Bill Camp, longtime Sacramento labor leader, champion for social justice and workers, dies at 80

The Sacramento Bee | October 1, 2024

Bill Camp, the longtime head of the Sacramento Central Labor Council who left a lasting legacy as a champion of social justice and workers’ rights, has died. Camp died Sept. 23. He was 80.

“We have lost a true leader; the best of us,” the Sacramento Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the organization Camp led from 1999-2014 as its executive secretary, said in a remembrance marking his passing. “Bill’s tireless advocacy for working families was rooted in his profound compassion and his moral conviction that no one should be left behind,” the labor council said in the statement.

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