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Dan La Botz
Daniel H. La Botz (born August 9, 1945) is a prominent American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author. He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico. He is a member of the socialist organization Solidarity, which describes itself as "a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization,"〔(Solidarity | A democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization ) official Web site.〕 which comes out of the Trotskyist tradition. La Botz ran in 2010 for a seat in the United States Senate for the Socialist Party.
== Early Life and career ==
La Botz was born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up outside San Diego, California.〔 He attended Southwestern College and San Diego State University. When he was in college, he opposed the American involvement in the Vietnam war and supported the United Farm Workers. He is a leader of the socialist organization Solidarity,〔
"Dan La Botz was a founding member of (Teamsters for a Democratic Union ) and is the author of ''(Rank and File Rebellion: Teamsters for a Democratic Union )'' (Verso). He edits the biweekly ''Mexican Labor News and Analysis'' and is a member of (SOLIDARITY )."
〕 which describes itself as "a democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization"〔("Solidarity: A democratic, revolutionary socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization" ) official Web site.〕 and which comes out of the Trotskyist tradition. In the 1970s, La Botz worked various jobs in Chicago before working as a truck driver.〔 Within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), he was a co-founder of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU),〔 a reform caucus associated with Solidarity. TDU began in 1975 when a small group of freight Teamsters, some from the International Socialists group in Berkeley, CA met in Chicago, Illinois and founded Teamsters for a Decent Contract (TDC).
He subsequently worked as a community and union organizer and later a journalist.〔 La Botz worked in the 1980s as a journalist in Chicago and Mexico City and as an author on topics of workers' struggles and unions in the United States and Mexico. He earned a PhD in American history at the University of Cincinnati in 1998. He later became Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the Miami University, the University of Cincinnati and the Northern Kentucky University.〔 La Botz is an editor of ''Mexican Labor News and Analysis'' (MLNA).〔 In May 2010, La Botz was working as a Spanish teacher at Waldorf elementary school in Cincinnati.〔
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