Mike Louis, Gina Walsh honored for leadership
By SHERI GASSAWAY
Assistant Editor
Maryland Heights, MO – Some 240 people packed this year’s Third Annual St. Louis Labor Council “Dick Kellett $5 for the Fight Comedy Night,” raising $5,225 for local union members in need.
The Feb. 24 event, co-hosted by the Labor Tribune, was held at the CWA Local 6300 union hall in Maryland Heights. Guests were entertained by three comedians – Sean O’Brien, Johnny Kavanaugh and Joe Marlotti.
“I was really pleased with the turnout,” said Morton Todd, the event’s organizer. “I had quite a few people come up to me after the event who said they really enjoyed themselves.”
The late Dick Kellett was a fierce fighter for the working men and women of Missouri. His legacy is honored through raising money to help union families that are facing tough times through the “$5 for the Fight” fund, contributions to which are now tax-deductible.
Prior to the laughs, the St. Louis Labor Council paid tribute to Mike Louis, former president of the Missouri AFL-CIO, and former Missouri Senator Gina Walsh, deputy director of the International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators Union Labor Management and Cooperative Trust (LMCT).
Both were honored for their leadership in the battle to overturn so called “right-to-work” in Missouri in 2018. Missourians rejected Proposition A by a better than two-to-one majority.
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