The Lady Is a Leader
AFL-CIO Names Jeter Year’s
‘Outstanding Trade Unionist’
The Metropolitan Washington Council AFL-CIO presented Jackie Jeter, president of ATU Local 689, the JC Turner Award for Outstanding Trade Unionist of the Year at its annual dinner at Washington, DC’s Omni Shoreham Hotel on Saturday, March 12. Now in her second term as president, she led the local through a run of challenges, including the 2009 fatal Red Line metro crash, which killed nine and injured at least 75 more. In accepting the prestigious honor, Jeter acknowledged the hard work and dedication of her local, which represents the nearly 11,000 current and former transit worker members who keep this nation’s second busiest system moving. For more on the labor evening, see http://www.dclabor.org/ht/display/ArticleDetails/i/91060.
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