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In 1999, Mike Gildea joined the DPE as its legislative director and later as Executive Director. Mike has been masterful at focusing the department’s programs on the white collar workforce and making sure the AFL-CIO was on the same page. He is the resident expert at both the department and the AFL-CIO on H-1B, L-1 and other guest worker programs along with most immigration matters that deal with white collar workers. Mike also knows the ins and the outs of the FCC and their many rules and how this Administration has attempted to change them. These rules not only affect members within several of the DPE unions but more importantly all of us as consumers of news. These are just a few of his many strong points. Mike’s last day with DPE was August 18th. We will greatly miss his 38 years of labor experience and history. But mostly we’ll miss the daily friendship and leadership that he brought to the office everyday. This will end the 80 years reign of Gildeas in the labor movement—that’s how long Mike and his father logged in on behalf of working families. Mike and his lovely wife Peggy (recently retired from the National Labor College) have relocated to North Carolina. In lieu of gifts Mike and Peggy request that donations be made to the: Mike and Peggy Gildea
Scholarship DPE is fortunate to have David Cohen on staff. David has replaced Mike as DPE’s Executive Director.
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