Recently, Daniel F. Sciury was re-elected, by acclamation, to a 10th term as the local AFL-CIO president.
Congratulations to Dan. He has served the interest of Stark County's organized labor and, indeed, the interests of all of Stark County's working men and women with distinction.
On a political note, the STARK COUNTY POLITICAL REPORT (The Report) checked in with Dan this past Tuesday as to how things were going between him and the local union movement in general with Stark County Democratic Party chairman Johnnie A. Maier, Jr.
Of course, Dan Sciury has been a fixture in local Democratic politics before Maier even got started in local politics.
In recent times Maier had intimated to Sciury that he intended to work at repairing their relationship that became especially frayed when Maier replaced respected unionist Billy Sherer (ironworkers) with Maier's handpicked nonunion on the Stark County Board of Elections.
Sciury did tell The Report that the relationship between him and Stark County's organized labor had improved, but as quoted in the accompanying graphic "It will never be the same as it used to be."
In the same conversation Sciury lambasted Maier's handpicked candidate for Ohio's 50th House District (Trustee Celeste DeHoff of Tuscarawas Township) for continuing to fight the reinstatement of two Local 92 Teamsters who were fired by township trustees because of an altercation between them at the township workplace a couple of years ago.
Scuiry told The Report that he is hopeful that the plight of working men and women will improve with the election of Barack Obama.
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