Honoring Our Heroes

On Saturday, September 25, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, and in partnership with Labor Community Services hosted the First Annual Dolores Huerta Spirit Awards. For safety precautions, we opted to host this event online so that we can provide a safe environment to all participants to celebrate our distinguished Labor Icons Dolores Huerta and the late Mike Garcia.

The online event included red carpet photo opportunities for participants, along with the opportunity to interact with other attendees through the use of our virtual chat rooms. During the program, distinguished guests speakers, as US Senator Alex Padilla, State Senator Maria Elena Durazo and LA City Council President Nury Martinez spoke about the LCS’ work in the community on behalf of working families.

In addition, our night’s awardees - Michael Flood, President and CEO of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, and Jim Mangia, President and CEO of St. John’s Well Child and Family Center - spoke about their respective organizations’ commitments to helping families. Their partnerships with LCS made our work in the community possible for that we are eternally grateful to them and their dedicated staff.

Lastly, we were honored to have SEIU-USWW President David Huerta speak on behalf of our brother, Mike Garcia and Dolores Huerta herself speak to the power of standing up for what you believe in and fighting for those whose voices are being unheard.