Instituto Laboral de la Raza 2011 National Labor-Community Awards

Friday, February 18th, 2011 Reception and Media Coverage: 5:00pm Dinner and Awards: 6:30pm Hotel Marriott Marquis — San Francisco 55 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA

2011 Honorees

Guest of Honor & Labor Leader of the Year Edwin D. Hill

LA RAZA Congressional Leadership Award Senator Barbara Boxer (US Senate, CA)

LA RAZA CIVIL RIGHTS AWARD Alice A. Huffman

Jim Rush Labor and Community Activist Award Earl “Marty” Averette

La Raza SAN PATRICIO Leadership Award George Landers

La Raza Corporate Leadership Award Josh Becker

Curt flood labor-community award Major League Baseball Players Association Welcome Instituto Laboral de la Raza Instituto Laboral de la Raza STAFF 2947 16th STREET • SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103

SARAH M. SHAKER Dear Labor Friends and Supporters: Executive Director Welcome to the Instituto Laboral de la Raza’s 2011 National Labor-Community Awards. This evening we BRIAN E. WEBSTER honor Edwin D. Hill, International President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, our Chief of Staff and Events Manager Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year. According to the Huffington Post, President Hill “is a leading voice for a balanced and practical approach to the nation’s pursuit of energy independence“... and he expands “the role of job training … seeking to combat global warming.” DOUG HAAKE WALTER SANCHEZ Legal Aid Legal Aid and Program Manager We are very proud of our U.S. Senator, Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Senator Boxer is a true fighter for liberal causes. Senator Boxer, like the late Senator Ted Kennedy, truly cares for the rights of the working man and ROSA ARGENTINA OATES ISENIA D. ESTUPINIAN woman, and she will not compromise on her convictions. No compromises for Senator Boxer! Her Motto – Community Outreach Legal Aid “Vote Your Conscience”! JENNIFER RUSH NELSON ALVARENGA We welcome California NAACP President, Alice A. Huffman who has been a strong voice for the needs of Administrative Assistant Receptionist low income African Americans, as well as a catalyst to help students in low performing schools to rise up and excel! Our own Earl “Marty” Averette we honor for his tireless advocacy on behalf of IBT Union freight workers and his community Unionism – educating, organizing and fighting for the rights of the unorganized working poor. BOARD OF DIRECTORS UFCW Western States Council Executive Director George Landers is a powerful advocate for the rights of working families in the Western United States, and Josh Becker, our local and progressive entrepreneur, is JAIME T. GONZALEZ DAN RUSH helping California in the transition to “green jobs, energy independence, and a prosperous future.” Executive Board President Executive Board Treasurer Teamsters Local No. 97 (IBT) United Food and Commercial We present a special tribute to the Late Curt Flood. We honored Curt in 1987 for his stand against the reserve Workers Union Local 5 (UFCW5) clause in professional baseball. His case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Curt’s actions lead the way for free agents throughout all of professional sports. He was a great athlete, a renaissance man, eminently courageous and a man of honor. BRIAN McWILLIAMS EARL (MARTY) AVERETTE OSCAR DE LA TORRE Executive Board Secretary Teamsters Union Local 856 (IBT) NCDCL - LIUNA All net proceeds from this Event fund our critical educational and labor services for California’s unorganized Ship Clerks Union Local 34 (ILWU) working poor. We now look forward to providing you with entertainment, inspiration and a renewed call for the empowerment of all workers. Enjoy your evening. FRANK MARTIN DEL CAMPO SAMUEL ROBINSON JOHN ULRICH Local 1021 (SEIU) Hod Carriers Local 166 UFCW Local 5 In Unity, (LIUNA) FREDDY F. SANCHEZ LAURIE MESA RUDY GONZALEZ UFCW Local 5 UFCW Local 5 Teamsters Local 856 Sarah M. Shaker Executive Director Instituto Laboral de la Raza

2 3 Instituto Laboral de la Raza Instituto Laboral de la Raza 2947 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 2947 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tel: (415) 431-7522 Fax: (415) 431-4846 Tel: (415) 431-7522 Fax: (415) 431-4846 www.ilaboral.org www.ilaboral.org

About the Instituto Laboral de la Raza

For nearly 30 years, the Instituto Laboral de la Raza has served low income families of California as a nonprofit advocacy and workers’ resource center in the Mission District of San Francisco. Most of its clients are unorganized working poor immigrants from Mexico, Central America and South America.

The Mission of the Instituto Laboral de la Raza is to provide labor rights education and legal advocacy to obtain unpaid wages and other denied benefits for the unorganized working poor. It works in collaboration with other neighborhood organizations to effectively manage all other critical needs for the economic, health and social welfare of these disadvantaged, disparaged families.

The Goal of the Instituto Laboral de la Raza is to attack the root causes of systemic poverty of people from all social and ethnic backgrounds through programs that stabilize them in their communities, and to build leadership skills so that they may contribute to the economic, social and cultural enrichment of their communities.

Founded in 1982 by Jose E. Medina and community labor leaders, the Instituto, through its community unionism program, also provides workers with information to assist them to seek employment opportunities through Union hiring halls as well as to provide them the means to organize in their workplaces. The Instituto Laboral de la Raza has both community activists and labor leaders that sit on its Board of Directors. Its Advisory Board includes men and women from Organized Labor, from the legal and religious community, as well as grassroots activists.

Instituto Laboral de la Raza is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. It does not charge for any of its services. It is funded by donations, grants and sponsorship by Unions and select businesses. It produces an annual fundraising Labor Community Award Dinner that is the largest in the U.S. Donations are tax deductible in accordance with section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code.

4 5 EDWIN HILL International President, International Brotherhood of Instituto Laboral de la Raza ADVISORY BOARD Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO Guest of Honor ANTONIO ABARCA JOSE E. MEDINA UHW West – SEIU Founding Member & Labor Leader of the Year Exectutive Director Emeritus ROBERT S. ARNS Attorney ROBERT MORALES On January 29, 2001, Edwin D. Hill was appointed Arns Law Firm Teamsters Joint Council 7 International President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 350 Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, and later elected President DONALD C. CARROLL at the IBEW’s 36th International Convention, held in San Francisco, California, in September Attorney TEAGUE PATERSON 2001 and re-elected at the 37th International Convention held in Cleveland, Ohio, in September of Carroll & Scully Inc. Attorney 2006. Mr. Hill assumed this position after serving the IBEW for over three and one half years as Beeson Tayer & Bodine both International Secretary and International Secretary-Treasurer. President Hill also serves as a FELISA CASTILLO member of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Bakers Union Local 24 EVA ROYALE Organizations. Director IGNACIO DE LA FUENTE Cesar E. Chavez Holiday Parade & Festival Edwin D. Hill brings to his offi ce over fi fty one years of experience in serving the International GMP Local 164–B Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in many areas of the union’s efforts. From his days as an apprentice ANTONIO SALAZAR-HOBSON in 1956, to his appointment and election as International President, Mr. Hill has dedicated himself to D. ALBERTO GARCIA Attorney the welfare of the members not only of the IBEW but of all working men and women. His concern Attorney for the fi nancial stability of his union and the fi scal security of its members has led to his involvement CHARLES P. SCULLY II as Trustee of the National Electrical Benefi t Fund and as Secretary of the National Electrical Annuity JUAN GOMEZ Attorney Fund. Mr. Hill also serves as Trustee of both the IBEW Offi cers and Representatives and Offi ce Window Cleaners Union Local 44 Carroll & Scully Inc. Employees Pension Plans. From 1982 to 1994 Edwin Hill held the offi ce of IBEW Third District Offi ce International Representative and from 1994 – 1997, as International Vice President for the CELIA HALSEY HOWARD WALLACE Third District. Community Activist MICHAEL HARDEMAN While at Local Union 712, Ed was active on various committees, he was appointed and served as Sign Display Local 510 PHIL WELTIN the fi rst Registrar in 1961, President and co-founder of the Credit Union, founder of the Scholarship Attorney Fund, served as Vice President and President from 1964 – 1970, and from 1970 to 1982, Business Weltin Law O ces, P.C. SISTER KATHLEEN HEALY Manager. Ed served as Vice President and COPE Chairman for the Beaver County Central Labor PBVM Council from 1972 to 1977, and held posts on the Beaver County Building Trades Council from 1970 SADIE WILLIAMS St. Teresa’s Catholic Church to 1978, serving as Treasurer, Vice President and COPE Chairman. He has also held positions on Founding Member Board President Emeritus the Executive Committee and the Executive Council of the Pennsylvania State AFL-CIO from 1976 DONNA LEVITT until 1997. O ce of Labor Standards Enforcement

6 7 Mr. Hill’s sense of community responsibility can be measured by his involvement in countless community based activities including: The March of Dimes, the YMCA, the Executive Committee of the United Way, Beaver County Council for Economic Development and the Governor’s Committee for Economic Development serving as Chairman in 1995. In addition, he sat on the Advisory Boards of Penn State and Geneve College and served on the Beaver County Medical Center’s Board of Directors from 1976 to 1996.

Edwin Hill graduated from Freedom Area High School, Freedom, Pennsylvania. He completed courses at Penn State as well as completed labor courses, at the University of Indiana Pennsylvania and the George Meany Center for Labor Studies.

Even with his demanding schedule, Ed still found a little time to enjoy some of his favorite pastimes over the years of golf, skiing, snowmobiling, racquetball and most recently riding his Harley.

8 9 BARBARA BOXER United States Senate — California La Raza Congressional Leadership Award A forceful advocate for families, children, consumers, the environment, and her State of California, Barbara Boxer became a United States Senator in January 1993 after 10 years of service in the House of Representatives and six years on the Marin County Board of Supervisors. Elected to a third term in 2004, she received more than 6.9 million votes, the highest total for any Senate candidate in American history.

A national leader on environmental protection, Senator Boxer is the fi rst woman to Chair the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). She is a powerful advocate for clean air and water, and focuses much of her Committee work on climate change, transportation and infrastructure. Senator Boxer has won numerous awards for her efforts to create a cleaner, healthier environment.

A champion of quality public education, Senator Boxer wrote landmark legislation establishing the fi rst- ever federal funding for afterschool programs. Her law now covers 1.4 million children. Boxer was also a leading fi gure in negotiating language to protect children from lead and other dangerous chemicals. A strong proponent of life-saving medical research, Senator Boxer wrote bipartisan legislation to accelerate America’s contribution to combat global HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. She wrote a bill to make health insurance tax deductible and another bill to let any American buy into the same health insurance program that members of Congress are provided. She authored the bipartisan “Caring for An Aging America Act of 2009,” legislation to fund educational loan forgiveness and training for healthcare professionals who make a commitment to caring for older adults.

A leading defender of a woman’s right to choose, Senator Boxer helped lead the fl oor fi ght for passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. She continues to lead efforts to stop extremists in Congress from weakening a woman’s right to privacy. Senator Boxer has worked to pass targeted tax cuts to help revitalize the economy by supporting a permanent Research and Development tax credit, accelerated depreciation of new business equipment, and tax credits for broadband investments focused on rural and underserved areas.

In addition to her Chairmanship of the EPW Committee, Senator Boxer also serves on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where she chairs the Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women’s Issues. Senator Boxer also chairs the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, making her the only sitting Senator to hold two Committee Chairmanships. Senator Boxer is also a member of the Democratic leadership in the Senate, serving as the Chief Deputy Whip since 2005. Senator Barbara Boxer met her husband of 48 years, Stewart Boxer, at Brooklyn College. The couple moved to California in 1965 to raise their two children, Doug and Nicole. They have been blessed with four grandchildren—Zachary, Zain, Sawyer and Reyna.

10 11 ALICE HUFFMAN President, California NAACP La Raza Civil Rights Award

Alice A. Huffman began her tenure as President of the California NAACP January 2000. Under her leadership, the organization has accelerated into one of the most sought after organizations in California’s policy arena. The State NAACP offi ce is in downtown Sacramento two blocks from the state Capitol. She employs a small staff to advocate on key civil rights issues. She believes that the NAACP is the constant voice for low income African Americans and students trapped in low performing schools or the criminal justice system. She is a member of the National Board of Directors of the NAACP.

Huffman is President, and CEO of her consulting fi rm A.C. Public Affairs, Inc. (ACPA). ACPA is a California Corporation specializing in initiative campaigns, strategic public policy issues and grass roots organizing. ACPA founded in 1988 can proudly boast of many distinguished national and state clients.

Huffman is a member of the newly elected Attorney General’s transition team. She is also assisting the Governor in appointments in his new administration. In 2010 she was appointed to University of California President’s Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, & Inclusion. Huffman is an appointee of Governor Swarzenegger’s to the State Parks and Recreation Commission and the California Complete Count Committee for the 2010 Census. She serves on the Board of the Center for Democratic Participation; is a member of the California Democratic Party Executive Committee; and a member of the Democratic National Committee.

Huffman, a high school dropout, was admitted to UC Berkeley as an EOP student from which she graduated in 2 ½ years with honors in Social and Cultural Anthropology. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

She did extensive graduate work in University of Pennsylvania, U.C. Berkeley and USC. She believes learning is a lifelong process. She has many distinguished awards. The most recent received in 2009-10, were the CA Legislative Black Caucus Heritage and Legends Award; the Grand Marshall California Black Media; The National NAACP Thalheimer Award.

Huffman devotes a signifi cant amount of her time to the NAACP specializing in organizational development and leadership training. She enjoys outstanding relations with the NAACP local, community, state and national leaders.

Huffman has been a resident of Sacramento for 38 years and after the passing of her late husband in 2005 lives alone with her Yorkie, Lishous.

12 13 Negotiating Committee, DHL/Express; National Negotiating Committee, DHL/Global EARL “MARTY” AVERETTE Forwarding; Committee Freight Industry of Joint Council No. 7, Western Region, Sergeant- Business Representative, Teamsters Local 856 at-Arms.

IBT Freight Division Representative Since 1995, Earl has been an active Union Representative for Teamsters Local 856. Earl Jim Rush Labor and and his wife of 43 years, Helen, have raised four children and four grandchildren. A devoted Community Activist Award family man, Earl has committed his efforts to helping all people in need. He serves as a Board Member of the Instituto Laboral de la Raza.

Earl “Marty” Averette is a 45-year Union activist, born in Canton, Ohio to a family of leaders in other fi elds. His mother, Estella, was the fi rst African-American nurse in Canton, Ohio. His father, Earl, worked in the steel mill industry as a labor representative. Earl had one goal for his children… that they would all earn PhD degrees. Earl’s brother, Derrick, was a communications specialist in the Army and worked as a special agent for the CIA. His other two brothers, Arvis and Eddie, are recognized educators at the University of Chicago and the University of San Diego, respectively.

Earl himself was an educator of sorts … in the boxing ring for ten years as an amateur and as a professional boxer. As an amateur boxer in 1966, he was a fi nalist in the National Heavyweight Golden Gloves Title. Also in 1966, Earl became mentor and trainer of Ronnie Harris (also from Canton, Ohio) who became the 1968 Olympic Gold Champion, Lightweight Division. Earl returned to Ohio in 1968 and won the heavyweight title for the state of Ohio as well as the National A.A.U. Tournament. That year, Earl defeated the No. 5 world lightweight champion, Marion Conner, a childhood friend, for the heavyweight title, State of Ohio.

Earl fought Buster Mathis early in his professional career and at one time sparred with 1968 Heavyweight Olympic Champion, George Foreman.

Earl ended his boxing career here in the Bay Area and became a member of the Teamsters Union, working at Robertson Drayage. Recognized as one of the most innovative Teamsters business agents on the West Coast, Earl began working in the freight and produce industry in 1968. As a volunteer organizer, Earl never backed away from a picket line in those early days of organizing with Teamsters Local No. 856. Earl also worked for and was a member of the Laborers’ Union (LIUNA).

Earl was the fi rst African-American IBT Freight Representative, Western Region (2006-2010), appointed by Teamsters’ General President James P. Hoffa. Other appointments by President Hoffa include: JWAC Grievance Committee, Sergeant-at- Arms; National Negotiating Committee for Continental Airlines, Joint Council 7- Sergeant-at-Arms; National

14 15 GEORGE LANDERS Executive Director, UFCW Western States Council La Raza San Patricio Award George began his career with UFCW in 1990. While working in Michigan, George went to work for Local 951 UFCW, a statewide local, as a Union Representative. Two years later, he was asked if he would take the position of Legislate and Political Representative. During the following three years, Local 951 participation in state political races grew as did its ability to raise voluntary membership hard money contributions. And in 1995 the local was recognized by the International Union for their improvement. During that time George was asked to take an assignment at the International Headquarters in the Political Department. During the next eleven years he was assigned to the Political Department as well as the Field Services Department and Strategic Programs Department, all the time working the political component of all assignments.

In 1998, George oversaw the International Union’s fi eld program, in California, to battle Prop 226. Later that year, he went on to supervise UFCW’s efforts to defeat paycheck deception in Oregon with the “No on 92 and 98” campaign. In 2000 he returned to Oregon for several months to co- manage the “No on 59” Paycheck deception campaign again and coordinate UFCW’s efforts in Oregon on the Presidential campaign. In 2001 George was sent to Oklahoma to fi ght the Right to Work legislative effort. He was successful at coordinating a voter registration program that attained a 100% sign up for all voter-eligible UFCW members, in Southern Oklahoma.

For almost the next two years, George worked in Washington State, working with both labor and coalition partners, to lay the foundation for the “Fair Share Health Care” campaign, In the spring of 2004 George returned on loan to the Political Department to assist in the International’s efforts in the Presidential election.

In 2006, George was elected as the Executive Director of UFCW Western States Council. The Council Director coordinates statewide legislative and political action among the local unions and almost 200,000 members in California, Arizona and Nevada. George is a Vice President of the California Labor Federation and also sits on the Federation Strategic Planning Committee, as well as various ad hoc committees.

George was born and raised in the blue collar neighborhood of South Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were both the children of Irish immigrants. He is an Army veteran and is married to his lovely Bolivian wife Silvia. George spent several years as a police offi cer in Washington DC. He also spent nine years as a Union Representative with HERE, in Washington DC and Detroit, MI.

16 17 JOSH BECKER General Partner & CoFounder New Cycle Capital La Raza Corporate Leadership Award

Josh Becker is a Green Energy Entrepreneur who for over 20 years has worked at the nexus of community activism, technology, environmentalism, and social justice. Uniting entrepreneurial expertise with a passion for social change, Josh co-founded New Cycle Capital, a pioneer in building socially responsible businesses.

The child of an educator and social worker, Josh Becker grew up in suburban Pennsylvania. He fi rst felt called to fi ght for social justice in college, where he joined the Williams College chapter of MassPIRG (Public Interest Research Group) and grew the chapter to the largest in the state. Josh led organizing efforts on campus and in the community to build support for progressive legislation, most notably the 1989 Toxic Use Reduction Act (TURN), now a national model.

After graduation, Josh turned his passion for progressive organizing into a career. He worked to elect Democrats in tough swing districts fi rst as a Field Organizer then Communications Director. Josh then went to the Capitol, working fi rst consulting to the EPA on environmental markets, then as a Congressional aide.

Josh earned a joint MBA and Law Degree from Stanford University in 1999. While a student, Josh co- founded and managed the Stanford Board of Fellows program, which trains students to serve on the boards of local non-profi ts, engaging them in social progress at the beginning of their careers, rather than the end. So far almost 1,000 MBAs have been trained by the Board Fellows program and it has been used as a model by dozens of other schools across the country serving more than 250 non-profi t organizations a year.

While working in the green energy & technology sectors, Josh built upon the Stanford Fellows program model to found the non-profi t collaborative Full Circle Fund (FCF). FCF is a grant-making and civic participation organization that brings together resources from donors and skills from individuals to fund, design and support local, statewide and national programs providing tangible benefi ts in their communities.

Josh has worked with the Obama administration on green energy and education policy, for example, to develop the PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) bonds. These bonds allow municipalities to fi nance and manage renewable energy retrofi ts on residential properties, with minimal front-end cost to homeowners while simultaneously creating local, green collar jobs. Josh’s passion for education lead him to co-found National Lab Day, a program endorsed by the Obama administration which pairs experts in the fi elds of math and science with high school students, educators and volunteers to increase learning comprehension in these critical fi elds at no cost to local school districts.

In addition to his non-profi t work at Full Circle Fund, Josh is the co-founder of SmartTransportation.org, current Treasurer and incoming Chairman of the University of California at Merced Foundation Board of Trustees, and serves on the National Board of Directors for One Economy.

18 19 and Dave McNally of the Montreal Expos played without contracts, and then declared MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL themselves free agents in response to an arbitrator's ruling. Handcuffed by concessions made in the Flood case, the owners had no choice but to accept the collective bargaining PLAYERS ASSOCIATION package offered by the MLBPA, and the The Union of Professional Major League reserve clause was effectively ended, to be replaced by the current system of free-agency Baseball Players and arbitration. Over 27 percent of Major League Baseball players are born outside Curt Flood Labor-Community Award the 50 states. Venezuelan-born Colorado Rockies outfi elder The Major League Baseball Players Association González was selected the 2010 Player of the Year by the Major has a rich legacy starting with negotiating the League Baseball Players Association. Carlos González played for the fi rst-ever collective bargaining agreement in In 1987 Instituto Laboral De La Raza was very fortunate Oakland Athletics in 2008. professional sports. The MLBPA is widely to have Curt Flood attend our Labor-Community Awards considered one of the strongest unions in the Dinner as Guest of Honor. We honored him for his country. In 2010 the MLBPA public stand in opposition to Arizona law SB1070 was a signifi cant example of historic challenge to professional baseball’s reserve clause its long commitment to the cause of civil rights. The Union has demonstrated its commitment to supporting that helped pioneer the way for free agents throughout players caring and commitment to people in need by forming the Players Trust, the fi rst of its kind in professional sports. Instituto Laboral de la Raza has professional sports. The MLBPA is a union that is united, powerful and effective. It has a strong tradition created an annual Labor-Community Award to honor his of organizing players, developing consensus with fellow labor organizations and solidarity with community legacy and raise the banner of Organized Labor, personal based organizations. leadership and civil rights. Our goal is to honor every year a different professional sports players association with the Curt Flood Labor-Community Award.

Marvin Miller announces to reporters that the The Major League Baseball Players Association is the 13-day-old baseball strike of 1972 has ended. The collective bargaining representative for all professional players behind him are (from left): Gary Peters of the baseball players of the 30 Major League Baseball teams Red Sox, Wes Parker of the Dodgers and Joe Torre of the Cardinals and serves as the exclusive group licensing agent for ^ Michael Weiner, MLBPA Executive Director commercial and licensing activities involving active Major League baseball The Major League Baseball Players’ Union issued a Marvin Miller served as executive director of the players. On behalf of its members, it operates the Players Choice licensing statement condeming the Arizona SB 1070 immigration Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966 through 1983, transforming the association program and Players Choice Awards, which benefi t the needy through the law. MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner says that the law “could have a negative impact on hundreds fi rst into a bona fi de labor union then gradually Major League Baseball Players Trust, a charitable foundation established and of Major League players who are citizens of countries into one of the strongest collective bargaining run entirely by Major League baseball players. other than the United States.” units in the United States.

The Major League Baseball Players Association was founded in 1966 when professional baseball players recruited the help of labor union activist Marvin The Instituto Supports Miller to form the union. At that time the era of the reserve clause, which Inducting Curt Flood and held players to one team, was coming toward an end. The fi rst legal challenge Marvin Miller into the National came in 1970. Backed by the MLBPA, St. Louis Cardinals outfi elder Curt Flood took the leagues to court to negate a player trade, citing the 13th The Major League Baseball Players Trust is the Baseball Hall of Fame! Amendment and antitrust legislation. In 1972 he fi nally lost his case in the charitable foundation established and run entirely Go to: “Put Curt Flood in the United States Supreme Court by a vote of 5 to 3, but gained large-scale public by Major League baseball players. It provides a wide variety of critical community support including support Hall of Fame” on Facebook sympathy, and the damage had been done. The reserve clause survived, but Marvin Miller and Curt to youth programs, earthquake relief in Haiti and Go to: www.ThanksMarvin.com on the Web it had been irrevocably weakened. In 1975 Andy Messersmith of the Dodgers Flood Together in Court rebuilding the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina.

20 21 CURT FLOOD St. Louis Cardinals

22 23 CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE HONORABLE NANCY PELOSI, HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER Instituto Laboral de la Raza Honoree of Instituto’s 2007 La Raza Congressional Leadership Award A History of Our Labor & Community Award Dinners

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24 25 A History of Our Labor & A History of Our Labor & Community Award Dinners 1999 2000 Community Award Dinners Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco Hilton Hotel, San Francisco

Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year Patricia A. Ford Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year SEIU International Vice President John J. Sweeney AFL-CIO President Walter Johnson Secretary-Treasurer Judy Goff San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Central Labor Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO Owen Marron Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus Amy Dean Central Labor Council of Alameda County, AFL-CIO Director South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council

Jose E. Medina and Martin Sheen, Actor and Activist Founder of the Instituto Laboral de la Raza Jim Salinas, Carpenters Local No. 22; Board President of the Instituto Laboral de la Raza

26 27 A History of Our Labor & A History of Our Labor & Community Award Dinners 2001 2002 Community Award Dinners Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco

Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year Eliseo Medina James P. Hoffa SEIU International Executive Vice President IBT General President

Shelley Kessler Art Pulaski Secretary-Treasurer Executive Secretary-Treasurer San Mateo County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO Stan Warren Secretary-Treasurer and Bill A. Lloyd, SEIU Local 99 Executive Director San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council, Lilia Marlen Navarro, UNITE Textile Processors Local 75 AFL-CIO Los Bomberos de San Francisco Board Member, Instituto Laboral de la Raza

and Franklin L. Gallegos, President, Teamsters Local 890 Mike Garcia, President, SEUI Local 1877

28 29 A History of Our Labor & A History of Our Labor & Community Award Dinners 2003 2004 Community Award Dinners Hilton Hotel, San Francisco Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco

Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year Linda Chavez-Thompson Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year AFL-CIO Executive Vice President R. Thomas Buffenbarger IAMAW International President, AFL-CIO

and Bill Lockyer, California Attorney General Josie Mooney Roofers Local Union No. 40, AFL-CIO President Earl “Marty” Averette, Teamsters Local 856; San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO Board Member, Instituto Laboral de la Raza

and Hon. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), U.S. Senate Laborers’ Local No. 261

30 31 A History of Our Labor & A History of Our Labor & Community Award Dinners 2005 2006 Community Award Dinners Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco Marriott Hotel, San Francisco

Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year Robert Morales Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year Secretary-Treasurer, Teamster Local 350 Terence M. O’Sullivan Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Joint Council 7 General President President, Teamsters Hispanic Caucus Laborers’ International Union of North America

Tim Paulson and Hon. Barbara Lee (D-CA), U.S. Congress Executive Director Michael J. McLaughlin, San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 856 Larry Del Carlo, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom President, Mission Housing Development Corporation

32 33 A History of Our Labor & A History of Our Labor & Community Award Dinners 2007 2008 Community Award Dinners Marriott Hotel, San Francisco Hilton Hotel, San Francisco

Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year Anna Burger Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year General Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU Joseph T. Hansen Chair, Change to Win Federation International President Cristina R. Vazquez United Food and Commercial Workers International Union International Vice President, Western States UNITE HERE!, AFL-CIO and Hon. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), U.S. Senate Ronald J. Lind, UFCW5 President and Hon. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), German Vazquez, Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 901 House Speaker, U.S. Congress Sal Roselli, President, SEIU-UHW Robert Alvarado, Executive Offi cer, John Jatoft, CA State Director, American Income Life Northern California Carpenters Regional Council Daniel Kane, Sr., Vice President, IBT Eastern Region President, Teamsters Local No. 111 Mike Borstel, President, UCW Local No. 101 Teamsters Joint Council No. 7

34 35 A History of Our Labor & A History of Our Labor & Community Award Dinners 2009 2010 Community Award Dinners Hilton Hotel, San Francisco United Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco

Guest of Honor and Sister of the Year María Elena Durazo Guest of Honor and Labor Leader of the Year Executive Secretary-Treasurer Richard L. Trumka Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO President, AFL-CIO and Bob Menendez, United States Senator (NJ) Guest of Honor and Brother of the Year George L. Miranda Ron Burkle, Yucaipa Companies President, Teamsters Joint Council 16 Esther López, Civil Rights & Community Action Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local 210 Director, UFCW International Lucio M. Reyes, Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters and Hon. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL), U.S. Congress Local 601 Paul A. Kenny, President, Food & Drug Council, Inc. Ironworkers 377, San Francisco Secretary-Treasurer, Teamsters Local No. 630 Jacques Loveall, President, UFCW 8 Golden State John J. Gerow Principal Offi cer and President, Teamsters Local 97

36 37 Special Acknowledgements Are Gratefully Extended To The Following Friends and Supporters:

GOLD SPONSORS IBEW Local No. 47 (Diamond Bar, CA) UFCW Western States Council (Buena Park, CA) International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, (Washington, DC) AT&T Corporation (San Francisco, CA) Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, CA) American Income Life Company (Concord, CA) UFCW Local 5

SILVER SPONSORS Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA – D.C.) California Applicants Attorneys Association (Sacramento, CA) IBEW Local No. 6 (San Francisco, CA) UFCW Local No. 1167 (Bloomington, CA) UFCW 8 Golden State (Roseville, CA) IBEW Local No. 617 (San Mateo, CA) UA Plumbers and Pipefitters (Washington, DC) UA Plumbers and Pipefitters, Local 342 (Concord, CA) AECOM Tech Corporation (Los Angeles, CA) Southern California Edison US Bank (California) PG&E (San Francisco, CA) California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco, CA) Blue Shield of California

ON BEHALF OF OUR STAFF, BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND OUR ADVISORY BOARD WE EXTEND OUR SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR YOUR GENEROSITY

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On behalf of the International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers

General President Joseph Hunt General Secretary Walter Wise General Treasurer Edward McHugh General Vice President Gordon Struss General Vice President George Kratzer General Vice President Richard Ward General Vice President Edward Walsh General Vice President Jay Hurley General Vice President Joe Standley General Vice President Tadas Kicielinski General Vice President Eric Dean General Vice President Marvin Ragsdale

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