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Organized labor has its first openly gay leader. Jesse Russell reports:

New York based United Federation of Teachers President, Randi Weingarten has been elected to succeed Edward McElroy as President of the American Federation of Teachers. The election makes Weingarten the first openly gay labor leader to be president of a national labor union. Weingarten served for 10 years as UFT head, and under her tenure she negotiated a 43 percent increase in educator salaries and helped organize 28,000 home childcare workers in New York City.