Other graduating students include union
and community residents who have completed at least one course of study in one
of the following: a High School Diploma, Licensed Practical Nursing Diploma,
Nursing Aide Certificate, Child Care Certificate, and Mental Health/Mental
Retardation Technician Certificate. Also, Ms.

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"We need to
change the AFL-CIO or we need to build something stronger. Graduates received
full-time scholarships from the Fund, and finished collegiate programs using
the Tuition Reimbursement Program. Sallie Glickman, Executive Director of the
Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, will cite the innovative effort of
Continuing and Professional Studies of Philadelphia University in building
career ladders for workers leading to academic degrees.

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"Working people are facing the worst crisis in generations., at the Kimmel Center.
The graduates include District 1199C union members, employed by
54 partnering Philadelphia -area healthcare facilities.

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Joined by the presidents of the Service Employees International Union,
Laborers and UNITE HERE in a show of solidarity and unity, Hoffa declared that
labor unions are the strongest hope for working Americans struggling in a Wal-
Mart economy.
Added John Wilhelm, UNITE HERE's Hospitality Industry President: "The
leadership of the AFL-CIO is not providing the vision, the energy and the hope
that workers in America need today.

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"It is time for us to wake up and shake up the American labor movement,"
said Terry O'Sullivan, General President of the Laborers International Union
of North America.
There are also 25 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA)
employees graduating from the Maintenance-Custodial course, and Technology
Preparation Program sponsored by the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Program, a
union/management effort of Transport Workers Union Local 274 and SEPTA
conducted at the Training Fund.

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Affordable health care and secure retirements are becoming a
thing of the past," Hoffa said.

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"The only people who can save working people in America are working
people in America," he said. Marsharie Gardner completed the Certified Nursing Assistant Program,
and continues to give back to her community by mentoring other CNA students.
Upon completing the LPN course in August, her plans include enrollment in a
Registered Nurse Program.

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Hoffa Says a Powerful Labor Movement Key to Strong Middle Class

LAS VEGAS, The middle class is under attack in this
country and workers desperately need a strong labor movement to give them a
voice at work and dignity on the job, Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President,
said Monday at the annual Teamsters Unity Conference. They are joined by hundreds of other union members from SEIU, the
Laborers, UNITE HERE and the United Food and Commercial Workers . Following the
conference, the presidents met to develop a strategy for winning major reform
of the AFL-CIO. PHILADELPHIA, The District 1199C Training +
Upgrading Fund will conduct a Graduation + Recognition Ceremony for almost 800
graduates on Tuesday, June 7, 2005, 6:00 p.

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Teamster leaders throughout the country are attending the annual Unity
Conference. AFSCME District Council 33 members who
attended computer training will also be recognized.

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History shows that sinking more money into politics will not stem the
decline of union membership, said Bruce Raynor , General President of UNITE
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Labor organizations offer many scholarships and opportunities for higher education to members and their families.

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Under his leadership CBTU has earned global and grassroots
respect as a catalyst for progressive change.

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Good jobs are
being destroyed.

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That is why the
Teamsters Union is leading a reform coalition of unions dedicated to devoting
the resources and the energy necessary to produce rapid growth in the labor
movement. The
keynote speaker will be William Lucy, Secretary-Treasurer of the American
State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL -CIO. He is one of the most revered
and highest-ranking African American labor leaders in the world .

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During the ceremony, Ernest Jones, President of the Philadelphia Workforce
Development Corporation , will honor Temple University for its strong
participation in joint programs to improve skills in the workforce.

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"We must act boldly
today in order to win tomorrow.

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The following profile represents a student who will receive a special
award at this year's ceremony:

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"We're not going to grow stronger if our numbers grow smaller," said Andy
Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union.
She is now enrolled in the Training Fund's Licensed Practical Nurse Program.

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We need a labor movement that is equipped to fight
for workers and win. Lucy is the first and only president of the Coalition of Black Trade
Unionists (CBTU).

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Temple's
efforts include cooperating in training Behavioral Health Workers who
otherwise would have been laid-off and contributing to the training of
Registered Nurses.

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Teamsters Lead Reform Coalition to Strengthen Unions Empower Workers

"America needs a strong labor movement to
restore the American Dream.

District 1199C Training + Upgrading Fund: Labor-Management Graduation Ceremony

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"Unions have always been the way that working people have made it into the
middle class and achieved the American dream - and we can do it again," Hoffa
said to more than 3,000 Teamsters and other union members.