American Labor Leader
1. David Dubinsky (1892)
American Labor Leader
Former President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and a founder of the American Labor Party. He also helped create the Congress of Industrial organizations, a federation of industrial...
2. Jimmy Hoffa (1913)
American Labor Leader
Teamsters Union leader from 1957 to 1971 who vanished mysteriously in 1975, and was officially declared dead in 1982. He was heavily involved in organized crime and in 1964 he...
3. Dolores Huerta (1930)
American Labor Leader
Advocate for women's' rights and immigrant workers' rights, who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which is now known as the United Farm Workers, in 1962.
4. Baldemar Velasquez (1947)
American Labor Leader
Labor union activist who co-founded the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a labor union representing migrant farm workers in the Midwest, in 1967.
5. Andy Stern (1950)
American Labor Leader
Former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
6. Cleveland Robinson (1914)
American Labor Leader
Cleveland Lowellyn Cleve Robinson was an American labor organizer and civil rights activist.
7. J. J. Jelincic (1948)
American Labor Leader
Joseph John Jelincic Jr. better known as J. J. Jelincic is a member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System Board and is the past president of the California State...
8. D. Hamilton Jackson (1885)
American Labor Leader
David Hamilton Jackson was a United States Virgin Islands civil rights leader. At the time of his birth the Territory was under the rule of Danish West Indies. Jackson was...
9. Karen Nussbaum (1950)
American Labor Leader
Karen Nussbaum is the executive director of Working America a community affiliate of the AFL-CIO. She co-founded the organization in 2003 and has overseen the group's climb to over 2....
10. Randi Weingarten (1957)
American Labor Leader
Randi Weingarten is an American labor leader attorney and educator the current president of the American Federation of Teachers a member of the AFL-CIO and former president of the United...
11. Lane Kirkland (1922)
American Labor Leader
Joseph Lane Kirkland was a US labor union leader who served as President of the AFL-CIO for over sixteen years.
