Bruce S. Raynor

Bruce Raynor "is the President of Workers United, an SEIU affiliated union... Raynor began his career in the education department of the former Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) in 1973... Raynor was elected Secretary Treasurer of UNITE in 1999, and President in 2001 and was elected General President of UNITE HERE at the union's founding convention in July 2004. Raynor was elected President of Workers United...

"He is Chairman of the Board of Amalgamated Life Insurance Company, a union-affiliated insurance company established in 1943 which provides insurance services to Workers United and other union members. As Chairman of the Amalgamated Bank, the only union-owned bank in the U.S., with assets of more than $4.5 billion, and as former co-chair and current member of the Council of Institutional Investors, an organization of institutional investors that control $3 trillion in pension funds, he is a leader in corporate governance and capital strategies initiatives. Raynor is also President of The Sidney Hillman Foundation, a foundation that supports and rewards socially conscious journalism.

"He is a member of Cornell University's Board of Trustees since 1988 and serves on the Advisory Board for the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He graduated from Cornell's ILR School in 1972 and in 1999, received the ILR School's Groat Award for Distinguished Alumni."


 * Director, Economic Policy Institute