Rest in Power: AFSCME family mourns the loss of trailblazing leader Lillian Roberts

Lillian Roberts, the former executive director of AFSCME District Council 37 and a giant of the labor movement, has died.

AFSCME President Lee Saunders announced her passing in a special message to members and honored her legacy as a trailblazer.

“Her leadership at DC 37 and across AFSCME left a lasting mark on this union and on generations of labor leaders who followed her,” Saunders wrote. 

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