Dunton & Newman Win U.N. Awards

Bruce Dunton and Elaine Newman - two Washington area labor activists - were among over a dozen winners of human rights awards at the recent United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UCA-NCA) Human Rights Luncheon. Newman and Dunton received the awards "for their remarkable work in the field of human rights." Dunton, secretary of the National Capital Area Union Retirees Club, wears many hats in a wide range of worker rights, human welfare, human rights, and health care issues. He is president of the Maryland-DC Alliance for Retired Americans, secretary of United Seniors of Maryland, member of the Maryland Commission on the Aging, and consultant to UNITE-HERE Mid-Atlantic Seniors. Newman is vice president of the National Capital Area Union Retirees Club and its delegate to the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO, promoting worker rights and health care. She is a member of the national executive committee of Americans for Democratic Action and a long-time human rights activist on many fronts. At the Women's National Democratic Club she heads a program on national issues and legislation. With the National Commission on Pay Equity she works on equal pay for women as well as other pay equity issues.