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Honoring the Career of Herman Wooden.
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WHEREAS, The Council of the City of Philadelphia is pleased and proud to honor Mr. Herman Wooden on the occasion of his retirement from the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and for thirty-five years of civic and community service to the City of Philadelphia; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Wooden, a native Philadelphian began his long career in the United Food and Commercial Union when, as a liquor store clerk in 1966, he became involved in the early struggles to win bargaining rights for public employees. He was instrumental in organizing the Wine and Spirit Shoppes in 1970 and achieving the first contract in 1971; and
WHEREAS, Since 1966, he has progressed through the ranks from Shop Steward to Business Representative to Local 1776 Secretary-Treasurer, lobbying successfully to save the jobs of the liquor store clerks. Mr. Wooden now serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of UFCW Local 1776, and assists the President in overseeing all the operations of the Local Union; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Wooden serves as a delegate for the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Vice President of the UFCW's Minority Coalition, a past member of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, Vice President of the Pennsylvania AFL/CIO, Vice President and Chairman of the Trustees of the Philadelphia AFL/CIO, member of the Public Employees Committee of state and local AFL/CIO; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Wooden's expertise in worker benefits lead to his position as a Trustee on the UFCW Local 1776 and Participating Employers Health and Welfare Fund and membership in the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans; and
WHEREAS, In addition to his many union responsibilities, Mr. Wooden was elected as a delegate to each of the Democratic National Conventions since 1992. He has worked in the campaigns of such successful elected officials as former Congressmen William Gray, Tom Foglietta, and Robert Borski, the late Congressman Lucien Blackwell the ...
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