Bargaining for the Common Good Advisory Committee

The Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations is a core partner of the growing Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) network, along with the Action Center on Race and the Economy and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. The Bargaining for the Common Good Advisory Committee, a new national advisory group composed of key union, community and racial justice leaders to help guide and support the BCG network, was recently announced. 

Members of the BCG Advisory Committee include:

• Afua Atta-Mensah
  Chief of Programs, Community Change
• Rob Baril
  President, District 1199 NE/SEIU
• Kevin Connor
  Executive Director, Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) and LittleSis
• Cindy Estrada
  Vice President, Chrysler for the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
• Rev. Francisco García
  PhD student in Religion at Vanderbilt University, Graduate Research Fellow at Vanderbilt Divinity School’s Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice
• Henry A. Garrido
  Executive Director, AFSCME District Council 37
• Stacy Davis Gates
  Vice President, Chicago Teachers Union, AFT Local 1
• Lauren Jacobs
  Executive Director, Partnership for Working Families (PWF)
• Christina Livingston
  Executive Director, Alliance for the Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), California
• Darlene Lombos
  Executive Director, Community Labor United (CLU) in Boston
• Erin Mahoney
  Organizing Coordinator, Communication Workers of America, (CWA), AFL-CIO and Director of Bank Workers Organizing
• Veronica Mendez Moore
  Co-Director, Co-Director at Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL)
• Cecily Myart-Cruz
  President, United Teachers of Los Angeles
• Merrie Najimy
  President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA)
• Greg Nammacher
  President of SEIU Local 26
• Patrick Nowlan
  Executive Director of the American Association of University Professors/American Federation of Teachers (AAUP/AFT), AFL-CIO at Rutgers University
• Amisha Patel
  Executive Director of Grassroots Collaborative and Grassroots Illinois Action
• Liz Perlman
  Executive Director of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Local 3299
• Clayton Sinyai
  Executive Director of the Catholic Labor Network
• Erica Smiley
  Co-Executive Director of Jobs with Justice (JwJ)