After decades of leading the Wisconsin State Employees Union, prominent union leader Marty Beil announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the month.
Beil has served as the executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 24 since 1985. He said Wednesday that in spite of Act 10 and other actions taken by top Republicans affecting unions, “‘workers will eventually prevail.” He also said young people give him confidence about the future.
“They excite me about their new direction and the solidarity that they bring to the equation, and they only, they only give me more hope that unions will not only succeed, but will grow regardless of who the governor and who the Legislature is,” he said.
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Before he was Council 24’s executive director, Beil was its president. He was also president of his statewide local council beginning in 1973.
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