Gene Bruskin
Gene Bruskin is a 37 year veteran of the labor movement as a local union president, an organizer and campaign coordinator for numerous local and national unions. He worked as the labor director for the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition and served as Secretary Treasurer for the Food and Allied Service Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. He was the UFCW Director for the successful Justice@Smithfield Campaign He has done extensive international labor solidarity work, including with Iraqi workers and uinions, and is a founder of US Labor Against the War. He retired in September 2012 after establishing and leading the Strategic Campaigns Department for the AFT and is presently working as a consultant for several unions. He is currently in the process of producing a musical comedy for and about unions and workers called Pray For the Dead-A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls and Mutiny. (www.gofundme.com/prayfor the dead)