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Andrew L. "Andy" Stern (born November 22, 1950), is the former president〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andy Stern, SEIU International President )〕 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).〔 U.S. Department of Labor 〕 Stern is currently a senior fellow at Columbia University.〔http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/news/item/7224682/Andy+Stern+Named+Senior+Fellow+for+Richman+Center〕 Stern supports federal legislation to create universal health care, expansion of union ranks via the Employee Free Choice Act, more regulations on business, profit sharing for employees and higher taxes. Stern has been described by CBS News as the "most important labor boss in America." Stern is unapologetic about targeting private equity firms, shaming business leaders, and competing to build SEIU's membership: “We like to say: We use the power of persuasion first. If it doesn't work, we try the persuasion of power”. The share of workers belonging to a union in 2008 showed the largest annual growth rate since the first report in 1983.〔 〕 Growth in SEIU in 2008—88,926 members—accounted for nearly 21 percent of the national union membership growth. In March, 2010, Stern was the Alice B. Grant Labor Leader in Residence at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. ==Early life and career== He grew up Jewish in West Orange, New Jersey, where his father was a lawyer. Stern was a student leftist in the 1960s. He began college as a business major at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business but ultimately graduated in 1971 with a B.A. in education and urban planning.〔 〕〔()〕 Stern began his career as a welfare case officer and member of the SEIU in 1973, eventually being elected president of his Pennsylvania local.〔 In 1980, he was elected to the union's executive board, and in 1984 the union's then-president John Sweeney put him in charge of its organizing efforts. Stern is a backer of the Employee Free Choice Act. In 1996, Stern was elected to the presidency of the union. After launching a national debate aimed at uniting the 9 out of 10 American workers who have no organization at work, SEIU, along with the Teamsters, announced on July 25, 2005 that they were disaffiliating from the AFL-CIO.〔 〕 Stern led SEIU out of the AFL-CIO and founded Change to Win, a six-million-member federation of seven major unions "dedicated to giving workers a voice at their jobs". Stern is now a senior fellow at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andy Stern」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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