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Public Employee Press
North Shore Dems honor
Roberts
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Honoree
Lillian Roberts, 3rd from left, with DC37 and local leaders, City Council’s
Michael McMahon (far right) and North Shore Democratic Club President Louis Liedy
(left) and Asst. Sec. Rajiv Gowda, 2nd from left.
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DC 37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts was
honored May 17 by the North Shore Democratic Club. She received the club’s
Bob Parker Labor Leadership Award at the group’s annual dinner.
In
its commemorative journal, the club cited Roberts’s “long proud history
as a unionist” and Essence magazine’s description of her as “probably
the most powerful Black person in American labor.”
The journal listed
as key steps in that proud history her early organizing in Chicago, her leadership
of DC 37’s drive to organize thousands of city hospital workers, her vital
role in establishing DC 37’s array of benefits — including the largest
union-based adult education program in the United States — and her service
as the state Commissioner of Labor.
More recently, said the journal, she
issued her famous White Papers on how the city could save money by replacing overpriced
consultants with city employees, and she founded the union’s bustling Municipal
Employees Housing Program.
Rajiv Gowda of Local 375 was a chairperson of
the Annual Dinner Committee of the club, which is celebrating its 46th year of
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