Highlights
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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)
Government Posts/Panels/Commissions
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)
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