Thank you for joining us for an Evening With Labor 2024
Dear friends and allies,
Thank you to everyone who joined us for Evening with Labor 2024! This year's event was a fantastic celebration, and we were overjoyed to have so many partners from across the labor movement join us.
Thank you in particular to the 2024 Dinner and Awards Committee members: Greg Bowen (ATU Local 689), Chuck Clay (IASTE Local 22), Kayla Mock (UFCW 400), Gina Walton (AFGE 1975), Dena Briscoe (APWU 140), Debra Williams (AFSCME Local 1200), T. Smalls (Plumbers Local 5), and Lolita Martin, Jo Combs, Tonya Love, and Donita Jackson (Metropolitan Washington Council staff).
Evening with Labor is about gathering together as a united labor movement in the DC region, and we look forward to being together again in April 2025 — back in Washington DC!
Sincerely,
Samuel A. Epps IV
President, Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO
Herbert Harris
45th Annual Evening with Labor Dinner Committee Chair and
State Representative for the District of Columbia, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, IBT
See photos from 2024 Evening With Labor.
View the event program.
Every year at Evening with Labor Awards we honor outstanding leaders in the DC region's labor movement who have gone above and beyond to support our union movement and union members. Nominations for this year's awards were open from January until early March, and all of the nominations submitted this year reflect a leader-full movement that is powerful, connected, and growing.
Evening with Labor 2024 recognized the following honorees:
The Thomas Bradley Community Service Award: Chris Biondi, Training Director, Plumbers & Gasfitters Local 5
Organizing Award: DC Nurses Association
Golden Picket Award: Washington-Baltimore News Guild
Outstanding Citizen and Outstanding Ally Award: Déjah Désirée Williams, MPP
Joslyn N. Williams Vanguard Award: Dena Briscoe, APWU Local 140
J.C. Turner Award for Outstanding Trade Unionist of the Year: Emiliana Sparaco, National Field Director, NPEU/IFPTE Local 70