Sign our petition if you want to see good manufacturing jobs stay in the United States; if you want fair trade laws; and if you want America to keep its promise that if you work hard, you can sustain a family and one day retire with dignity.
National Grid is jeopardizing the safety of our communities by locking out 1,100 of its most experienced employees who are critical to ensuring safe and quality gas work in Massachusetts.
While the annual holiday gift drive was something President Rains’ chapter financed and organized, support has also come from Associate Judge Sarah Smith. According to Rains, Smith has at times offered to pay for the postage and shipment of the supplies and has gone out of her way to help get them in the hands of our men and women overseas. Sarah also serves as a Lt. Colonel in the Illinois National Guard and supplied the names of the troops in Afghanistan who will soon be enjoying the boxes loaded with those hard to get treats that were donated by SOAR members for Christmas.
Two bus loads of delegates filled with curious labor leaders from around the globe crossed the river from the AFL-CIO October 2017 Convention in St Louis, arrived for a tour of the idled steel mill and a tour of the historic Tri Cities Labor Temple in Granite City.
November 23, 2016 With the assistance from SOAR Chapter members in Granite City, Illinois, Shirley Luffman has completed another leg of her ongoing mission. For 17 years now she has coordinated the shipment of bountiful boxes to troops serving overseas, with this year’s shipment directed to those currently deployed in Afghanistan.
October 28, 2016 By Doug May SOAR Chapter 7-34-2 Granite City, Illinois
Many Americans have found it far too easy to become callous about the fact that real lives are being affected when partisan politics obstructs progress in D.C.
Two bus loads of delegates 
November 23, 2016 With the assistance from SOAR Chapter members in Granite City, Illinois, Shirley Luffman has completed another leg of her ongoing mission. For 17 years now she has coordinated the shipment of bountiful boxes to troops serving overseas, with this year’s shipment directed to those currently deployed in Afghanistan.
