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| Bill Camp, Executive Secretary of the Sacramento Central Labor Council celebrating Labor and exhorting the crowd to continue the task of assessing the politicians who make the decisions in this world and making them accountable to working people. Passing the "Budget Accountability Act" in March of 2004 was mentioned as one of Labor's next big goals. |
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| If you couldn't quite see the speaker on stage, you could see them on the big screens on both sides of the stage. |
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| President of the California Labor Federation AFL-CIO Tom Rankin after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. He has "written and negotiated collective bargaining laws, worked for the restoration of CAL/OSHA, bargained for complex revisions of worker's comp laws, and led efforts to increase the minimum wage, unemployment benefits, and state disability benefits." The California Labor Federation says "2,000,000 workers thank you for all you do for the people of this state and country!" |
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| Local 1877 President Mike Garcia accepting the award for Excellence in Organizing. Local 1877 made history this summer when they marched through the streets of downtown Sacramento, staging sit-ins and closing off streets in their successful effort to win a Union contract with healthcare for dependents. The janitors gained wide support from state and local politicians who abandoned their office buildings in support of 1877's strike. Members of many Unions participated in the daily marches through the streets. |
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William Meehan,former Executive Secretary, SCLLC and Business Manager,Sacramento-Sierra BTC, accepting the "Union Ambassador" award. After many accomplishments as a member of the building trades (such as constructing the baseball stadium and SCC and building safe houses for WEAVE), Bill reorganized the Building Trades Council and was a major player in NCCT (Northern California Construction and Training), a non-profit pre-apprentice training program he founded in 1991 to give disadvantaged persons a chance to become apprentices in the building trades. The Union Ambassador award is designed to honor a person who "has demonstrated the ability to look beyond jurisdictional boundaries and fight for the interests and concerns of all working families, regardless of trade, craft, gender, race or ethnicity." Sounds like they gave the award to the right person! |