Dominick DeGregorio Oral History Interview

Born in Cervinara, Italy, Dominick DeGregorio came with his brother to the US in 1954. Immediately, he started working in his Uncle’s grocery store in New York City. At 18, DeGregorio started his Union career by joining the Mason Tenders Local #37 in Brooklyn. After transferring his book to Local 6A Concrete Workers Union, he became a power buggy operator transporting concrete to build numerous skyscrapers in the New York City skyline. In 1974, DeGregorio moved to Albuquerque and joined LIUNA Local #16 with his first job working as General Foreman at University Heights Hospital. Assuming the position of Training Director for the NM Laborers’ Training Trust Fund, DeGregorio started with a small trailer and drove all over New Mexico training members. In 1980, LIUNA Local #16 purchased land in Edgewood, NM and built a permanent training facility that opened in 1983. DeGregorio worked his entire career promoting union membership with all its benefits. He proclaimed in his interview, “when I came to this country, I thought the streets were paved in gold. What I discovered was not gold, but opportunity for a career that I have loved for so many years.” The attached file contains photos from the photo board displayed in the video.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1070/thumbnail.jp

Effects of a high-dose 24-h infusion of tranexamic acid on death and thromboembolic events in patients with acute gastrointestinal bleeding (HALT-IT): an international randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Background: Tranexamic acid reduces surgical bleeding and reduces death due to bleeding in patients with trauma. Meta-analyses of small trials show that tranexamic acid might decrease deaths from gastrointestinal bleeding. We aimed to assess the effects of tranexamic acid in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding. Methods: We did an international, multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial in 164 hospitals in 15 countries. Patients were enrolled if the responsible clinician was uncertain whether to use tranexamic acid, were aged above the minimum age considered an adult in their country (either aged 16 years and older or aged 18 years and older), and had significant (defined as at risk of bleeding to death) upper or lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Patients were randomly assigned by selection of a numbered treatment pack from a box containing eight packs that were identical apart from the pack number. Patients received either a loading dose of 1 g tranexamic acid, which was added to 100 mL infusion bag of 0·9% sodium chloride and infused by slow intravenous injection over 10 min, followed by a maintenance dose of 3 g tranexamic acid added to 1 L of any isotonic intravenous solution and infused at 125 mg/h for 24 h, or placebo (sodium chloride 0·9%). Patients, caregivers, and those assessing outcomes were masked to allocation. The primary outcome was death due to bleeding within 5 days of randomisation; analysis excluded patients who received neither dose of the allocated treatment and those for whom outcome data on death were unavailable. This trial was registered with Current Controlled Trials, ISRCTN11225767, and ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01658124. Findings: Between July 4, 2013, and June 21, 2019, we randomly allocated 12 009 patients to receive tranexamic acid (5994, 49·9%) or matching placebo (6015, 50·1%), of whom 11 952 (99·5%) received the first dose of the allocated treatment. Death due to bleeding within 5 days of randomisation occurred in 222 (4%) of 5956 patients in the tranexamic acid group and in 226 (4%) of 5981 patients in the placebo group (risk ratio [RR] 0·99, 95% CI 0·82–1·18). Arterial thromboembolic events (myocardial infarction or stroke) were similar in the tranexamic acid group and placebo group (42 [0·7%] of 5952 vs 46 [0·8%] of 5977; 0·92; 0·60 to 1·39). Venous thromboembolic events (deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism) were higher in tranexamic acid group than in the placebo group (48 [0·8%] of 5952 vs 26 [0·4%] of 5977; RR 1·85; 95% CI 1·15 to 2·98). Interpretation: We found that tranexamic acid did not reduce death from gastrointestinal bleeding. On the basis of our results, tranexamic acid should not be used for the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding outside the context of a randomised trial

Diane Wood Oral History Interview

Diane Wood grew up in a Union family where her father was a member and Business Agent (BA) for Local 481 of the Ironworkers Union in Texas. In 1969, Wood worked as a Clerk at the Kroger Market where she also belonged to the Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU) of the AFLCIO. Moving to New Mexico in the early 1970s, Wood continued her retail and Union membership working in various grocery food chains in Albuquerque, NM. Serving in various leadership roles in the Union, she describes the fight for improved contracts. In 1982, The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) pulled in numerous small unions under a Union that would become the largest AFLCIO Union. Her long and robust Labor story includes a history of Union development in New Mexico as well as the landmark Winn Dixie Labor battle in 1977 where the Union won the day. Wood’s Labor story recounts many of the Labor battles in New Mexico around Right to Work (RTW), prevailing wage, Public Employee Bargaining (PEBA), sexual harassment on the job, and workers compensation legislation.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1029/thumbnail.jp

Rosalina Grace Oral History Interview

Rosalina Grace first worked as a switchboard operator for the phone company. She then started a job at the Convention Center Services at the City of Santa Fe NM. In 1994, when the blue collar workers were forming a Union, Grace became involved in organizing for the Union vote. She ran for Vice President of AFSCME Local 3999 and won. Grace also sat at the first contract negotiations which won benefits and pay for City workers that was heralded as the best AFSCME contract in the state of New Mexico.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1043/thumbnail.jp

Daniel Trujillo Oral History Interview

Daniel Trujillo was born in Santa Fe NM and worked a variety of jobs (hospitality, construction, and the movie industry) before he started work in the Streets Department for the City of Santa Fe. Starting off in Maintenance (street patching) and then moving to heavy equipment operator, Trujillo joined AFSCME Local 3999 and became a Chief Seward representing City workers in contract negotiations and workplace grievances. He worked with Local 3999 on bringing front line supervisors into the bargaining unit. When he became President of the City of Santa Fe\u27s AFSCME Local in 2008, the City and country were experiencing the great economic recession. Despite the downturn, Trujillo negotiated a contract that guaranteed his members\u27 pay as well as prevented furloughs in City of Santa Fe jobs.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1062/thumbnail.jp

Frank Froschle Oral History Interview

Frank Froschle started his Union life working as a Union bricklayer apprentice during his college summer breaks. Froschle then joined the very first Peace Corps cohort in 1961. Upon returning from the Philippines, he made his way to Chicago IL where he participated in social activism in civil rights and the anti-war movement. After finishing his RN degree in 1971, he worked in various nursing jobs around the country and finally arrived in Crownpoint NM where he worked for the Indian Health Service. In 1981, he started work at St. Vincent\u27s Hospital in Santa Fe; he also joined 1199NM. Froschle describes Union actions and events that occurred from 1981 to the present as the hospital transitioned to Christus St. Vincent\u27s in Santa Fe, NM.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1027/thumbnail.jp

Delma Delora Oral History Interview

Delma Delora talks about her work at St. Vincent\u27s and Christus St. Vincent\u27s in Santa Fe, NM where she started as an LPN in 1962 working in the emergency room. Delora describes the changes that she has seen in the provision of health care over her long career as an RN in which she worked in various departments including the cancer ward with AIDs patients during the 1980s. Delora\u27s union membership takes shape in 1974, acting as the President of the Professional Performance Association (PPA) at St. Vincents. She emphasizes the importance of the Taft Hartley Act of 1974 which gave nurses the right to organize a union and bargain collectively. In the 1980s, the Union decided to affiliate with a national union, and they became District 1199 NM Hospital Workers Union. Delora\u27s life of Union and social and economic activism contributes a long and rich Labor history story in New Mexico.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1025/thumbnail.jp

Suzanne Shannon Oral History Interview

Suzanne Shannon recounts her Labor story starting with a job as a part time secretary for the Bernalillo County Central Labor Council (BCCLC) in 1972. In a few years, she was encouraged to run and won as the first woman President of the BCCLC. She also worked part time with the NM State Federation of Labor and became a member of OPEIU (Office and Professional Employees International Union). Describing a passion for the Labor Movement and Labor issues, Shannon shares a time when Unions had power in New Mexico to win legislative support for workers’ issues. Noting also the emergence of women’s rights in the 1970s, Shannon describes her work with the Women in Construction project of the NM State Department of Labor and the Building Trades Council (1970s).https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1034/thumbnail.jp

Robert Bob Ryan Oral History Interview

Bob Ryan worked 43 years as a Union member, leader, and trainer for the Sheet Metal Workers Union (now SMART). Ryan was born in Northern Colorado. His dad apprenticed and attained his journeyman\u27s license at the Sheet Metal Workers\u27 Union in Boulder CO. The family moved to Albuquerque and Ryan\u27s dad affiliated with the El Paso Local #188 until Local #49 was chartered in 1963. Ryan apprenticed to the Sheet Metal Workers\u27 Union (SMWIA) from 1954-1958. In 1958, he started his Union apprentice teaching career which lasted 40 years. Ryan lays out a history of the times from the 1960s to the present and the role of Local #49 in its development of benefits (pension, health care, and wages), apprenticeship training, and legislation. Ryan shares an important chapter of Labor history from the building trades in creating the local technical college (TV-I, now CNM). Ryan joins his dad and his son, Michael, to represent three generations of Presidents of Local #49.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1058/thumbnail.jp

Bob Eichhorst Oral History Interview

Bob Eicchorst heralds from a Union family. His grandfather and father worked as Union carpenters, and his sons, wife and daughter belong to a Union. Eichhorst shares his work experience starting with his apprenticeship and licensing in UA Local 412 (United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 412) in 1972 through to retirement in 2014. During his 42 years on the job, he worked on major construction projects including Intel in Rio Rancho and the Sandia Base. Eichhorst has been teaching in the UA 412 Apprenticeship Program for 20 years, and he provides a strong case for the value of Union training and workplace safety. Eichhorst also reflects on the legislative challenge of yearly Right to Work legislation in New Mexico.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/wphnm/1022/thumbnail.jp