Thomas Donahue
last updated: November 19, 2003
- Shanker Institute: Board of Directors
National Endowment for Democracy: Board of Directors
AFL-CIO: Union organizer
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Highlights & Quotes Donahue, a longtime union organizer, has been closely associated with the anti-communist right wing of U.S. organized labor. In 1995, after then-AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland was pushed out by other union leaders after 16 years at the helm, he chose Donahue as his successor. Eager for a change at the top, union members elected John Sweeney instead.(7)
Donahue is married to Rachelle Horowitz, a leader of the conservative faction of the Socialist Party that splintered off in the early 1970s, eventually becoming Social Democrats USA. (8)
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- Institutional Affiliations
- Shanker Institute: Member, Board of Directors (1)
- National Endowment for Democracy: Member, Board of Directors (1)
- Council on Foreign Relations: Member, Board of Directors (1)
- Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy: Member, Board of Directors (1)
- Muscular Dystrophy Association: Vice President (1)
- National Academy of Public Administration: Fellow (1)
- National Policy Association: Member, Board of Trustees (2)
- Hassan Fathy Institute's Trade Union Mobilization Task Force: Chairman (4)
- Manhattan College: Member Board of Trustees (4)
- American Arbitration Association: Board Member (4)
- National Planning Association: Board Member (4)
- Kennedy Center: Member, Community Board (4)
- American Committee for Peace in Chechnya: Member (3)
- AFL-CIO: President, 1995 (1)
- AFL-CIO: Secretary-Treasurer, 1979-1995 (1)
- AFL-CIO: Executive Assistant to then-President George Meany, 1973-1979 (1)
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU): Executive Secretary and served as the first Vice President, 1969-1973 (1)
- Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation: Member (4)
- Hudson Institute: Member, Board of Trustees (6)
- Free Trade Union Institute: Board Member (6)
- State Department’s Advisory Committee on Labor Diplomacy: Chairman (1), (4)
- President’s Committee on Sustainable Development: Member (4)
- Task Force on Sustainable Communities: Co-Chair (4)
- U.S. Trade Representative’s Labor Advisory Committee: Chairman, 1989-1995 (4)
- U.S. Department of Labor: Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Relations, 1967-1969 (1) Corporate Connections/Business Interests
- International Construction Institute's Committee on Pension Education Research and Technical Assistance: Chairman (4)
Government Posts/Panels/Commissions
The Right Web Mission
Right Web tracks militarists’ efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy.
Sources
(1) Albert Shanker Institute Board of Directorshttp://www.shankerinstitute.org/shankerboard.html
(2) National Policy Association – Board of Trustees
http://www.npa1.org/aid/board.asp
(3) American Committee for Peace in Chechnya
http://www.peaceinchechnya.org/about_members.htm
(4) NED Board of Directors
http://www.ned.org/about/board_bios/donahue.html
(5) GroupWatch: Free Trade Union Institute
http://www.irc-online.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-56.htm
(6) “Associations & Institutes: Work in America Institute, Inc.,” Martin P. Catherwood Library
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/keyWorkplaceDocuments/associationsAndInstitutes/workinamerica/default.html
(7) “Lane Kirkland, Former AFL-CIO Head, Dies at 77,” The New York Times, August 15, 1999
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/071.html
(8) Group Watch: Social Democrats USA
http://www.irc-online.org/research/Group_Watch/Entries-118.htm