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Rand Wilson

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Rand Wilson has worked as a union organizer and labor communicator since the early 1980s. He started in the labor movement as a member of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union Local 8-366 where he led several organizing drives, was chief steward, and served on his local union's executive board.

In 1989 he helped coordinate solidarity efforts in Mass. during a successful 3-month strike by 60,000 telephone workers against health care benefit cost-shifting. The strike victory helped spur the formation of Mass. Jobs with Justice. As the founding director in the early 1990s, Wilson spearheaded efforts to support legislation for universal health care and against NAFTA and the World Trade Organization.

In 1995, Wilson worked for the Teamsters union and helped develop the union's 1997 contract strategy for national negotiations for 185,000 members at UPS. Wilson coordinated communications for a year-long campaign to build membership unity and get members involved in actions to support winning a good contract. When national contract talks broke down, Wilson was chief spokesperson during an historic 15-day strike. The Teamsters won a contract that created 10,000 new full-time jobs, limited subcontracting, and increased funding in Teamster pension plans.

Inspired by Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 primary campaign, Wilson helped coordinate Labor for Bernie, a network of 6 national unions, over 100 local unions and nearly 50,000 union activists. He was elected a Massachusetts "Sanders delegate" to the Democratic National Convention in July 2016 and an Our Revolution delegate to the Mass. Democratic Convention in June 2017. Today he is helping to build Our Revolution (the Sanders' campaign successor organization) at the state and local level in Massachusetts, while organizing Labor for Our Revolution to unite unions and other worker organizations to continue the political revolution.

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