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The International Union of Operating Engineers is a progressive, diversified trade union that primarily represents operating engineers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics and surveyors in the construction industry and stationary engineers who work in operations and maintenance in building and industrial complexes, as well as in the service industries. The union also represents nurses and other health industry workers as well as significant numbers of public employees engaged in a variety of occupations. Founded in 1896, the union has approximately 400,000 members in some 170 local unions throughout the United States and Canada.

Established as the only education union for school administrators that serves the entire United States, American Federation of School Administrators provides labor relations, professional and occupational services to public school principals, vice principals, administrators and supervisors. The union leads the fight against high-stakes testing, vouchers and privatization and other things it believes assaults the public education system at the local, state and federal government levels. American Federation of School Administrators provides legislative lobbying and grassroots activism.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is one of the largest public service employees unions in the United States. It is comprised of more than one million members that serve the public in all areas of government, health, education and other services, both public and private. The union organizes for social and economic justice in the workplace and through political action and legislative advocacy. AFSCME has more than 3,500 local unions in 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each local chapter writes its own constitution, has regular membership meetings and elects its own officers and stewards. The union is headquartered in Washington, D.C.