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Article: OBITUARY; Reihl headed Wisconsin AFL-CIO; Carpenter rose to labor leadership
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2008
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Jack B. Reihl believed that unions were good for the country and
good for local communities, not just the dues-paying members.
The son of a union organizer -- and a proud member of the
carpenters union -- Reihl eventually served as president of the
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. He got into organized labor "because I
thought that any country that's really made any economic or social
progress has had really strong trade unions," as he explained in a
retirement interview with the La Crosse Tribune.
"We say we're the friends of the everyday person," Reihl then
said. "You don't have to carry a union card to benefit from some of
the things we work on."
Reihl died of pulmonary fibrosis Sunday. He was ...