Pinder Outstanding Trade Unionist

Monday, March 19, 2007

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

 

Gene Pinder, Business Manager of the Baltimore-Washington Laborers’ District Council, heads up this Saturday’s honorees at the 30th annual Evening With Labor as the J.C. Turner Award for Outstanding Trades Unionist of the Year. Tickets are still available for the celebration of local labor (see On The Line). Pinder has made sure his local was a very active participant in Labor 2006 activities -- two of his local union activists are winning COPE awards this year – and he has been an active labor representative on the Stadium Project Labor Agreement Task Force, working with the contractor, city and other unions to ensure DC resident apprenticeship hiring. He supervises the Laborers’ locals response to mobilization requests for other area unions through Street Heat and he has actively supported the activities of the Community Services Agency. Other award winners Saturday include COPE awardees Jim Lowery (Elevator Constructors Local 10, Eric Starin (Office and Professional Employees Local 2), Gerald Warrick (Laborers’ Local 657), Jack Taylor (Plumbers Local 5), Anthony Frederick (Laborers Local 657) and Gloria Bryant (Service Employees Local 722. Photo by Chris Garlock

 

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