Outstanding Citizen Terry Lynch

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

We neglected to include Wilhelmina J. Rolark Outstanding Citizen Award winner TERRY LYNCH in Monday’s list of 2006 award winners at this year’s Evening With Labor. In his work as the Executive Director of the Downtown Cluster of Congregations, a non-profit ecumenical association founded in 1972 for the purpose of cooperatively meeting pressing human service needs in DC, Lynch coordinates the service, justice, and political activities of more than 35 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish congregations. He has been the Chairman of the DC Workers’ Rights Board since it was formed in August 2001, leading efforts by community and religious leaders to support worker struggles. As noted in this year’s Evening with Labor program book, “From winning emergency assistance funds for workers laid off after 9/11, to investigating allegations of union-busting, to challenging the city to better oversee treatment of contracted workers, to playing a key role in countless contract negotiations, Terry Lynch has answered every call he has received from working people in DC.”