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Auditor General Jack Wagner (D) has been endorsed by 13 AFL-CIO associated union groups in Pennsylvania as part of his gubernatorial bid.
The union groups include:
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 29 (Jeff Davis, President)
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 201 (Eric Hoover, President)
- United Mine Workers District 3 (Ed Yankovich, President)
- American Federation of Government Employees 3rd District (Keith Hill, National Vice President; represented in Western PA by Ron Demichelli and in Southeastern PA by Jim Weyrauch)
- United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 (Wendell Young IV, President)
- District 1199c of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, AFSCME, AFL-CIO (Henry Nicholas, President)
- Transportation Workers Union (Willie Brown, President)
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen/Teamsters Rail Conference (Ken Kertesz, Chairman)
- Teamsters Local 30 (Ernie Gigliotti, Principal Officer)
- Amalgamated Transit Union, Pittsburgh (Pat McMahon, President)
- Boilermakers Local 154 (Ray Vitrone, President)
- Beaver-Lawrence Central Labor Council (Dennis Bloom, President)
- Indiana, Armstrong, and Clarion Counties Central Labor Council (Ken Cecconi, President)
“I am humbly grateful and honored to have the support of these unions who embody the true spiriting of working families in Pennsylvania,” Wagner said. “As Auditor General, I have fought to protect the rights of the men and women of organized labor, uncovering violations of the prevailing wage, unemployment, and workers
