2009 Award: Joe Hansen
2009 Award: Joe Hansen, UFCW
10th Annual Farmworker Justice Award
Wednesday, May 6th 2009
Honoring
Joseph T. Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
And presenting the Special Irma Flores Gonzales Award to
The Rosenberg Foundation and Senior Program Officer Ellen Widess
Also
A Tribute Honoring the Legacy of the late Shelley Davis
1201 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, District of Columbia
Click on any thumbnail image below to see a slideshow of photos from the event.
Farmworker Justice helps farmworkers develop effective agendas and speak with an effective voice in Congress, administrative agencies, the courts and the media. Today, we are poised to seize new opportunities and create new realities for farmworkers.
We ask people like you to support our work through tax-deductible donations because the people we serve do not earn enough to pay for our services. An excellent way to support our work is to become a sponsor of our annual award reception.
On the evening of May 6, 2009, we presented the 10th Annual Farmworker Justice Award to Joseph T. Hansen, President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. We also awarded the Irma Flores Gonzales Award, for helping Farmworker Justice build its capacity to advance the cause of farmworkers, to Ellen Widess (pictured left) and the Rosenberg Foundation. Finally, we paid tribute to our former Deputy Director Shelley Davis, an extraordinary advocate for farmworkers.
Previous recipients of our annual award are Linda Chavez-Thompson, Rep. Howard Berman, María Echaveste, Dolores Huerta, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Rep. George Miller, Arturo Rodriguez, Baldemar Velasquez, and Raul Yzaguirre. The Irma Flores Gonzales Award has been presented only once before, to Charles Kamasaki and Cecilia Muñoz.
Sponsors of the 2009 Award
Advocates' Circle
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
Benefactor
The California Endowment
Laborers' International Union of North America
Service Employees International Union
Patron
Bernstein & Lipsett, P.C.
National Council of La Raza
Friend
Southern Poverty Law Center
Joan S. and James B. Leonard
Robin Talbert and Bruce Goldstein
Kathy Krieger
Change to Win
James & Hoffman
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Sponsors
UMOS
Mehri & Skalet, PLLC
Jack Gallon, Esq.
Antoinette Maestas
Cynthia Currin
Rural Housing, Inc.
American Rights at Work
JBL International, Inc
Beyond Pesticides
Rep. Howard Berman
Supporters
Deborah E. Berkowitz
East Coast Migrant Head Start Project
Taryn Higashi
Ann Malester
National Employment Law Project
Lewis Papenfuse
Herman Schwartz
Mickey Ibarra & Associates, Inc.
James Klimaski
Joan Dallacqua and Mike Hancock
Nan Aron
