




AFSCME Council 27 field representative Euell Rader greets a delegation from Japan’s public employee trade union, JICHIRO, in Palo Alto, California. Left to right: Rader, Masamatsu Sugawara, general treasurer of Tokyo Metropolitan Workers Union; Akira Noda, president of the Hiroshima Prefectural branch of JICHIRO; Suehiro Ueda, general secretary of the Osaka City Workers Union; Vasuo Maruyama, vice president of JICHIRO; Richard Kriegel, Public Services International Inter-American Representative; and an unidentified interpreter.