JAMES T. CALLAHAN is the General President of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), a union that resents over 400,000 men and women in the United States and Canada. Above all, Jim Callahan is a proud Irish American with his Irish lineage extending from Co Limerick through his grandparents, John Joseph and Alice Callahan and Co Kerry through Michael Francis Lyon, who was also an Operating Engineer. Jim is the President of the New York Friends of Ireland and through the Operating Engineers, he led the delegation to Derry, Ireland for the opening of the James Connolly Cultural Center.