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Labor leaders urge Cook County to adopt resolution honoring Kent Wong
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Don Velar, secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and Alex Han, executive director of In These Times, urged the Cook County Board of Commissioners to back a resolution honoring Kent Wong for his decades of labor organizing and work to build multiracial labor coalitions.
Don Velar, secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Federation of Labor, and Alex Han, executive director of In These Times, urged the Cook County Board of Commissioners to back a forthcoming resolution honoring Kent Wong, a longtime labor organizer and former director of the UCLA Labor Center.
"He was a civil rights activist, a labor leader, and the founder of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance," Don Velar said during public testimony, urging the board to adopt the resolution and…
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