8th Annual Awards Celebration
Ticket Price $50
Hors d’oervres and drinks will be served
Legislative Leadership Award:
Art Pulaski
Art Pulaski has led the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO as Executive Secretary-Treasurer since 1996, which represents 2.3 million workers of 1,200 manufacturing, service, construction and public sector unions. As leader of the Labor Federation, Pulaski led efforts to restore daily overtime pay, raise the minimum wage and pass the nation’s first Paid Family Leave law. In 2019, the Federation led the successful campaign to clarify California’s definition of “employee” forcing the end of employers using employee classification to exploit workers.
Legal Advocate Award:
Honorable George Acero
George Acero has served as a Judge in the Sacramento County Superior Court since 2021. Prior to his appointment, Acero managed his own firm since 2016 and represented employees in individual claims for wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, failure to accommodate disabilities and more. Acero took leadership in the Cruz Reynoso Bar Association and offered assistance to Spanish-speaking workers. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Worker Bravery Award:
Giselle Ann Revelo
Giselle Ann Revelo works as a care giver at a Sacramento area residential care facility. Because of their 24-hour operations and high-needs clientele, employers at residential care facilities often violate wage and hour laws to decrease operation costs. Revelo has stood up against wage theft against two prior employers, in both cases providing necessary information allowing for the assessment of back wages not only for herself, but for her former co-workers. In 2022, the Center for Workers’ Rights worked with the Labor Commissioner’s Bureau of Field Enforcement to issue a citation against her former employer for $1.3 million in back wages and penalties.
Sponsors
Champion
- Nathan Shaffer and Carmen Comsti
Leader
Beeson Tayer & Bodine
Sacramento Central Labor Council
SEIU Local 1000
- Terri Friedman and Mark Urban
Patron
- Altshuler Berzon LLP
- Feinberg, Jackson Worthman & Wasow LLP
- Gurdeep Dhaliwal and Tim Choi
- Kazan, McClaim Satterley & Greenwood
- Marcus, Regaldo, Marcus & Pulley, LLP
- NorCal Resist
- Olivier & Schreiber LLP
- SEIU Local 2015
- Shana Urban
- Teamsters Joint Council 7
- Webber Law Group
Advocate
- Aaron Read & Associates
- Brittany Berzin
- California Applicants’ Attorneys Association
- Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP
- Mora Employment Law
- Nichols Kaster LLP
- Paschal Roth Public Affairs
- Peter McEntee and Kim Meade
- Shimoda & Rodriguez Law, PC
- Sloan Sakai Yeung & Wong LLP
- SMUD
- Thomas Law Group
Supporter
- Anna Molander and Kai Hermann
- Autumn Gonzales and Kellen Dulap
- Bob and Choco Leandro Dresser
- Bradley/Metzinger, APC
- Carolyn Langenkamp
- Ed Lowry and Susan Underwood
- Emily Sanson-Smith and Sage Smith
- Jay and Debbie Friednman
- Jessica Chan Cobarras
- Langenkamp, Curtis & Price, LLC
- Lighthouse Public Affairs
- Martha West
- Mary Louise Frampton
- Mike Whiteside
- Professional Engineers in California Government
- Ruth Silver Taube
- Teamsters Local 439