Labor On The Move: Teresa Ball Retires From Working America

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

“After more than 13 years of service, Teresa Ball is retiring!” reports the AFL-CIO. A longtime activist for working men and women, Ball (right, with AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka) has served as the Assistant Director of the AFL-CIO’s community affiliate Working America since July 2004 and is set to retire at the end of May. “I have been truly blessed to be able to do this work with the smartest, hardest-working, dedicated people in the country,” says Ball. “I thank you all for your support and friendship throughout the years.” Ball began her career with the AFL-CIO in November 1997, when she was named state field director in Kansas, and was later appointed director of field operations for the AFL-CIO organizing department prior to taking her position with Working America. “Teresa has received numerous awards for outstanding service to the labor movement,” says the AFL-CIO. “In 1992, she was named Labor Woman of the Year by the West Virginia Governor’s Women’s Commission. In 1997, she received the West Virginia American Civil Liberties Union’s Roger Baldwin Founders’ Award for Civil Liberties for her commitment to improving the working conditions of women and men in the health care industry as well as patient care and living conditions for nursing home residents.” Ball is the proud mother of four children, has three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Click here for an invitation to join Working America and the AFL-CIO “as we celebrate and wish her well.”
– photo by Kathy Smith, AFL-CIO