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Chicago Local 9 Leader

December 2004 IBEW Journal

Local 9 Business Manager Robert Pierson, left, received the Rerum Novarum Award from Cardinal Francis George in October. The honor, given by St. Joseph College Seminary at Loyola University in Chicago, selects men and women in labor, business and government who demonstrate respect for the dignity of the human being and human labor, the right to organize and the right to a living wage. Pierson has been a union activist for four decades.