Labor on the Move: Kenefick Retires

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)After more than 45 years in the labor movement, communicator Greg Kenefick retired on April 30. Kenefick was Communications Director for the American Federation of Government Employees in the 1970s and also worked for the International Association of Machinists. As head of Kenefick Communications since 1986, he specialized in writing, publications and public relations for union clients including CWA, AFGE, IAM, the Metal Trades Department and the Union Label Department of the AFL-CIO. Earlier in his career, Kenefick worked as an editor at Merkle Press and served on the executive board of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild; he earned a BS in Journalism at the University of Maryland. Kenefick’s daughters, Tara Landis and Lisa Gebbia, say they plan to continue to operate Kenefick Communications “in the same feisty tradition as our dad." - photo of Kenefick (in blue shirt) with his grandchildren by Lisa Gebbia