Boland Honored by Peggy Browning Fund

JOURNAL: ISSUE 2 - 2013

Since 1997, the Peggy Browning Fund, a Philadelphia-based non-profit group dedicated to educating and inspiring the law students to become advocates for workplace justice, has provided hundreds of summer fellowships at unions, worker centers, government agencies, and labor law firms for exemplary second-year law students. 

On June 24th at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Fund presented the Peggy Browning Award to BAC President James Boland in recognition of his activism in the areas of social and economic justice. The Fund and Award are named in memory of the late Peggy Browning, a brilliant labor attorney and member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 1994 to 1997, whose passion for mentoring law students and young lawyers interested in labor law careers was the catalyst for the Fund's establishment. Also honoured was AFL-CIO attorney Nancy Schiffer, who was nominated by the President on July 16th to the National Labor Relations Board and confirmed by the Senate on July 30th. 

BAC members joined a crowd of several hundred at the AFL-CIO on June 24th for the presentation of the Peggy Browning Fund's Washington, D.C. award to BAC President James Boland. Front row from left, Local 13 NV President Carlos Aquin, BAC Executive Vice President Gerard Scarano, Secretary-Treasurer Henry Kramer and President James Boland, and Local 1 NY President Jeremiah Sullivan. Second row from left, Local 7 NY/NJ Field Representative Frank Williams, NJ ADC Director Richard Tolson, BAC Organizer Francis Jacobberger, Local 1 PA/DE President Dennis Pagliotti, Local 5 NY Vice Chair Peter Clifford,  OH-KY ADC Director Ken Kudela, Local 1 NY Secretary-Treasurer Jack Argila, Local 5 NY President Mike Clifford, and BAC Director of Collective Bargaining Services Mike Di Virgilio and Director of Organizing Steve Nelms.