Daily Archives: December 16, 2009

Indiana State AFL-CIO Names First Woman President

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The Indiana State AFL-CIO announced that Nancy Guyott has been elected its new president and Joe Breedlove has been re-elected as its secretary-treasurer.

Guyott makes history by becoming the first women and, at age 41, the youngest person in nearly fifty years to lead the labor organization. She was unanimously elected at the AFL-CIO’s state convention to replace retiring president Ken Zeller. Guyott is now one of only the six women in the nation to head a state AFL-CIO.

The Indiana State AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) is a federation of 800 local unions across the state belonging to 50 International Unions. In total, the Indiana State AFL-CIO represents more than 300,000 working Hoosiers.
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Notes: Indiana Revenue Forecast Comes Up $1.8 Billion Short

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With lower tax revenues forecast to create a $1.8 billion budget deficit over the next two years, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says the state will drain the reserve fund to zero, but will still need at least $300 million in education cuts to balance the budget.

The Environmental Protection Agency will use $13 million in Great Lakes restoration funds on engineering projects in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to stop Asian carp from getting into the Great Lakes.

The Michigan City Redevelopment Commission approved a $150,000 grant to create a downtown “artist’s colony.”

Ironworkers Local 395 celebrated the opening of their new union hall Tuesday.

By damming a culvert to create a water supply, firefighters in Wheatfield managed to extinguish a pesky muck fire than had been burning since June.

A museum, a hospital and a casino were all suggested as possible new uses for the College Football Hall of Fame building in South Bend. The Hall is relocating to Atlanta next year.