Pictured at the IBEW booth at the AFL-CIO Union Industries Show,
from left, are Local 266 Business Manager Ray Nunez (Phoenix, Arizona),
Eleventh District Vice President William Eads, Sixth District Vice
President Lawrence Curley, International Secretary-Treasurer Jerry
OConnor, Sixth District International Representative Donna Myron,
IBEW Purchasing Director Peter Potenza and Sharlene Nunez.
Annual Union Industries Show In Minneapolis
Draws Big Crowds
June 2002 IBEW Journal
More than 200,000 people attended the AFL-CIO Union Industries
Show for the annual exhibition of union-made products and services
April 5-8.
The IBEW was one of the biggest exhibitors represented at the Minneapolis
Convention Center in Minnesota, with crowds of visitors drawn to
live wire, computer and pipe-bending demonstrations. Approximately
1,000 middle school and high school children particularly enjoyed
watching Minneapolis Local 160 members use live wire to "cook"
hot dogs, said IBEW Purchasing Director Peter Potenza. As always,
the IBEWs feisty robot, I-bew, attracted admirers.
Along with Local 160, other host Minnesota locals represented were
110 (St. Paul), 292 (Minneapolis), 294 (Hibbing) and 343 (Le Sueur).
 Local
160
members Mike Otteson (left) and Bret Kitner demonstrate IBEW skills
at the Minnesota Valley Electric Co. booth at the AFL-CIO Union
Industries Show.
NEBFs
Anthony J. Salamone Retires
Anthony J. "Sal" Salamone retired June 30, 2002, after
a career that "is an example of the talent and dedication that
have enabled the unionized electrical construction and telecommunications
industries to grow and succeed," according a joint resolution
from those he served for 50 years, the IBEW and the National Electrical
Contractors Association (NECA).
Brother Salamone, 75, a native of Pennsylvania, was initiated into
IBEW Local 1448, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 3, 1952. He
was appointed to the International staff in 1959. He was Administrative
Assistant to then-International President Charles Pillard when he
retired from the International and became Executive Secretary-Treasurer
of the National Electrical Benefit Fund (NEBF) in 1987.
In that role he continued to display "the honesty, integrity
and unquestioned dedication to the industries in which IBEW members
and organized contractors work," the IBEW and NECA said.
His 15-year stewardship at the NEBF saw phenomenal growth of a
fund that has become one of the foremost of its kind in the world.
Beginning in April, Larry Bradley, formerly Executive Director
of NECAs Penn-Del-Jersey Chapter, assumed the position of Executive
Secretary-Treasurer of the NEBF.
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