This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy,

truth and justice, believers, and peace peace freedom in the American way and

hello everybody in Chicago

we are we are live what is the what is the name of this venue do Bob yet were

a pre-banklets here operating engineers local 150.

Great. Thank you. That was Bob Ryder.

He is the Secretary Treasury of the Chicago Federation of Labor.

To Ferry Gobre is with me.

He is the executive director of the AFL-CIO.

Did I say your name right?

You said my name right, but I'm the executive vice president.

Executive Vice President. Executive Vice President.

Okay.

And Will Atig, who is the director of union affairs

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the a l c i i'll see i i'm here's the united council okay so we're all a f l cia up here right now this

morning that's a what dune and he that's a good thing and so so so

let's let's start with with the you know the state of labor I'd like to ask each one of you what what you know

we're here in Chicago and obviously many of the stories that we're going to talk

about are going to be Illinois labor stories but I think we can generalize probably

most of them if not all of them to the whole country it's not like

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