Labor & Employment Law

Tune In to Live Webcast of Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Convention Next Week

By Mike Hall

The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO celebrates its 50th anniversary next week, April 12-15, at the state federation’s 39th Constitutional Convention in Pittsburgh. You can be there, thanks to “The Rick Smith Show” and the Head On Radio Network, which will provide video and audio coverage from gavel to gavel.

Pennsylvania activist Rick Smith, a Teamsters member and International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) vice president, regularly hosts a two-hour labor talk each Saturday and Sunday, between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., broadcast and webcast on WHYL AM. During the convention, Smith will use the breaks in the formal proceedings to interview delegates and union leaders, including the presidents of the many national unions attending.

The convention also will honor Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President William George, who is retiring after leading the state federation since 1990. He started his career as a union activist with United Steelworkers (USW) Local 1211, in 1960 in Aliquippa, Pa., and served in numerous union leadership positions before joining the union’s international staff at USW District 20 in 1971.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).