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Brigette Browning is president of Unite Here! Local 30, a hotel workers union. / Photo by Megan Wood
This week the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council announced that Brigette Browning will run unopposed to become the new executive secretary-treasurer of the group, the union of labor unions for the region. Browning has been the leader of Unite HERE, the hotel and restaurant workers union.
SAN DIEGO
Keith Maddox, one of San Diego’s most powerful labor leaders, announced Wednesday that he will return home to Alabama in April after four years boosting the stability and solidarity of the region’s labor movement.
Maddox will resign his position as executive secretary-treasurer of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, an umbrella organization for 136 local labor unions that consolidates their power, resources and lobbying efforts.
His departure coincides with the end of his elected term in the job, which he took over in 2017 during a tumultuous period that included in-fighting among unions and a sexual misconduct scandal involving former leader Mickey Kasparian.