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Inaugural class of Pennsylvania Labor Leadership Institute graduates

Inaugural class of Pennsylvania Labor Leadership Institute graduates

October 1, 2015

One of the key initiatives of the School of Labor and Employment Relations’ educational outreach to the labor community is a year-long leadership development program called the Pennsylvania Labor Leadership Institute (PA LLI).  The program, co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, is designed for full-time union staff and officers with significant leadership responsibilities and includes five intensive, multi-day, workshops during the year.  The eighteen labor leaders in the first PA LLI class were recognized at a graduation lunch and ceremony at the Nittany Lion Inn on May 30. Rick Bloomingdale, President of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO, was the featured speaker. 

The first graduating class included participants from building trades, public sector, service and industrial unions.  This program is now in its second year, with a new class that will graduate this coming June.  

Like all Penn State graduates, the class showed their Penn State spirit with a graduation picture at the Nittany Lion Shrine.  

Inaugural class of Pennsylvania Labor Leadership Institute graduates