January 28, 2009

The Peggy Browning Fund will honor Chris Shelton, Vice President of CWA District One, and Gwynne Wilcox, Esq. of Levy Ratner, P.C., at the Yale Club, New York City. Watch this space for details.

March 19, 2009

The Peggy Browning Fund will honor Anna Burger, Chair of Change to Win, at Penns Landing Caterers in Philadelphia, PA. Watch this space for details.



  • The Peggy Browning Fund honored Washington DC attorney George R. Murphy, Esq. of Davis, Cowell & Bowe in June 2008.

  • The Peggy Browning Fund honored Patrick W. Flynn, Recording Secretary of Teamsters Joint Council 25 and Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 710, and Charles Orlove, Esq., of the union-side law firm Jacobs, Burns, Orlove, Stanton & Hernandez on November 15, 2007 in Chicago.

  • Mary K. O'Melveny General Counsel to the Communications Workers of America, was honored on June 21st, 2007 in Washington, DC. Read Mary O'Melveny's uplifting speech.

  • John J. Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO, was honored at our 10th Anniversary Celebration on March 22, 2007 in Philadelphia. Read John Sweeney's inspiring acceptance speech.

  • The Peggy Browning Fund honored Terence M. O'Sullivan, General President of the Laborers' International Union of North America, and Tom M. Kennedy, partner at Kennedy, Jennik and Murray, P.C. on January 25, 2007 in New York.

  • George Cohen, partner at Bredhoff & Kaiser, was our honoree at a reception held at the AFL-CIO on June 8, 2006 in Washington, DC.

  • Ted Kirsch, President of the American Federation of Teachers Pennsylvania, was on honored on March 9, 2006 in Philadelphia.

  • The Peggy Browning Fund honored Judith Vladeck, a former partner at Vladeck, Waldman, Elias and Engelhard, P.C. on January 26, 2006 in New York. Read the honoree's recollections of Peggy Browning. Read the remarks of Allison Beck, General Counsel for the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers.

  • Thomas Balanoff,, President of SEIU's Illinois Council, and Gilbert A. Cornfield, a partner at Cornfield & Feldman, were honored for their work on behalf of working people on November 9, 2005 in Chicago.

  • The Peggy Browning Fund honored Laurence J. Cohen, senior partner of Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Yellig, on May 31, 2005 in Washington, DC.

  • James A. Williams, General President of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, was our honoree on March 5, 2005 in Philadelphia.

  • The Peggy Browning Fund honored Randi Weingarten, President of the United Federation of Teachers, and Eugene G. Eisner of Eisner & Associates on January 26, 2005 in New York. Take a look at a Slide Show of the event!

  • Wendell W. Young, III, President of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1776 was honored at the Sixth Annual Dinner Dance in Philadelphia on March 6, 2004.

  • The Peggy Browning Fund honored Marvin Miller, the founding Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) on January 28, 2004 in New York.
    Read some of the speeches from the evening:
    Marvin Miller, Founding Executive Director of the MLBPA
    Jim Bouton, Author & Former Major League Pitcher
    Don Fehr, Executive Director Major League Baseball Players Association
    Joe Torre, New York Yankees Coach

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