Saturday, October 10, 2009
West Virginia AFL-CIO Re-Elect Officers
At the West Virginia AFL-CIO Convention held in Charleston Thursday and Friday, delegates re-elected President Kenneth Perdue and Secretary-Treasurer Larry Mathney, who will each serve for four more years. Along with those, fourteen vice-presidents who will make up the organization's executive board, were elected to serve the organization which has 550 affiliated local unions. Mathney says the organization's goal will be to ensure "all workers in West Virginia have the dignity and respect they deserve. That means good wages, decent pensions, affordable health care and safe working conditions."