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Labor Roundtable award winners
The Labor Roundtable of Southwest Washington held its 19th annual awards banquet Sept. 25 at the Vancouver
Hilton Hotel and Convention Center. Awards were presented to from left to right: Dave Johnston, representing
IBEW Local 48, “Union of the Year;” Gay Lincoln, Machinists Lodge 1005, “Labor Leader of the Year;” retired
federal mediator Paul Stuckenschneider, “Community Service Award;” Kathy and Lee Duncan, members of
IBEW Local 48, “Union Members of the Year;” and Port of Vancouver Commission President Nancy Baker,
“Special Appreciation Award.” Not pictured is Tom Burkholder, a retired member of the former Oil Chemical
and Atomic Workers Union, who received a “Lifetime Achievement Award.”
AFL-CIO creates Union Veterans Council
At the national AFL-CIO’s mid-Sep-
tember convention in Pittsburgh, dele-
gates passed a resolution creating the
Union Veterans Council as a new AFL-
CIO “constituency group.” AFL-CIO
constituency groups are organizations
made up of union members from AFL-
CIO-affiliated unions that serve as la-
bor’s outreach to particular communi-
ties, and make sure their perspectives
are represented at AFL-CIO bodies.
In the case of the Union Veterans
Council, it’s meant to bring together
union members who are veterans — to
speak out on veterans issues and sup-
port the appointment of labor-friendly
veterans to government agencies.
The AFL-CIO has six other con-
stituency groups: A. Philip Randolph
Institute, Asian Pacific American Labor
Alliance, Coalition of Black Trade
Unionists, Coalition of Labor Union
Women, Labor Council for Latin Amer-
ican Advancement, and Pride At Work.
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