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CONGRATULATIONS

MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL PRESIDENT
LIUNA LOCAL 506
AND GENERAL SECRETARY-TREASURER

Dear, training that occurred was on the job. you build throughout the great city of

Far too many workers went to work in Toronto, and your charitable work in
Brothers the morning, only to end the day in a the community, you constantly dem-

and Sisters, pine box or a body bag. Others worked onstrate the goodness and greatness of
until their bodies gave out, having LIUNA. We are proud to call you our
nothing to show for decades of LIUNA brothers and sisters.
On behalf of your 500,000 LIUNA back-breaking labor, condemned to Congratulations again on reaching this
brothers and sisters across the United living out the last years of their life in important milestone, and may your
States and Canada, it is our pleasure to abject poverty. The brave working second hundred years be even better
congratulate Business Manager Carmen class warriors who organized Local than your first. May you feel the power;
Principato, Secretary-Treasurer Tony 506 joined together, stood shoulder- may you be the power; and may you use
Do Vale, your entire Executive Board, to-shoulder, and rose up to change the power.
and all of you on your 100th anniver- all that. They fought for, and won, With kind regards, CELEBRATING
sary. While a lot has changed since decent wages, safer working conditions, We are Fraternally yours,
Local 506 was chartered on November family-supporting benefits, training
14, 1919, our core values of justice, funds, and good pensions. They put
honor, and strength remain the same. both their livelihoods and their lives
You can all take pride that over the on the line to build a better world for
past century, Local 506 has provided future generations; for all of us. Like
generations of hard-working Laborers the old man who plants a sapling so
a viable path to the middle-class, and that his descendants will be able to
helped them to build better lives for enjoy the shade of a mighty oak, so those
themselves and their families. who came before us planted the sapling
that has grown into the mighty union
Like LIUNA itself, Local 506 has that protects more than 8,000 members YEARS OF
endured through war and peace, boom throughout the greater Toronto area.
and bust, good times and bad, all Today, under the leadership of Carmen, TERRY O’SULLIVAN
General President
because of the hard work, dedication, Tony, and your entire Executive Board, JUSTICE, HONOR
and sacrifice of those who came before you continue to provide a beacon of
us. They faced strife and struggle to win hope and opportunity to all those who
the wages, benefits, and protections we enter your union hall and get a union AND STRENGTH
enjoy today. One hundred years ago, book. We are awed and inspired by your
Laborers and Hod Carriers often were continued growth, in both membership
exploited, abused, paid low wages, and market share, and by the presence
and subjected to dangerous working and brand recognition you have estab-
conditions. There were no health and lished throughout Toronto. Between
welfare benefits, no pensions or the difference you continue to make in
retirement plans, and the only the lives of our members, the structures
ARMAND E. SABITONI LABORERS’ INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA
General Secretary-Treasurer TERRY O’SULLIVAN ARMAND E. SABITONI
General President General Secretary-Treasurer

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