“He might not be a household name among most county residents. But for almost four decades, Gino Renne, head of the union that represents a majority of the Montgomery County government’s workforce, has been an influential — and intimidating — presence in the Executive Office Building and the County Council chambers in Rockville.” Renne, president of UFCW Local 1994 MCGEO, candidly discusses his union’s rise and the recent history of labor-management relations in Montgomery County’s public sector in an interview with Bethesda Magazine published in conjunction with an examination of the history and role of Montgomery County’s public employee unions that appears in the November/December edition of the magazine.