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David Newby
President
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
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David Newby
Business Phone: 414/771-0700
Executive Committee
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David Newby is President of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, a federation of
over 1000 local unions which collectively represent some 250,000 workers in
Wisconsin united to achieve economic justice in the workplace and social
justice in our communities.
The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO has become a recognized national leader in the areas of political action, innovative workforce training and economic development, legislative initiatives on behalf of working families, and aggressive representation of the interests of all working people. For the past six years Newby has led the Federation's initiative to ensure that everyone in Wisconsin has comprehensive, affordable, quality health care. In 2003 the Wisconsin AFL-CIO created the Wisconsin Health Care Partnership Plan, a path-breaking, innovative health care proposal which was startling in clarity and unique in design. That development intensified the debate in Wisconsin on how to solve our health care crisis. In 2007, the Wisconsin Health Care Partnership Plan was combined with other universal health care proposals to form "Healthy Wisconsin: Your Choice, Your Plan", a health care plan providing health care for all that has gained national attention as a model for reform of our health care system. [Healthy Wisconsin has drawn a vitriolic editorial in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that this plan does indeed have us on the right track in Wisconsin.] |
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Before being elected President in 1994, Newby served eight years as Secretary-Treasurer and Legislative Director of the State AFL-CIO, where he led its legislative campaigns for Family and Medical Leave, improved health and safety in the workplace, plant closing notification, expanded access to health care, and increases in the Minimum Wage. Newby served as the elected Chair of the Midwest AFL-CIO State Federations, and as their representative to the National AFL-CIO Executive Council, 2000-2006.
A teacher by trade, whose first
union position was Steward in the UW-Madison History Department for the Teaching
Assistants Association, American Federation of Teachers Local #3220, Newby has
degrees from the College of Wooster (Ohio), the University of Chicago, and the
UW-Madison. Before serving the labor movement full time (first as President of
what is now the South Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO), he taught history
at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, worked as a Teaching and Project Assistant
at the UW-Madison, and was active in the civil rights and anti-war movements of
the 1960s and '70s. |
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