Quinn for Illinois

IUOE Local 150 Honors Governor Quinn 

Countryside - The International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150 recognized Governor Quinn and the state’s legislative leaders at the Statesman of the Year award ceremony at the Local 150 union hall in Countryside. The award program, founded in 1987, honors friends of organized labor and the construction industry.

 

Governor Quinn was the recipient of the William E. Dugan Statesman of the Year award, named for the union’s former President-Business Manager, who served from 1986 to 2007. “Governor Quinn has been there for working men and women when we have needed him the most,” said Local 150 President-Business Manager James M. Sweeney.

“When workers were suffering this spring, Governor Quinn helped put them to work with the Jumpstart bill, and he was there to sign the $31 billion ‘Illinois Jobs Now’ capital program this summer, which will provide hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next six years.” 

“We want people working in the Land of Lincoln,” said Governor Quinn in his remarks. “The Illinois Jobs Now capital program will provide more than 400,000 jobs over the next six years, and Local 150 did a lot of work in making sure it happened his year.” 

Former recipients of these awards include U.S. Congressman William O. Lipinski, former Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, former Illinois State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson, and others in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa.

The International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150 is a labor union representing more than 23,000 working people in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. Local 150 represents workers in various industries, including construction, construction material production, concrete pumping, steel mill service, slag production, landscaping, public works and others.