Two new features on our website introduce you to union members who are helping families in the Reading, Pa., community and who keep San Francisco's iconic cable cars running.

Twenty years ago, when members of the United Steelworkers (USW) in Reading, Pa., came together to establish a food bank for families in need, it served about 40 union families. Two decades later, the Helping Hands Food Bank is serving more than 400 families in the community, union and nonunion alike.    

Says Carl Ramich of USW Local 3733, who was one of the original food bank organizers:

We pushed to organize it. Looking at it now, with how big it is, we’ve really accomplished something in this community.

Go to www.aflcio.org and click on the “In Our Communities” box on the left to find out more and see a video.

A new “What I Do” video on the AFL-CIO homepage features members of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 6 who keep San Francisco’s famed cable cars running smoothly. Says Armando Guzman:

People who come to visit San Francisco, they want to ride cable cars. I’m really proud to tell them, “Hey, I work on them.”

Hop aboard our homepage, click on the “What I Do” box and take a ride up Powell and Hyde streets to Fisherman’s Wharf.

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