Labor laurels - The Sierra Club Bulletin: news for members

Sierra, Sept-Oct, 2002

Eleanor Roosevelt won one in 1956. Jesse Jackson took the honors in 1999. And this May, Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope became the latest recipient of the Officers' Award given by the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Pope was lauded for partnering with the AFL-CIO to safeguard worker rights and environmental protection in international trade agreements, marching with union leaders at the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, and serving on the National Strawberry Workers Commission for Workers' Rights.

Named for labor leader Hillman, the foundation has been giving awards since 1950 to "journalists, writers, and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good."

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