Annual Awards Banquet

Arnold M. Dubin shared his passion for social justice with everyone he encountered. As a leader of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and as a leader of the Southeastern Massachusetts community he loved, he was an inspiration to union members and the labor movement as a whole. The Dubin MemorialAward bears witness to his spirited leadership, as it honors each year’s recipient.

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Thanks to all of our supporters for another great awards banquet this year.  We are grateful to the nearly 300 attendees and the 24 donors who bought ads to support us.  Also, thanks also to the 15 organizations and small businesses who contributed to our raffles.  Congratulations to our Mass AFL-CIO president, Steve Tolman, who made the winning bid on the custom, union made (by UNITE members) suit from Joseph Abboud. 

Recipients of the Arnold M. Dubin Memorial Award

Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts

Leo J. Purcell, President, Massachusetts Bldg Trades Council, AFL-CIO

Gerry Studds, US Congressman, Tenth District

Nicholas Roussos, Manager, So New England District Council, ILGWU

Diana Nunes, New England Regional Joint Board, ACTWU

Donald Walker, President, Southeastern Mass University

Dr. Everett Radovsky, ILGWU Union Health Center

Dr. Anna Radovsky, ILGWU Union Health Center

George Ripley, Comm. Of Labor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Arthur R. Osborn, President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO Robert J. Haynes, Secretary Treasurer, Mass AFL-CIO

John Kerry, United States Senator

Edward M. Kennedy, United States Senator

James S. Braude, Director, Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts

Barney Frank, Congressional Representative

Teresa Heinz, Chairperson, Heinz Family Philanthropies

Joseph Faherty, President, Mass AFL-CIO

The Founders of the UMass Dartmouth Labor Education Center

James P. McGovern, Congressman

William Delahunt, Congressman

Kathleen Casavant, Secretary-Treasurer, Mass AFL-CIO

Joan Menard, State Senator Mark Montigny, State Senator

Marc Pacheco, State Senator

Ed Clark, Executive vp, UNITE

Stephen F. Lynch, Congressman

John J. Sweeney, Pres. AFL-CIO

Mayor Edward M. Lambert, Jr., Fall River

Therese Murray, Pres. Mass. State Senate

Scott W Lang, Mayor of New Bedford

Martha Coakley, Atty. General of Mass.

Tim Murray, Lt. Governor of Mass.

Sandy Felder, Field Div. Director, Strategic Campaigns Dept., AFL-CIO

Arnold M. Dubin Memorial Award

Lawrence Hanley, President, Amalgamated Transit Union Senator Elizabeth Warren

Patrick J. O'Neill, Ex VP and Director of Organizing, UFCW

Recipients of Harry Dunham Memorial Award

Tina Ponte, Local 899, United Auto Workers Dora Bastarache, Local 361, ILGWU

Edward DeMoura, Local 284, United Electrical Workers

Rod Poineau, Local 277, United Electrical Workers

Roger LaVoie, Local 899, United Auto Workers

Frank Costa, Local 876, Laborers Union

Ida Cabral, Local 178, ILGWU

Len Rose, President, UAW Local 899 Pam Crowell, Taunton Educators Association

Ida Crowninshield, AFSCME

Evelyn Moniz, Local 178, ILGWU

Julie Ouellette, Local 767, Hospital Workers, SEIIJ

Bert Barao, Local 177, ACTWU

Margaret Lynch, Mary DeCruz, Alvira Araujo, IBT Labor 59

Lee Medeiros, Maria Perreira, Charlotte Sousa, UNITE

Dottie Griffin, Local 767, SEIU

Mary Mahoney, OPEIU Local 6

UE Local 284, JC Rhodes, UNITE Cliftex Strike Committee

UNITE Ideal Bias Committee Members

Wilfred Desnoyer, Local 168, UWA

Doug Simmons, Local 791, UFCW

Steve Seymour, Barnstable Municipal Employee Assoc.

Robert P. Edwards, Local 791, UFCW

Wilma Erchull, UFCW, Local 791

Kathy Medeiros, UFCW Local 328

Darlene Pimental, Local 178, UNITE

Fernando Garcia, UE Local 223

Kathy Manson, Pres., Plymouth-Bristol Central Labor Council

Gary Pires, Pres., Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1037

Recipients of the Richard M. Fontera Award

Joseph A. Bronstad, President, Local 1895, AFT, AFL-CIO, SMU Fac Fed

James Toatley and Linda Whyte Toatley

Daniel Georgianna, Professor of Economics

Ralph Fasanella, Artist

The SMU Labor Studies Committee

Philip T. Silvia, Jr., Professor of History, Bridgewater State College

UMOJA

Clyde Barrow, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, UMD Injured Workers United, Inc.

Tony Amaral, President; Kathy Furtado, VP, Sandra Leary, Treasurer, Marlene Souza, Director

Glenda Goldberg, BMC Durfee High School, Spinner Publications Martha Leader and Tom Juravich, Labor Singers

Martha Leader, Labor Singer

Tom Juravich, Labor Singer, Assoc Professor UMass Amherst Spinner Publications, Inc.

Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, Russ Davis, Director, Heather Gonzalez, Org.

Injured Workers United

Mass Jobs with Justice

Women's Institute for Leadership Development

Dr. James Griffith

Coalition for Social Justice Harneen Chernow

Dan Devenny

Carly Simon

Third Eye Unlimited

New Bedford CEDC

Jerry Fishbein, Local 2020, SEIU

Suzanne Bump, Sec. of Labor and Workforce Development

Dave Wallace, Director, Mass Division of Apprentice Training

George Noel, Director, Mass. Dept. of Labor

Jim Snow, Reg. Dir., AFL-CIO Field Dept., Northeast Region

State Reps: David Sullivan, Cleon H. Turner & Marty Walsh

Tess Ewing, Labor Educator and Activist

Diana Bell & Connie Razza, Community Labor United

Natalicia Tracy, Ex Director, Brazilian Immigrant Center, Inc.

The Dora Bastarache On the Line Award

UNITE Local 178 Negotiating Committee at Aberdeen

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 59 Strike Comm. UPS

United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 791 Strike Comm. Shaw's

Francoeur Family, Dartmouth, UPS Strike Site Supporters

Maria Chesky, SEW Local 767

Eleonara Vieira, SEIIJ Local 509

Organizing Committee Crawford House, Fall River, Local 1199 New England Health

Care Employees Union, SEIU Evelyn Moniz, Local 178, UNITE

Calvin Klein, UNITE

Communications Workers of America, Local 1051

United Steelworkers of America, Local 1357

New Bedford DSS Workers SEIU Local 509, community and labor activists who responded to the injustices of the ICE Bianco Raid

Aida Melo, 1199 SEW, UHWE

Chris Bianchi, Edwin Rivera & Eileen Chumack Centro Comunitario de Trabejadores, Inc.

George Ripley Ill Memorial Award

Patrick Lee, VP, Trinity Financial

Atty. Scott Lang, Former Mayor of New Bedford

Jon Mitchell, Office of the Mayor of New Bedford

Matthew Morrissey, Past Ex. Dir, New Bedford Economic Dev. Council

Richard Sullivan, Jr., Sec, Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs

Bill White, Senior Dir of Offshore Wind, Mass Clean Energy Center

Jocelyn B. Jones, Mass. Asst. Attorney General