People at Labor Notes

STAFF

Director and Labor Notes East Coast Office

Mark joined the staff in September 2005. He comes to Labor Notes from the University of Massachusetts where he spent several years working with living wage campaigns around the country, as well as playing a leading role in his union. Mark currently covers SEIU, teachers, higher education, and the living wage movement for the magazine.

Assistant director and Labor Notes East Coast Office

Marsha was a graduate student in Political Science at York University, Toronto, as well as an editorial assistant for an academic publication. As an active member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, she served on the executive board during her local's 11 week strike in the Fall/Winter of 2000. She has been working with TIE since 1995, and coordinates the TIE international and cross-border programs with Teofilo Reyes (the former co-director of Labor Notes). Marsha covers longshore workers (ILA/ILWU), UE, telecom/CWA, the Canadian auto industry, Canadian and European labor, as well as international economic issues.

Editor

Chris joined the staff in July 2002. Prior to working at Labor Notes Chris was a local officer in Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1549 in Austin, Texas. He has served as an editor and writer for several alternative publications, the most recent of which being the Working Stiff Journal, a monthly newspaper covering labor issues in Central Texas. He currently covers Teamsters, transit, airlines, and rail.

Promotions coordinator, web steward

Tiffany, a Michigan native, joins staff after working in Immokalee, Florida, with the Student/Farmworker Alliance and the successful Taco Bell Boycott campaign. A former SEIU intern, USAS activist, and anti-war agitator; she will be covering the UAW, Building Trades, Immigrant workers, farmworkers, Workers Centers, and Jobs with Justice for Labor Notes.

Assistant editor

After several eye-opening stints in corporate media, Mischa comes to Labor Notes from In These Times, where he was a contributing editor. With a background in student-labor activism and a turn in the Buffalo News Guild shop, his work appeared in many alternative outlets, and unwillingly, twice in the Wall St. Journal. He covers the public sector, Steelworkers, UNITE HERE, and postal workers.

Web steward

A founding endorser of Labor Notes, Ellis has written on legal subjects over the years, including TDU's Legal Rights Handbooks in the late 70s and early 80s, and recently an online practice manual [1] for UAW members in internal appeals. He co-produced a CD for the striking Detroit newspaper workers in 1996. In 2002 he visited the West Bank with a legal delegation investigating [2] Israeli war crimes. He served on the steering committee of a successful local anti-Wal-Mart coalition in 2004. Later that year he ran for prosecutor [3] as a Green in his northern Michigan county, winning 2000 votes (18%). He began managing the website in 2001.

Layout

Jim is a co-founder of LERP and founding editor of Labor Notes. Alongside the actual layout of the magazine every month, Jim arranges the photos and graphics and is responsible for the design. He works part-time. Outside of the office he is a professional photographer. His work can be seen at http://www.JimWestPhoto.com [4].

POLICY COMMITTEE

Cathy Austin, Canadian Auto Workers Local 88, President, Woodstock, Ontario

Deborah Bourque, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, President, Ottawa, Ontario

Mark Brenner, Labor Notes Director, New York

Ellen David Friedman, Vermont Workers Center

Steve Early, Former CWA District 1 administrative assistant to the vice-president, Boston

Theresa El Amin, Southern Anti-Racism Network director, NC Jobs With Justice, Durham

Elly Leary, UAW Local 2324 retired member, Florida

Ricardo Levins Morales, IUPAT Local 880, Northland Poster Collective, Minneapolis

Yanira Merino, LIUNA Immigration Coordinator, Washington D.C.

Jose Oliva, Interfaith Worker Justice Worker Center Network, Coordinator, Chicago

Dennis Orton, UE Local 150 & 160 organizer, Black Workers for Justice, North Carolina

Ken Paff, Teamsters for a Democratic Union national organizer, Detroit

Mike Parker, retired UAW 1700 member, Labor Notes author, Bay Area

Guillermo Perez, UUE-NY, Albany

Teo Reyes, Transnationals Information Exchange, Philadelphia

Leonard Riley, ILA Local 1422 member and Longshore Workers Coalition co-chair, Charleston

Louie Rocha,, CWA Local 9423, President, San Jose

Simone Sagovac, former Labor Notes co-director, Detroit

Tim Schermerhorn, Transport Workers Union Local 100 member, New York City

Jane Slaughter, Co-founder of Labor Notes, editor of A Troublemaker's Handbook 2, Detroit

Baldemar Velasquez, Farm Labor Organizing Committee president, Toledo

David Yao, APWU Greater Seattle, Chief Steward

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