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Andrew was elected as a Director of CFS2 November 2016.
Andy Stern is the former president of the 2.2-million-member Service Employees International
Union (SEIU), the largest union of health care, doctors, nurses, janitors, security
officers, child care, home care, hospital, and state workers, and the fastest- growing
union in North America. As a labor leader Stern led efforts for all workers to produce
solutions on major issues confronting American workers, most importantly universal
health care and comprehensive immigration reform, and living wages.
Called a “courageous, visionary leader who charted a bold new course for American
unionism,” Mr. Stern has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN and on the
covers of the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Business Week,
as well as being named the Fox Power Player of the Week. Under his tenure as president,
SEIU bucked the trend and through its signature national and global organizing campaigns
SEIU grew by more than 1.2 million workers, turning traditionally underpaid service
work into jobs that can help support a family and lift up a community. Mr. Stern
began working as a social service worker and member of SEIU Local 668 in 1971. He
served as Organizing Director for SEIU before his landmark election as president
in 1996. After launching a national debate about the fundamental change needed to
unite the 9 out of 10 American workers who have no organization at work, Mr. Stern
led SEIU out of the AFL-CIO and transformed the national labor landscape by founding
the Change to Win labor federation with six other major unions in 2005. He retired
from SEIU in 2010.
Mr. Stern was a Presidential Appointee on the Simpson-Bowles Commission, is a board
member of the Broad Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Open Society Foundation,
the Economic Policy Institute, been the President of the Kaiser Permanente Partnership,
and is a Senior Fellow at Columbia University. His first book A Country That Works
was published in 2005, and he is currently working on a second on the future of
work.
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