CGA History & Past Award Winners
HISTORY OF CUSHING-GAVIN AWARDS DINNER
Perhaps the best-known single project of the Labor Guild is its annual award for outstanding service in the eastern Massachusetts labor relations community. The program was launched in 1967, largely at the prompting of the Guild Chaplain, Father Mortimer (Mort) Gavin, S.J. As a professional mediator, Fr. Mort understood the value of top-notch practitioners, so he created an awards program aimed to:
- provide well-deserved recognition to individual practitioners for excellence and singular service in labor-management affairs;
- offer both inspiration and education to the general labor-management community by showcasing outstanding contributors;
- bring greater visibility to the Guild and all its programs;
- nurture a more bipartisan and atmosphere within the Labor Guild,
- contribute critical financial resources to support the Guild’s work.
Naming the Awards after Boston’s highly popular and respected Archbishop Richard Cushing was a natural choice, as he was the founder of and an essential advocate for the Guild in the post-war years. The son of a Boston Elevated Railway blacksmith, Cushing worked as a janitor throughout his high school and college years. His working class roots and life experience informed his long and public record of advocating for a strong, responsible labor movement, while being sensitive to the legitimate needs of the business community. His involvement in the early years of the Awards Dinner immediately afforded it substantial stature within the community. More telling for the Dinner’s long-term success was the spirit of mutuality he introduced at the very first Awards Dinner.
“We all tend to live in our own special isolation, building walls about ourselves, and considering only the problems that are closest to each of us individually. Tonight we sit together in a spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood, recognizing that most of our difficulties we share with each other, most of our ideals we pursue together, and most of our progress will be made together or it will not be made at all.” – Richard Cardinal Cushing, 1967
That first dinner attracted over 700 people. Five decades later, the 2011 CGA Dinner drew an impressive 900 guests. Yet, as Guild Chaplain Fr. Edward Boyle wrote in 1995: “Numbers alone cannot be the accurate gauge of what this event represents to the labor-management community. That can only be registered in the hearts and minds of those attending, and the fresh commitments and deepened sensitivities nurtured by this event.”
PAST AWARD WINNERS
2021 CGA RECIPIENTS
BOYLE
Marjorie Wittner
Chair, Commonwealth of MA Employment Relations Board
LABOR
Joseph DeLorey, Esq.
AFSCME Council 93
MANAGEMENT
Joseph R. Nolan Jr.
President, CEO, Eversource Energy
ATTORNEY
Keith H. McCown, Esq.
Partner, Morgan Brown & Joy LLP
2020 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
Janet Wilder
Lead Organizer SHARE/AFSCME
MANAGEMENT
Arthur R. Osborn, Jr.
President, Osborn Labor Management Consulting
ATTORNEY
Amy Laura Davidson, Esq.
Partner, Sandulli Grace P.C.
BOYLE AWARD
John Hanson
Chairman, Joint Labor Management Committee for Municipal Fire and Police
2019 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
Rich Rogers
Executive Secretary and Treasurer, Greater Boston Labor Council
MANAGEMENT
Mary Walsh, Ph.D.
Professor and Daniel Kearns Chair, Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
MANAGEMENT
William Gross,
Commissioner, Boston Police Department
ATTORNEY
Michael J Maccaro, Esq.
Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane
BOYLE AWARD
F. Donal O’Brien
Arbitrator and Mediator
2018 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
Stephen Finnigan
Sub-District Director, United Steelworkers
MANAGEMENT
Stephen Coyle
Chief Executive Officer, AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust
ATTORNEY
Anne R. Sills, Esq.
Partner, Segal Roitman, LLP
BOYLE AWARD
Sarah Kerr Garraty, Esq.
Mediator/Arbitrator
2017 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
Cynthia A. Rodrigues
President, Greater Southeastern MA CLC and NE Joint Board, UNITE HERE
MANAGEMENT
Stephen P. Affanato
Executive VP, New England, Mechanical Contractors (NEMCA)
ATTORNEY
Mark W. Batten, Esq.
Partner, Proskauer
BOYLE AWARD
David Weil, Ph.D.
Dean, Heller School, Brandeis – Former Administrator, Wage & Hour Division, US Dept of Labor
2016 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
Francis C. Boudrow
Business Manager
Heat & Frost Insulators and Allied Workers, Local #6
MANAGEMENT
Glenn Kingsbury
Executive Director
National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), Boston Chapter
BOYLE AWARD
MICHAEL D. FELSEN, Esq.
Regional Solicitor
United States Department of Labor
2015 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
Richard O. Charette
United Food & Commercial Workers Local #1445
Chair, Interstate Health & Welfare Fund
Retired President
BOYLE AWARD
GINA M. ALONGI
Executive Director, Massachusetts Coalition of Taft-Hartley Trust Funds
Administrator, IUOE (Operating Engineers) Local 4 Benefits Funds
2014 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
William D. McLaughlin
President & Business RepresentativeInternational Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local #4
MANAGEMENT
2013 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
Julie Betts Pinkham, RN
Executive Director, Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA)
MANAGEMENT
John F. Torpey Jr.
Director, Corporate Labor Relations, Raytheon Company
ATTORNEY
D.M. Moschos, Esq.
Partner, Mirick O’Connell
BOYLE AWARD
James S. Cooper
Arbitrator
2012 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
John P. Dumas
President, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local #103
BOYLE AWARD
Barry Bluestone, Ph.D.
Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, Director, Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy, Northeastern University
2011 CGA RECIPIENTS
LABOR
LABOR
- 2010 – Louis G. Rasetta
Int’l Union of Operating Engineers, Local 4 - 2009 – Martin Callaghan
Boston Newspaper Printing Pressmen’s Union Local #3 - 2008 – Rocio Saenz
SEIU #615 - 2007 – Michael Monahan
IBEW #l03 - 2006 – Jay Hurley
Iron Workers #7 - 2005 – Kathleen Kelley
AFT - 2004 – Kevin Cotter
Plumbers #12 - 2003 – Robert Banks
Ironworkers #7 - 2002 – Kathleen A. Casavant
Mass. AFL-CIO - 2001 – Paul Hannon
Steelworkers - 2000 – Chuck Monahan
IBEW #l03 - 1999 – Phillip Trombly
Brotherhood, UWUA - 1998 – William Ryan
IUOE #4 - 1997 – Joseph Dart
Mass. Building Trades - 1996 – Donald Wrightman
UWUA - 1995 – John Phinney
UFCW #1445 - 1994 – Carol Knox
UAW Reg 9A - 1993 – Robert J. Haynes
Mass. AFL-CIO - 1992 – Joseph Nigro
Boston Building Trades Council - 1991 – James Grande
Operating Engineers, Apprentice Training Program - 1990 – Robert Petronella
UFCW - 1989 – Kristine Rondeau
AFSCME - 1988 – Thomas Mclntyre
Bricklayers International - 1987 – Joseph Bonavita
AFSCME Council #93 - 1986 – James E. Mahoney
OPEIU Local #6 - 1985 – Arthur Osborn
Mass. AFL-CIO - 1984 – Joseph Faherty
Utility Workers #387 - 1983 – Thomas Evers
State Building Trades - 1982 – Michael Botelho
AFSCME Council #93 - 1981 – Thomas Climo
Sugar Workers #166, ILA - 1980 – John A. Callahan
State AFL-CIO - 1979 – John F. O’Malley
AFL-CIO Region 8 - 1978 – Frank Every
Machinists Dist. Lodge #38 - 1977 – Lawrence C. Sullivan
Boston Labor Council - 1976 – Richard Coleman, Esq.
Segal, Roitman & Coleman - 1975 – Paul McNamara
United Transportation - 1974 – Joseph Stefani
Hotel & Restaurant Workers - 1973 – Erika Pinault
AFSCME - 1972 – Edward Moore
Paperworkers - 1971 – Clifton Caldwell
Meat Cutters - 1970 – Fred Ramsey
Construction - 1969 – Thomas Owens
Brewery Workers - 1968 – Val Murphy
Utility Workers, Boston Labor Council - 1967 – Donn Berry
IBEW #l03
MANAGEMENT
- 2010 – John Messervy, AIA
Partners HealthCare - 2009 – William F. Dowd
National Grid - 2008 – Robert J. Lewis
Boston College - 2007 – Diane Crimmins
Town of Belmont - 2006 – Frederick A. Laskey
MWRA - 2005 – Joanne Salines
Partners Healthcare - 2004 – Patricia Day
Massport - 2003 – Virginia Tisei
Boston Schools - 2002 – Gregory Thornton, Esq.
Boston Globe - 2001 – Richard Meyer
Massport - 2000 – Thomas J. Gunning
Building Trades Employers - 1999 – Kenneth Paradis
Bechtel/Parsons/Brinkerhof - 1998 – Steven Grossman
Mass. Envelope - 1997 – Douglas MacDonaId
MWRA - 1996 – Timothy Manning
Harvard University - 1995 – Theodore Brodie
N.E. Insulation - 1994 – David Perini
Perini Corporation - 1993 – John J. Higgins
Boston Edison Company - 1992 – Michael Metzler
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital - 1991 – Jack Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy & Ahern - 1990 – John J. Cohane
Boston Gas Company - 1989 – John L. Ritchie
Trial Court - 1988 – Anthony Sapienza
Grieco Bros., Inc. - 1987 – Thomas Sullivan
Greater Boston PHCC - 1986 – John J. Manning
Boston Herald - 1985 – Paul F. Dempsey
Mass. Hospital Association - 1984 – William Vaughn, III
The Stop & Shop Company - 1983 – John R. McKeon
State Office Employee Relations - 1982 – Harold Raybould
Quincy Market & Cold Storage - 1981 – Arthur Vershbow
Modern Die & Machine - 1980 – Malcolm MacKinnon
The Boston Globe - 1979 – Bertram Creese
Leather Manufacturers Association - 1978 – Thomas Gunning
Building Trades Employers - 1977 – John Murphy
Bird & Son Inc. - 1976 – William O. Murdock
John Hancock - 1975 – Sheldon Appel
Perkit Box Company - 1974 – Peter Killelea
Boston Gas Company - 1973 – Thomas L. O’Donnell
Attorney, Arbitrator, Ropes & Gray - 1972 – Thomas Cathcart
Eastern Gas & Fuel - 1971 – E. Leonard Kane
Raytheon Company - 1970 – Eugene Barnes
Boston Newspapers - 1969 – Joel Leighton
Mass. AGC - 1968 – David Fine
The Stop & Shop Companies - 1967 – John Hennessy
Boston Edison
ATTORNEY
- 2010 – Burton E. Rosenthal, Esq.
Segal Roitman, LLP - 2009 – James F. Grosso, Esq.
O’Reilly, Grosso & Gross - 2008 – Joseph G. Sandulli, Esq.
Sandulli Grace, P.C. - 2007 – Philip G. Boyle, Esq.
Morgan, Brown & Joy - 2006 – Ira Sills, Esq.
Segal, Roitman & Coleman - 2005 – Paul Kingston, Esq.
Rubin & Rudman - 2004 – E. David Wanger, Esq.
Angoff, Goldman, et al. - 2003 – John O’Reilly, III
O’Reilly Grosso & Gross - 2002 – Alan J. McDonald, Esq.
McDonald and Associates - 2001 – Nelson Ross, Esq.
Ropes & Gray - 2000 – Joanne Goldstein, Esq.
General Counsel, UWUA - 1999 – Robert Holland, Esq.
Deutsch, Williams, et al - 1998 – Wendy Bittner, Esq.
Bittner Law - 1997 – Katherine Hesse, Esq.
Murphy, Hesse, et al - 1996 – Paul Kelly, Esq.
Segal, Roitman & Coleman - 1995 – Michael Lehane, Esq.
Murphy, Hesse, et al - 1994 – Donald J. Siegel, Esq.
Segal, Roitman & Coleman - 1993 – Ellen C. Kearns, Esq.
Kearns & Rubin - 1992 – Warren Pyle, Esq.
Angoff, Goldman, et al - 1991 – William Joy, Sr., Esq
Morgan, Brown & Joy - 1990 – Augustus Camelio, Esq
AFSCME Counci1 #93 - 1989 – Arthur P. Murphy, Esq.
Murphy, Hesse, et al - 1988 – Arthur Flamm, Esq
Flamm & Birmingham - 1987 – Allan W. Drachman, Esq
Deutsch, Williams, et al - 1986 – Robert M. Segal, Esq.
Segal, Roitman, & Coleman - 1985 – Alvin M. Glazerman, Esq.
Edwards & Angell - 1984 – Robert Manning, Esq.
Angoff, Goldman, et al - 1983 – Allan A. Tepper, Esq
Snyder, Tepper & Comen - 1982 – James Grady, Esq.
Grady, Dumont & Dwyer
BOYLE AWARD
- 2010 – Nancy Peace
Arbitrator Consultant - 2009 – Suzanne M. Bump
Mass. Secretary of Labor and Workplace Development - 2008 – Robert B. McKersie
MIT/Sloan School of Management - 2007 – Edward J. Boyle, S.J.
Archdiocean Labor Guild - 2006 – L. Christine Oliver, MD
OSH, MGH - 2005 – Lawrence Holden
Arbitrator - 2004 – John Coughlin
Blue Cross/Blue Shield - 2003 – David Grafton
OSHA - 2002 – Joseph Kane
NLRB - 2001 – Joan Dolan
Arbitrator - 2000 – Elaine Bernard
HTUP - 1999 – Susan R. Brown
Arbitrator - 1998 – Thomas Kochan
MIT - 1997 – Gerard Gomez
FMCS - 1996 – Roberta Golick
Arbitrator - 1995 – Paul McDevitt
Modern Assistance - 1994 – Edward F. Eagan
OSHA - 1993 – R. Robert Rodwell
United Way - 1992 – Helen Moreschi
Mass. Department of Industrial Accidents - 1991 – Diane Zaar Cochran
- 1990 – Paul Eustace
Mass. Secretary of Labor - 1989 – Michael F. Walsh
NLRB - 1988 – John J. Martin
FMCS - 1987 – Richard M. Reilly
AAA - 1986 – Arnold M. Zack
Arbitrator - 1985 – Sherman G. Sass
Martin E. Segal Co. - 1984 – Wilfrid Rodgers
The Boston Globe - 1983 – Robert J. Halloran
Blue Cross-Blue Shield - 1982 – James Healy
Arbitrator, Harvard University - 1981 – Marcia Greenbaum
Arbitrator - 1980 – John E. Higgins
Arbitrator - 1979 – Robert Fuchs
NLRB - 1978 – John T. Dunlop
Harvard University, Arbitrator - 1977 – Charles Myers
MIT Arbitrator - 1976 – Richard Goggin
Federal Mediation Service - 1975 – John Church
AAA - 1974 – William J. Fallen
Arbitrator - 1973 – Howard Myers
Northeastern University - 1972 – Paul Mulkern
U.S. Department of Labor - 1971 – David Grodsky
State Med. & Council - 1970 – Wendell MacDonaId
BLS-USDOL - 1969 – Joseph O’Donnell
Harvard, HTUP - 1968 – Donald White
Boston College, Arbitrator - 1967 – Daniel Hurley
FMCS