Gene Bruskin

Gene Bruskin is a retired 45 year veteran of labor and international solidarity work. He has served as a USWA Local president, spent two years as Jesse Jackson’s labor director in the 1990s and 10 years as Secretary Treasurer of the Food and Allied Service Trades of the AFL-CIO. He was the UFCW Justice@Smithfield Campaign Director organizing 5,000 meatpacking workers in North Carolina in 2008. During the Iraq war he was a founder of US Labor Against the War and has done extensive international labor solidarity work for struggles in Central America, South Africa, Cuba , the Philippines, Iraq and Israel/Palestine . He recently helped establish the National Labor Network for Ceasefire in Gaza. He is currently mentoring Amazon workers in various locations Since retirement from AFT in 2012 he has written and produced 3 musicals, and his current production is called The Return of John Brown. (www.thereturnofjohnbrown.com)