His colleagues in local No. 357 recognized his commitment to their concems and elected him chief shop steward in 1962. He continued to move up the leadership ladder and was appointed business representative/dispatcher of local No. 357 in 1966. An immigrant from Panama. by 1967 Sam had earned his U.S. citizenship and his involvement in labor then broadened to include electoral politics. In the many years since. he has worked tirelessly on behalf of candidates for public office who were responsive to the workingpeoples agenda he cared about so much. In 1972 he was appointed business representative of local No. 572. and in that capacity assumed a full range of responsibilities. from negotiating contracts to arbitration.
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