Isabel Soisson at Up North News Wisconsin reports on the Father-and-Son Union Team - Levar Wilson, Sr. and Levar Wilson, Jr., whose lives have been changed by Working Union.  Levar Wilson, Sr. knows what a Union can provide.  The 45-year-old Milwaukee resident has spent the past 22 years in the Skilled Trades, working his way up from being a paid Apprentice to a Union Glazier installing aluminum, glass, mirrors, doors, and handrails in buildings - “basically anything that had to do with glass on a commercial level.”  He currently serves as a Field Representative and Organizer with his Union - International Union of Painters and Allied Trades-District Council 7 (IUPAT-DC 7).  His Son, Wilson, Jr. initially enrolled in a local university, attending for about three years - but having seen how the trades changed his Father’s life, he realized he wanted the same for himself and decided the trades were a better fit than higher education.  At 23, Wilson Jr. began his Apprenticeship with IUPAT-DC 7.  Now 26, he’s in the third year of his Apprenticeship, working to become a Union Glazier, just like his Dad.  “Everyone wants that American Dream, that financial freedom,” Wilson, Sr. said. “A Union Job gives you that.”

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