Labor Photo: Council Website Wins Front Page Award
Friday, April 6, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Metro Council Union City staffers Chris
Garlock, Julia Kann and former staffer Adam
Wright accepted the “Distinguished Website
Design” award at the Newspaper Guild’s
Front Page Awards on March 31. The annual
awards are given by the Newspaper Guild,
TNG-CWA Local 32035 to recognize the best work
by its members during the previous calendar
year. Other winners included Jamie
Smith-Hopkins for his Baltimore Sun story last
year investigating the impact of home mortgage
defaults on city housing prices, and Washington
Post photographer Mark Gail for his picture of
a boxer carefully prepping for his next bout.
The union also honored members and units for
outstanding service in 2011 to their
organizations or to the Guild, including the
brand-new Connie Knox Memorial Award “for
long and distinguished service to the
Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild” which
was given, posthumously, to Ms. Knox, who died
last year just after her retirement as
International Chair of The Newspaper Guild-CWA.
Another Guild Service award, for outstanding
customer service to the winner’s
organization, was been renamed in honor of the
late J. Darlene Meyer of the Post, the WBNG
Vice President who died in January. Meyer, the
paper’s specialist in legal advertising and a
veteran leader of WBNG’s unit at the paper,
was also honored posthumously with the award.
James Crudup of the Washington Post was named
the 2011 Organizer of the Year “for
outstanding recruitment efforts in a unit,”
and Dawan Jones of the National Association of
Social Workers was awarded the Nadine Grinder
Memorial Award for 2011 Steward of the
Year. - photo
(left to right) of Kann, Wright, WBNG President
Sheila Lindsay, Garlock, and Front Page
Committee Chairman Mark Gruenberg; photo by
Lisa Garlock