable water and
other resources, two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit.
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