Staff
Executive Director Joe Uehlein is the former secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO’s Industrial Union Department and former director of the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Campaigns. He spent over 30 years doing organizing, bargaining, and strategic campaign work in the labor movement. He is a founder and board member of Ceres, and a member of the National Advisory Board of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He also served on the United Nations commission on global warming in the 1990’s. He is now organizing the Labor Network for Sustainability dedicated to rallying trade unionists for economic, social and environmental sustainability. In the early 1970’s he worked in an aluminum mill as a member of the United Steelworkers of America, and on heavy and highway construction projects as a member of the Laborer’s International Union of North America.
Support Staff:
Brendan Smith is an oysterman and green labor activist. He is co-founder of the Global Labor Strategies, co-director of the UCLA Law School’s Globalization and Labor Standards Project, and a consulting partner with the Progressive Technology Project. He has worked previously for Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — both as a senior legislative aide, election campaign co-director and staff on the U.S. House Banking Committee — as well as a broad range of trade unions, grassroots groups and progressive politicians. Brendan has published two books and his commentary has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Nation, HuffingtonPost and CBS News.com. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School and a member of CWA Local 9119. For more than 20 years Brendan has worked off and on as a commercial fisherman and now runs an organic oyster farm off the Thimble Islands of Long Island Sound. Contact him at www.bsmith.org.
Jeremy Brecher is a writer and labor historian. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Strike! and Globalization from Below. He has received five regional Emmy Awards for his documentary film work.
Julie Farb Blain has 15 years experience as a researcher, educator and organizer in support of labor, economic justice and environmental sustainability. She has designed, planned, and implemented research strategies for smart growth, union organizing and grassroots advocacy. Julie developed a joint strategic research training program with students at the University of Washington and union members in support of organizing campaigns. She has worked as a research analyst for Good Jobs First and the Corporate Research Project; served as research director for the Worker Center, AFL-CIO in Seattle and the Seattle Union Now cooperative organizing project, and as a research assistant at the Center for Sustainable Communities in Seattle.
In Memoriam: LNS Co-Founder Tim Costello passesd away in December 2009. He had over 40 years of work and union experience in the area. He helped organize and served (until July 2005) as Coordinator of the Boston based North American Alliance for Fair Employment a network of 65 unions and community based organizations in the US and Canada. Costello was a truck driver and workplace activist for many years; following that, he worked on the staff of SEIU. He has extensive collective bargaining experience in a number of industries.
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