CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia AFL-CIO President Josh Sword and Secretary-Treasurer Andy Walters were unanimously re-elected this week to four-year terms during the organization's 31st Constitutional Convention in Charleston.

About 150 union members from roughly 80 local union affiliates representing over 30 international unions met Tuesday and Wednesday for the convention, which convenes every four years. They chose Sword and Walters to lead the West Virginia labor federation, along with the 16 members of the WV AFL-CIO Executive Board.

Sword was first elected president of the West Virginia AFL-CIO at the 2017 Constitutional Convention and then re-elected in 2022. He previously served as secretary-treasurer of the state federation from 2013 until his appointment as president in Janua

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