Mike Johnston

Mike Johnston is a lifelong labor activist (now retired) in the agricultural and food processing industries as a rank-and-file worker, union representative, elected Teamster official, and employee of the UFW, TDU, Teamster food worker locals in Stockton and Salinas, CA, and the IBT, whose first electoral work was walking precincts for antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy as a 15-year-old in 1968. He spent the 1980s as a member of the League of Revolutionary Struggle. He lives in Watsonville, CA, with Heidi Perlmutter, his wife of 42 years.