Mike Fishman and George Gresham

Mike Fishman, President of Local 32BJ Service Employees International Union, leads the largest property services union in the country. Local 32BJ represents more than 100,000 property service workers – window cleaners, superintendents, doormen, maintenance workers, cleaners, porters and security officers – in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Fishman is widely credited with revitalizing the local and is dedicated to keeping it responsive to members' needs. Under his leadership, the union has launched a massive organizing drive, adding 10,000 new members and providing the membership with greater strength at the bargaining table and in political and community life.

George Gresham, President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, leads the largest Local union in the world, representing more than 300,000 healthcare members and retirees in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia and Massachusetts. Mr. Gresham also serves as a Vice President of the Executive Board of Service Employees Internal Union (SEIU) with 2 million working members in locals throughout the nation, and co-chairs the 1199SEIU National Benefit Fund, the largest self-insured union healthcare plan in the nation, the 1199SEIU Training and Upgrading Fund, which has employer contributions and grant funding of over $150 million per year, the 1199/Employer Child Care Fund, which covers over 50,000 children of members, and the 1199SEIU Pension Fund, which has nearly $8 billion in assets.