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.

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, farmworkers, workers centers, the United Electrical Workers (UE), and Jobs with Justice for Labor Notes.

Editor and Labor Notes East Coast Office

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, he has appeared in many alternative outlets, and unwillingly, twice in the Wall St. Journal. He covers the Communications Workers (CWA), Steelworkers, UNITE HERE, and postal workers.

Assistant Editor

Paul came to Detroit soon after finishing school in Ann Arbor, where he wrote for The Michigan Independent and did Palestine solidarity work on campus. For Labor Notes, he covers teachers, public sector workers, young workers, and the international beat.

Jane started working with Labor Notes in 1979, eventually serving as editor and director. She is the author of Concessions and How To Beat Them and co-author, with Mike Parker, of Choosing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept and Working Smart: A Union Guide to Participation Programs and Reengineering. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Progressive, In These Times, and Monthly Review, among others.

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 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 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 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.