NOMINATE SOMEONE FOR THE 2010 Awards 2010 Nominations
We are welcoming nominations for the 2010 Gushing-Gavin Awards. The Selection Committee needs more than just names and titles. Nominations should be accompanied by as much detail as possible about the candidate's career.
FOUR awards are presented each year to actively functioning representatives
1. Union official - either elected or appointed
2. Management representative - either public or private sector
3. Rev Ed Boyle, SJ -Auxiliary- embraces such groups as arbitrators, academics, public_agency_personnel_and support professionals
4. Labor-management counsel Attorneys in private practice serving as counsel for mgt or labor. This year's award is for a UNION attorney
Nominees must work within the general area of the Archdiocese of Boston - that means roughly, Eastern Massachusetts. Nominations are open to people of all faiths.
Submitted by (optional) _______________________________ Title _____________.
SEND TO: Selection Committee, CGA, 85 Commercial St., Weymouth, MA 02188
Or laborguild@aol.com by September 21CUSHING GAVIN AWARDS FRIDAY, December 3
2009
THE CUSHING-GAVIN RECIPIENTS
LABOR MARTIN CALLAGHAN
Boston Newspaper Printing Pressman’s Union Local 3 affiliated with the Graphic Communications of the Teamsters, thirteen-years as President and Business-Agent
Trustee ,Taft- Hartley Health and Welfare Local Funds & Mechanical Union Savings Trust
Harvard Trade Union Program Graduate 1988
The CGA 2009 Labor Award goes to a tireless and trusted, silent and successful leader in diverse union and community causes. More public has been his thirteen year service to the Teamsters Graphic Communications Conference, especially significant in this year’s Globe negotiations. Almost six-hundred working families in newspaper commercial and specialty printing throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire have never tired of our awardee’s devotion and diplomacy for more than thirteen years. Prior to his more prestigious election in 1996 as President and Business Manager, he was entrusted with the office of Vice President and Chair of the Board of Trustees, initiating more than twenty-five years of service. Word got around and he soon became a member of the International Union’s Board of Elections and Trial Board. Additionally, he is the Vice President of the North American Conference of Newspaper Unions and Massachusetts Vice President of the Graphic Communications Council’s Eastern Conference. Never tired of learning he serves as Secretary of the Harvard Trade Union Program Alumni Association. Closer to home he has served on his Parish’s Finance, Stewardship and Administrative Services Committees. His dedication to the Labor Guild is almost legendary - Executive Board Member since 1988, Guild Vice-President, Treasurer and President. Less well known is the almost endless work he does teaching at the Guild’s School of Industrial Relations and serving for years as the tickets and sales chair for the Annual Cushing-Gavin Award Dinner. Most precious, of course, in his life is the love and devotion of his wife Maureen and his three daughters and son ages fourteen to twenty-one.
Thus the Labor Guild is pleased to present this 2009 Cushing-Gavin Labor Award to such a very dedicated,creative and competent labor leader, MARTIN CALLAGHAN
MANAGEMENT WILLIAM DOWD
Senior Vice-President of Human Resources, National Grid
Fr. Charles B. Quirk O.P. award from the Providence College’s Institute of Industrial Relations
Brookline and Sharon Personnel Director
Master’s in Public Administration, with honors, Suffolk University
Bridgewater State College
The C.G.A. Management Award goes to a strong but silent, honored but humble corporate leader. He was hailed by his mentors in Brookline and Sharon as very mature and articulate for his young age. Indeed, his personal relations with company employees was a very important asset to employers. The accomplishment was most significant in his managing and directing the strategic relationship with six national labor unions representing over 12,000 employees in twenty-eight separate local unions across New England and New York. Such a task necessitated continued and constructive relationships with union presidents and business agents. Periodically, he has had to serve as his company’s chief labor negotiator, building on working closely with senior management as they prioritized collective bargaining strategy and objectives. Collaterally, his task was to serve 6,000 non-union employees in New York and New England. Serving for 25 years in the world’s fifth largest energy delivery company, transmitting electricity and distributing gas to customers in the U.S. and Great Britain, he has been primarily concerned with eighteen thousand U.S. employees in the third largest U.S. electric and utility company, serving nearly nine million electricity and gas customers. Yet, he still chuckles over his contract negotiations when his Brookline boss was out of town or when his first child was born. Free time has found him serving on his parish council in Holliston. Precious, but all too scarce, time is treasured with his wife Kelli of twenty-three years and their blessed four children. They characterize our awardee as a great storyteller with a sparkling sense of humor, eminently fair and the eternal voice of reason. Past-times include tinkering in the shop and with cars, but treasuring the first-run 1984 & a half Mustang for summertime use only.
Thus, the Labor Guild is delighted to present this 2009 Cushing-Gavin Management Award to a devoted spouse and parent, community servant and tireless Human Resource Director in a utility giant., WILLAIM DOWD.
BOYLE AWARD SUZANNE BUMP
Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development Representative from Braintree, 1985-1993
Chair of the Joint Committee & Labor
Named “Women of Justice” in 2009 by the Women Bar Association and Mass. Association of Women Lawyers
Graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University Law School
The 2009 CGA Boyle Award goes to a woman lawyer, legislator and executive whose life and career has been characterized by understanding, compassion, and dedication about the plight and near despair of “ the little gal” and “ the little guy”. She has been concerned about the need for structural change in the polity and economy. Recall her re-organizing the State public sector labor relations, depoliticizing and professionalizing management and establishing oversight panels. Remember her influence on the Governor’s executive order on the Joint Enforcement Task Force on the Underground Economy and Employee Misclassification, establishing a new standard for multi-agency cooperation in targeting businesses neglecting wage, tax, and insurance requirements. Be it “Helmets to Hardhats” or other fine union apprentice programs, our awardee has made effective administration of the Divisions of Apprentice Training and Occupational Safety.
She initiated efforts to identify the workforce needs of business, to close the nagging skills gap and focused on system performance in linkages between workforce development and community colleges. Treasuring education and workers is even more emphasized in these days of economic recession. She increased and intensified personal access and services as demands for unemployment benefits, job training vouchers, rapid response services and assistance at State career centers expanded. She leveraged federal and state resources this year to provide more than eleven thousand at-risk youth with summer jobs. We learn that she is more a humane person than a distant bureaucrat. Indeed, she organized the first “sleep over” in the State House and continued with assistance to the St. Francis Day Care Shelter for the Homeless, as well as the Edwina Martin Half-Way House in Brockton for recovering drug addicts.
Thus, the Boston Labor Guild is overjoyed in being able to extol this “valiant woman” so aptly clarioned by sacred writers, but quite willing to accept the understanding of modern woman, whom the Lord would praise for hearing and practicing the Word of God, SUZANNE M BUMP with this 2009 Boyle award.
ATTORNEY JAMES GRASSO
O’Reilly, Grosso & Gross,
Partner, 1986-2009
Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts Inc. 1977-1986
General Counsel’s Office, Massachusetts, Department of Labor & Industries 1973-1975
Syracuse University 1972
The 2009 CGA Management Attorney Award goes to a highly educated and experienced lawyer, serving well corporate, government and union interests in extending and enhancing healthy and productive labor-management relations. Benefitting from his knowledge, integrity and skill are the Carpenters Combined Benefit Funds of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Laborers-Health and Welfare Fund, the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local Union 51 Pension and Annuity Funds, and Labors Joint Labor-Management Unified Trust. Starting as a student of Regional NLRB Director, Bob Fuchs, our awardee was soon introduced to public construction and prevailing wage, while interning in the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industry. By 1980 he was Executive Director of the Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts, developing strong relationships with building trades representatives, in addition to many of the best labor lawyers in Boston, enabling him to develop strong and trusting relationships with attorneys, on both sides of the bargaining table for almost thirty years. A long time member of the Massachusetts and American Bar Association, he served on the latter’s Public Contracts Committee and the Labor Law Committee. As a practitioner before the Massachusetts, the First Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, he has brought great prestige to the Boston Archdiocesan Labor Guild. Indeed, union leaders have hailed him as understanding the construction industry “as well as anyone on the management side and as a strong supporter of good union labor-management relations.” Other contractors looking for legal advice are told “if they want an advocate that already knows all the issues and can solve problems, he’s the guy”.
From 1987-1996, he was a member and Chair of the Town of Shrewsbury School Committee and from 1980 to 2003 Chair of the Town’s Long Range Planning Committee. He also served as the first Chair of Saint Anne’s Parish Council. Under his leadership, Bingo was phased out, putting the parish on solid financial grounds and facilitating the creation of a free Health Clinic staffed by volunteer doctors from UMASS Medical Center. Presently, he is Treasurer of the Barton Condominium Association in Delray Beach, Florida. Tonight his wife, for 37 years, Judy, his three children and one–month old granddaughter may rightly beam with pride, as the Labor Guild joyfully proclaims the 2009 Cushing-Gavin Award for their learned and loving spouse and father, JAMES F GROSSO
Thank -you for your continued support, which we appreciate so much.
Gary Sullivan Rev Patrick Sullivan, CSC Frederick Laskey
co-chair, Pres UWUA 369 Secretary co-chair, Exec, Dir MWRA
On November 6h, the Labor Guild held its 43rd annual Cushing-Gavin Awards Dinner. Once again, it recognized four outstanding professionals for the competence, vision and integrity they have brought to our complicated and sensitive labor relations work.
The Labor Guild is the Archdiocesan agency responsible for inspiring, and helping men and women to act with conscience, know-how, and courage in labor-management relations.
This Dinner represents the capstone of the year
We are gratified that through these past 43 years there has been such broad-based attendance arbitrators, academics,legal counsel, public agency staff, as well as management and union representatives.
Such a diverse audience builds a spirit of community, acknowledging that beneath the partisianperspectives of the various constituencies there is attention to the needs of the common good.
,Won’t you plan now to join us in 2010 for this once-a-year festive event?
@ The Sheraton Boston The Forty-second Annual Cushing-Gavin Awards was held on THURSDAY pm November 20.
email:laborguild@aol.com or call 781 340 7887 for info
*****2010 Cushing Gavin Awards Dinner*****
Know someone who exemplifies moral integrity and professional competance in one of the 4 award categories? Nominate them -- they can't be selected without someone nominatng them. email:laborguild@aol.com for a nomination sheet. Nominations are accepted through early October when the selection committee meets.
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ATTORNEY JAMES GRASSO
2009 Awardees & Co-chairs with Bishop John Dooher 
Selection committee at work:
@ The Sheraton Boston