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By Our Hands: “We Had to Let Them Go”
… I came here in February, 2009, and there was one person who was vocal against us. I’m not going to name names, but they were loud. … The speaker is Julio Perez, director of the Orange County Labor Federation. He’s talking about the effort by former director Tefere Gebre to change labor’s status quo. Gebre has since gone on to win office as Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO. But this was … national office of the Executive Vice President. All of a sudden, they’re like, ‘I guess the CLC is doing something really right!’ Today, programs from the Orange County Federation of Labor are being run statewide across California, and as a …