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IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Dora Cervantes, along with IAM Assistant Secretary Paul Kendall, Bryan Pinette, IAM Special Assistant to the General Secretary-Treasurer, and DeLane Adams, IAM Director of Rapid Response and Mobilization, recently joined labor allies from across the country at the 72nd Convention of the Union Label and Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO, held at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington.
IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Cervantes was reelected to the executive board, and Richard Kline was elected to another term as Union Label & Service Trades President.
Congratulations to IAM General Secretary-Treasurer Dora Cervantes on her reelection to the @ULSTD_AFLCIO Executive Board at their 72nd Convention!
Her leadership continues to move working people forward and keep our trades strong! pic.twitter.com/1Zt4cg6UYP
— IAM Union (@IAM_Union) April 23, 2026
“Being reelected to this board is an honor, but more than that, it’s a charge,” said Cervantes. “When we look for the union label and choose union-made products and union-provided services, we are supporting one another in the most direct way possible. Every union purchase protects a union job, sustains a union family, and strengthens the movement we’ve all dedicated our lives to building.”
The convention report highlighted that organizing activity accelerated across industries in 2025, even as union density continues to trail the levels that once anchored a strong middle class. The Union Label and Service Trades Department’s message during this year’s convention was clear: the labor movement’s strength grows not only at the bargaining table, but in the economic marketplace.
The delegates heard from David Woods, International Secretary-Treasurer of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers & Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), and Nicole Rhine, Secretary-Treasurer of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC).
Buying union matters. When union members, their families, and allies choose union-made products and union-provided services, they reinforce the wages, benefits, and safe workplaces that unions fight to secure. Every purchasing decision is an act of economic solidarity.
The convention leadership also called on affiliates to strengthen its union product, the Airtable database, a searchable platform helping consumers identify union-made goods and services, and to expand digital outreach that connects everyday economic choices to worker advocacy.
The message from the 72nd convention was simple: look for the union label.
For more information on finding union-made products and services, visit unionlabel.org.
