George Meany (August 16, 1894 - January 10, 1980) was an American labor leader, who served as President of the American Federation of Labor from 1952 to 1955, and then, following its merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the latter year, as president of the united AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979.

John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 - June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960. He was a major player in the history of coal mining. He was the driving force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, which established the United Steel Workers of America and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s.

Chris Bowers is a blogger for OpenLeft, and was until July 2007 a front-page blogger for MyDD. His focus is polling and analysis of the political blogosphere. He tends towards data-driven analysis, such as his partisan index, a ranking of how far each state in the United States leans towards a political party. Bowers is also a member of the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee, representing the 8th district of the Pennsylvania State Senate, …

In 2005 he co-founded the journal "Situations." He has also published articles in numerous publications and with a core group of intellectuals--faculty and students-- at the Graduate Center, he spearheaded the effort to create the Center for Cultural Studies in the spirit of fostering intellectual debate, multidisciplinarity, and the toppling of high cultural privilege in academia.

Charles A. "Charlie" Wilson (b.January 18 1943 in Bridgeport, Ohio) is a Democratic politician from the U.S State of Ohio. He currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives. Wilson was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1996 and to the State Senate in 2004. In 2006, he was elected to serve as the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 6th Congressional District, the seat formerly held by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.

Tom Juravich is a professor of Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also director of the UMass Amherst Labor Relations and Research Center (LRRC), and director of the LRRC's Union Leadership and Administration program. Juravich is also a musician and labor movement activist.

Mike Farrell (born February 6, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the popular television series "M*A*S*H" (1975-83). More recently, Farrell has starred on television series "Providence" and "Desperate Housewives".

Kenneth William Hechler (born September 20 1914) --whose baptismal name was officially changed by court order to Ken Hechler -- was a long-serving West Virginia politician. He is a very liberal member of the Democratic Party, and a strong supporter of organized labor. He was a U.S. Representative from West Virginia from 1959 to 1977 and was West Virginia Secretary of State from 1985 to 2001.

James Prather Jontz was an American politician from Indianapolis, Indiana who represented the state's sprawling 5th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993. Jontz was born in Indianapolis. His political career began in 1974, sparked by his opposition to a dam-building project in Central Indiana. Running for a seat in the Indiana House of Representatives against the dam's sponsor, John Guy, the House Majority Leader, …

Jerome Davis (December 2, 1891-October 1979) was a labor organizer and sociologist. Early in his life he campaigned to reduce the workweek, and as an advocate of organized labor. He worked for the YMCA in Russia where he worked with a number of Bolshevik leaders including Lenin and Stalin. He received a PhD in sociology from Columbia University and was a professor at the Yale Divinity School.

Joseph George Minish (born September 1, 1916 in Throop, Pennsylvania) is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who represented in the United States House of Representatives. He served in the United States Army from 1945 to 1946. After a career in organized labor working for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the AFL-CIO, Joseph Minish was elected to Congress in 1962. He served there for 22 years, before being defeated in 1984.

Maury Maverick, Jr. (January 3 1921 - January 28 2003) was an American lawyer, politician, activist, and columnist from the U.S. state of Texas. A member of the prominent Maverick family, he was the great-grandson of Samuel Maverick, the rancher who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and famously refused to brand his cattle, and the son of Maury Maverick, Sr., a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives and one-term mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

Louise Brazzel Johnson (October 6, 1924 -- January 6, 2002) was a little-known insurance agent in Bernice in Union Parish who rocketed to state prominence when she upset the Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives in the 1971 Democratic primary. Johnson unseated 24-year incumbent John Sidney Garrett of Haynesville in Claiborne Parish to win the nomination for the District 11 seat in the legislature. After she defeated Garrett, Mrs.

Margaret Richardson Dixon (1908 - June 22, 1970) was perhaps the most influential woman journalist of 20th Century Louisiana. She was the managing editor of her state's capital city newspaper, the "Baton Rouge Morning Advocate", from 1949 until her death some two decades later. She was also an active Democrat who championed prison reform, assistance to the mentally ill, and organized labor.

Randy Camacho is an American Democratic politician. He was a candidate for the Arizona second congressional district seat against Republican Trent Franks twice. His 2004 candidacy was endorsed by the Arizona Republic, organized labor, and many other political and civic organizations. He was born and raised in Arizona, and spent much of his childhood as a farm worker. He is currently a high school history teacher in Avondale, Arizona.

Jim Nance McCord (March 17, 1879 - September 2, 1968) was Governor of Tennessee from 1945 to 1949. A Tennessee native, he was the long-term editor of the "Marshall County Gazette" and served thirteen terms as the mayor of the Marshall County seat of Lewisburg. In 1942 he ran for the United States House of Representatives and won. Less of a supporter of E. H. Crump, the Memphis political boss, than his predecessor, Governor Prentice Cooper, …

William Morris ("Willie") Bioff (1900-November 4, 1955) was an American organized crime figure who operated as a labor leader in the movie production business from the 1920s through the 1940s. During this time, Bioff extorted millions of dollars from movie studios with the threat of mass union work stoppages.

Will H. Daly (1869 - 1924) was a Portland, Oregon labor leader, progressive politician and businessman. He was the first person to head both the Oregon State Federation of Labor and the Central Labor Council of Portland. He was also the first labor leader to serve on the Portland City Council, but was unsuccessful in a mayoral bid, largely due to a vigorous campaign by "The Oregonian," the city's largest newspaper, to discredit him.