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title: Business Manager believes hard work is key to earning respect
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Season 3, Episode 257

# Business Manager believes hard work is key to earning respect

[ awfblog ](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/author/awfblog)  December 29, 2022

[IBEW](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/ibew) [America's Work Force Union Podcast](https://awf.labortools.com/listen/tag/americas-work-force-union-podcast)

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Dan Gallagher

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[https://ibew38.org/](https://ibew38.org/) 

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Dan Gallagher, Business Manager/Financial Secretary for the [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 38](https://ibew38.org/), joined the America’s Work Force Union Podcast and discussed the importance of a good work ethic and how it will create career opportunities.  

Gallagher, a third-generation wireman, is a 30-year member of Local 38. Over the course of his career, he found that giving a hard day’s work will help you earn the respect of fellow electricians and it may also open up opportunities for career advancement. He then discussed a few of the traits apprentices need to stay on the pathway to the middle class. 

Gallagher also spoke about the next IBEW International President Kenneth W. Cooper, who is from Ohio. Cooper begins his new position in January and Gallagher is positive Cooper will move the union forward.

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 America’s Work Force is the only daily labor podcast in the US and has been on the air since 1993, supplying listeners with useful, relevant input into their daily lives through fact-finding features, in-depth interviews, informative news segments and practical consumer reports. America’s Work Force is committed to providing an accessible venue in which America's workers and their families can hear discussion on important, relevant topics such as employment, healthcare, legislative action, labor-management relations, corporate practices, finances, local and national politics, consumer reports and labor issues.

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