Gregory Junemann
Gregory Junemann was appointed president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) in March, 2001. Before assuming this post, Mr. Junemann was Secretary-Treasurer/Director of Organizing for IFPTE for three terms. Under his direction and leadership, the union organized and/or affiliated twenty-three new local unions, representing an increase in membership of 71% since 1994. Mr. Junemann wrote "Extend the Invitation," a training manual for internal organizing. In October 1999, Mr. Junemann was appointed Vice President of the Department for Professional Employees (DPE), AFL-CIO. He is also a member of DPE's Curriculum Committee, that together with staff of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies, developed the "Basic Course on Organizing Professional, Technical and Other Highly Skilled White Collar Workers." The Curriculum Committee and the Meany Center are currently putting the finishing touches on a program for lead organizers and policy makers concerned with the recruitment of professional workers.
Prior to his election as Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Junemann served IFPTE as the Midwest Area Vice President (1986-1994) and Finance Committee Chairman (1988-1994). On the Local union level, Mr. Junemann served IFPTE Local 92 in Milwaukee in many capacities including President, Vice President and Bargaining Committee Chairperson.
Lynn Karoly
Lynn Karoly has been Senior Economist at RAND Corporation since 1995. She is also on the faculty of the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies. Previously Dr. Karoly served as Director of RAND's Labor and Population Program and RAND's Population Research Center; and was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution Economic Studies Program. Dr. has written extensively, including The 21st Century at Work: Forces Shaping the Future Workforce and Workplace in the United States (co-authored with Contantijn W.A. Paris, RAND Corporation, 2004). Dr. Karoly holds a Ph.D., M.A. and M.Phil. in Economics from Yale University.
Eugenia Kemble
Eugenia Kemble is Executive Director of the Albert Shanker Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering candid exchange on education, labor and democracy issues. Beginning as a reporter on the newspaper of the AFT's New York City local, The United Federation of Teachers, she moved from its staff of to a position as special assistant to Albert Shanker when he was elected to head the American Federation of Teachers in 1974.
In 1983 Ms. Kemble became the AFL-CIO's representative with the Democracy Program, a coalition effort including the Democratic Party, Republican Party, U.S. Chambers of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, that recommended the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The coalition worked to explain the NED idea as its funding was guided through Congress.
In 1984 Ms. Kemble was named the Executive Director of the AFL-CIO's Free Trade Union Institute, which supported unions struggling for democracy around the world, most notably Solidarity in Poland. Returning to the AFT in 1989, she directed and helped to expand the AFT's Education Issues Department as Mr. Shanker's Special Assistant for Educational Issues. In 1998-99 she organized the start-up of the Albert Shanker Institute.
Stephanie Powers
Stephanie Powers is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB), the national membership organization for local and State workforce investment boards that provide the leadership and governance for the publicly-funded workforce development system under the United States Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Prior to joining NAWB, Ms. Powers was Director of Workforce Development Strategies and Consulting for Resource Consultants, Inc., a professional services firm having operations and consulting contracts with local workforce investment boards in various parts of the country.
In 1998, Ms. Powers was appointed by the Clinton Administration to become the National School-to-Work Director. From 1993–98, she served as Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) Assistant Secretary Timothy Barnicle, and was Special Assistant to ETA Assistant Secretary Doug Ross. During this time, she also held the position of Director of Communication and Public Affairs for the government agency.
Saul Rubinstein
Dr. Saul Rubinstein is Associate Professor at the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations. His Associate Director since 1998 of the Center for Workplace Transformation, School of Management and Labor Relations. He is a member of the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) since 1990 and a winner of the 2001 IRRA Young Scholar Award. Dr. Rubinstein's research is focused on industrial relations, and he has followed the Saturn experiment and its concept of labor-management relations, management, and organizational governance, since its inception in 1983. He has published numerous articles, and is co-author with Thomas Kochan of the book, Learning From Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations.