With the AFL-CIO convention coming at the end of July, a great deal of media focus has been on the national level. Over the next month the Workers Independent News will be concentrating on locals, districts and labor councils to find out what they hope will come out of the convention. On Thursday, WIN spoke with Hilda Delgado of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor:

[Delgado]: Los Angeles is committed. And we had a meeting at the beginning of the year before the passing of my boss, Miguel Contreras, and he brought all the unions together because we've been able to increase membership and mobilize and really have a united labor front in Los Angeles. Unions are committed to working together, but we're still waiting to see what happens on a national level, because although we will be the most impacted by the changes, we have no stake and we aren't the decision makers. It is the executive board that makes those decisions. So we are still waiting to see what happens on the national level to be able to move forward.