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UDW Executive Director Doug Moore (right) receives the North Valley Labor Federation award for outstanding political organizing from federation President Adam Loveall (left) and Vice President Tom Aja.
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UDW has earned recognition for our political organizing efforts in California’s Central Valley. At its anniversary dinner last month in Stockton, the North Valley Labor Federation (NVLF) presented UDW with the federation’s first-ever award for outstanding political organizing in 2010.
According to NVLF Executive Director Marcie Bayne, not only did UDW play a key role in the election victories of worker-friendly candidates in the valley, we also made it possible for the federation to put additional resources into important statewide campaigns for candidates like Attorney General Kamala Harris.
In accepting the award, UDW Executive Director Doug Moore explained what the recently announced results of the 2010 Census mean:
“They mean that there will be a significant change in California’s politics. “They mean that the balance of power is shifting away from Los Angeles, San Francisco and the coast and toward the Inland Empire and Central Valley. And they mean that we will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bring an end to the kind of anti-worker policies and politics that have burdened us for so long here in the heart of our great state.”
Moore also reminded the audience that April marked the first anniversary of labor’s historic March for California’s Future.
“It took 48 days for us to march from Bakersfield to Sacramento to show the world that the California dream can be restored,” he said. “As we marched, hundreds and hundreds of our brothers and sisters in the labor movement and their families and friends came out to support us all along the route. That confirmed something I already believed– that it is a MYTH that working men and women have no power in this Valley.
“We have the power. All we need to do is organize, organize, organize,” Moore said.
