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York Adams CENTRAL Labor Council
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Linda Sanders Wins Labor Partnership Award
At the 89th Annual Meeting of the United Way of York County on June 21, Linda Sanders received the Labor Partnership Award. Linda Sanders has been a union leader and community activist volunteer with the AFL-CIO Community Services program for more than 20 years. She began her union affiliation with the International Ladies Garment Workers [ILGWU} back in 1979 and was employed by Donegal Industries until being appointed a union representative in 1999. She continues to serve in this leadership position today as a professional staff member of the Workers United Pennsylvania Joint Board. In this capacity, she represents 1500 union members throughout the region striving to maintain a positive labor-management collective bargaining relationship.
Linda has been an active Union Community Activist Network [UCAN] volunteer since 1988 and has served as chair of the York-Adams Central Labor Council’s Community Services Committee for over ten years. She also attends the variety of our year-round UCAN community services activities and chairs the Graduate UCAN Alumni Association. Under her committee leadership, the Labor –United Way of York County partnership continues to flourish through several highly visible projects that comprise the Labor Participation workplan. Examples include the United Way’s Drop-in Center for the Unemployed and the York County Youth Yellow Pages..
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Labor Leaders celebrate Linda Sander’s award. Left to right: Skip Wills, Nancy Stough-Miller, Dick Boyd, Rona Eliot, Rayda Rivera, Joyce Vandersloot, Linda, Sandy Sanders, Steve Shelby |
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