Rand Wilson
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Rand Wilson is communications coordinator at the AFL-CIO Organizing Dept.'s Center for Strategic Research.[1] He has worked as a union organizer and “labor communicator” for more than twenty years. He was s based in Massachusetts
Labor activism
Wilson currently works for Jobs with Justice, Most recently, Wilson worked as Communications Director for Service Employees International Union Local 285 in Boston.
While at Local 285, he was actively involved in health care reform, helping to spearhead a statewide Jobs with Justice Health Care Action Day and “Take a Break for Health Care,” a short on-the-job membership education program.[2]
Wilson has also served as Communications Coordinator for the AFL-CIO organizing department’s Center for Strategic Research.[3]
Democratic Socialists of America
Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Awards Reception
On June 12, 2001, Rand Wilson was a supporter of the annual Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Awards reception which is hosted by Boston Democratic Socialists of America. The Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Award is presented to "leaders who fight for democracy, here at home and around the world". Ed Clark, Honorary Vice Chair of Democratic Socialists of America; and Communist Party USA-linked Dessima Williams received the Debs-Thomas-Bernstein Award, while DSAer John Maher received the Michael Harrington Lifetime Achievement Award. DSAer David Knuttunen; Boston-based "social justice" organization Neighbor to Neighbor; and In These Times members Abby Rockefeller and Lee Halprin were benefactors of the reception. The reception took place at the home of DSAer Marcia Peters and her husband David Karaus in Jamaica Plain.[4]
DSA Speakers Bureau
Wilson is a member of the Boston Democratic Socialists of America Speakers Bureau.[5]
How Class Works
At the How Class Works - 2002 Conference, panels included; 6.2 Recent Strike Experiences
- Steve Early, Communications Workers of America Region 1
“ CWA and the Verizon Strike”
- Joel Ochoa, International Association of Machinists, California
“ The 1996 California Drywallers’ Strike”
- Peter Olney, UC Berkeley – Institute for Labor and Employment
“ Resurrecting the Strike as Labor’s Primary Weapon”
“ Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles”
- Rand Wilson, Service Employees International Union
“ The Teamsters and UPS”
- Peter Olney, Chair[6]
Center for Labor Renewal
In 2009 Rand Wilson was listed as an endorser of the Center for Labor Renewal[7].
References
- ↑ In these times bio, accessed march 3, 2011
- ↑ http://www.dsaboston.org/speakersbureau.pdf
- ↑ http://www.dsaboston.org/yradical/yr2008-09.pdf
- ↑ The Yankee Radical, June 2001, page 1
- ↑ http://www.dsaboston.org/speakersbureau.pdf
- ↑ How Class Works - 2002 Conference Schedule (accessed July 24 2010)
- ↑ http://www.centerforlaborrenewal.org/?P=EN
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