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The Massachusetts AFL-CIO has pledged $5 million for a cancer research lab at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., the Boston Globe reports. This is one of the largest single pledges made to the university.

The state AFL-CIO president, Robert Haynes, has committed the 404,000-member union to raise at least $1 million in each of the next five years. The main annual fundraising event will be an walk around Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, the paper reports. The money will be used to fund a UMass cancer research lab named in honor of the AFL-CIO.

Haynes says he became involved with the UMass program while taking a friend, Daniel Manning Sr., to cancer treatment sessions at the Worcester facility. Manning died of cancer in 1997.

Manning, who was chief of public safety at the UMass Medical Center, had started his own charitable group to support the center following the 1994 death of his oldest son, Daniel Jr., from leukemia.

The Our Danny Cancer Fund brings in about $250,000 a year. It has been the main annual charity effort to support research at the five-year-old UMass center.

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