[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 130 (Friday, September 25, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1807]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


    A TRIBUTE TO MARILYN BERGER, CONTRA COSTA CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL

                                 ______
                                 

                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 25, 1998

  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to invite my 
colleagues to join me in recognizing Marilyn Berger, the retiring 
office manager for the Contra Costa Central Labor Council. Ms. Berger 
has held together the operations of our country's organized labor for 
almost 20 years. Her outstanding service is being recognized in my 
district at a Labor-to-Labor banquet held on Tuesday, October 8, 1998 
in Concord.
  I wish to express my sincere gratitude for a job well done. Marilyn 
has kept the Central Labor Council on the cutting edge of technology 
and is self-taught in her computer skills. Her talents as office 
manager saw her through the terms of three Secretary-Treasurers of 
Labor Council.
  Marilyn Berger has been a member of the Office and Professional 
Employees Union, Local 29 since August 1, 1979. She held two positions 
before coming to the Central Labor Council. As a teenager, she worked 
for the FBI in San Francisco, and she was a secretary for the 
Inlandboatmens Union, also in San Francisco.
  She has led a full life as a working women and a devoted mother of 
two sons and two daughters. Marilyn has many interests outside of work 
including biking, and attending opera, theatre and film presentations.
  I know everyone associated with the Central Labor Council and all of 
us who need to call their office from time to time are going to greatly 
miss Marilyn Berger when she retires. I wish her the very best 
retirement has to offer.

                          ____________________