Labor On The Move: Hauser in at AFL-CIO; Danaher Moves to TWU
Monday, January 13, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Eric
Hauser Named Strategic Advisor and Director of Communications for
AFL-CIO: Eric Hauser (right),
founder and president of the Hauser Group, will join the AFL-CIO as Strategic
Advisor and Director of Communications. He will assume a role currently held by
Denise Mitchell, who has served as Assistant to the President for Public
Affairs for 18 years. Mitchell will retire from the AFL-CIO at the end of
February."Eric has used communications to champion working people from the
grassroots to the presidential campaign level," said AFL-CIO
President Richard Trumka, "and we are excited to welcome him to our team.”
The Hauser Group worked with clients including the Center for Community Change,
National Council of La Raza, Campaign for America’s Future, and the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities. Hauser was formerly Director of Communications
for Bill Bradley’spresidential campaign, an Adjunct Professor of Journalism
at
the University of Maryland, a guest lecturer, a newspaper columnist and a
correspondent for Pacifica Radio.
Danaher Moves to
TWU: After six years at
Transportation Trades, Brendan Danaher (left) is moving to the Transport
Workers Union, where he’ll be overseeing their legislative and regulatory
activities. Reach him at 202-719-3870 orbdanaher@twu.org.
If you need to talk to someone at Transportation Trades about legislative
issues, contact Larry Willis at 202-628-9262 or larryw@ttd.org. For
political matters, contact Kelly Misselwitz at202-628-9262 or KellyM@ttd.org.