Bruce Raynor has had a 38-year career as one of the most respected labor leaders in America. He served as President of the garment workers union UNITE, and UNITE HERE, the merger between the national garment union and the hotel and casino union. He served as the Vice President of the AFL-CIO and was a founding member of Change To Win, a separate labor federation of some 6,000,000 workers.

Raynor has been nationally recognized for his negotiating and organizing work throughout his career, usually with particular emphasis on the 20 years he headed his union’s highly successful Southern organizing programs. He forged mutually productive partnerships between large corporations and his union in the retail, clothing, textile industrial laundry, and hotel and food service industries.

Bruce’s final labor union position, after his union merged with SEIU in 2009, was as President of Workers United and Executive Vice President of SEIU. He is currently President Emeritus of Workers United, SEIU.

Bruce Raynor graduated from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1972. As a member of The Cornell University Board of Trustees since 1988, he is one of its longest serving trustees.