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Cincinnati Union Members Help Rebuild School Playground

Mark Caddo of the United Way of Greater Cincinnati, reports on union members and corporate executives who came together to rebuild a school playground in Walton, Ky.

The Early Learning Center at Walton-Verona Elementary School is nestled between two farms in the rolling hills of Walton, Ky., near Cincinnati. Late last month, with a heat index above 100 degrees, members of the UAW, United Steelworkers (USW), AFSCME and the Laborers (LIUNA) partnered with United Way of  Greater Cincinnati’s latest crop of  volunteer “loaned executives” from local businesses to help rebuild the school playground. The play area had been  destroyed by recent strong storm winds and  the wear and tear of  two years of daily school ground play.

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