NALC Food Drive – 300,000 pounds of nonperishable food items

This is a local project that turned into a national event and is sponsored by the National Association of Letter Carriers.  It is now the single largest food drive in the country.  In addition to the national event, NALC Local Union 504 also holds a food drive in November.  This event starts off a weeklong food drive for the holiday season for the Roadrunner Food Bank.

D.A.D.S. Day – (Dollars Against Diabetes) 

This is a national project sponsored by the Building & Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO.  It consists of a one-day event where volunteers from the building trades unions stand on street corners and solicit donations.  All money collected is donated to The Diabetes Research Institute located in Miami, Florida.  The local unions involved this year were:

• Asbestos Workers Local 76
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local  611
• International Union of Painters & Allied Trades Local 823
• Iron Workers Local 495
• Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 16
• Sheet Metal Workers Local 49
• United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 412
• United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 1319

HEAT’S ON

This is an annual program sponsored by the United Association of Journeyman and Apprentices of the Plumbing & PipeFitting Industry Local Union 412.  Using 70 – 80 volunteers they service furnaces, light the pilots and winterize airconditioners for low-income senior citizens and disabled individuals.   They average 150 homes each year.  In some cases where heating equipment is inoperable, they actually replace it with a new furnace free of charge to the client.  This extra service is limited by the amount of resources available.

Youth Yellow Pages

This is joint project between the United Way of Central NM and the Central NM Central labor Council.  It is a pocket sized directory designed for teenagers which lists programs and agencies that provided services to a wide variety of problems that young people encounter