Jack Sheinkman
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| Born | 6 December 1926 |
| Died | 29 January 2004 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University, Oxford University |
US Labor leader, Bilderberg/Steering committee, Quill and Dagger | |
Jacob "Jack" Sheinkman was a member of the Bilderberg Steering committee and president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
Background
Jacob Sheinkman was born in the Bronx on Dec. 6, 1926, the son of immigrants from Kiev in 1923. Family members said Jacob Sheinkman's interest in labor dated from his childhood involvement in the Workmen's Circle, a social democratic organization founded by Jewish immigrants. He went to Evander Childs High School in the Bronx and served in the Navy during World War II, rising to lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.
Career
He received a bachelor's degree from the Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations in 1948, and four years later earned a degree from Cornell's law school, where he joined Quill and Dagger Society. He also received a certificate in economics from Oxford University.
During the height of the Cold War battle for control of the trade unions his labor career began, as an organizer for the International Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers. In 1953, he began working for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and from 1958 to 1972 was its general counsel. He was the union's secretary-treasurer from 1972 to 1976.
As the ranks of the nation's clothing unions shrank, Sheinkman led merger efforts to help the unions maintain their strength and finances. The merger of his union with the Textile Workers Union in 1975 formed the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. He was its secretary-treasurer from 1976 to 1987.
Sheinkman was president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union from 1987 to 1995. He developed a reputation as one of organized labor's leading internationalists, heading labor's efforts to help impoverished workers and embattled trade union leaders in Central America. then From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Sheinkman was chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal advocacy group. He was a member of Cornell's board of trustees and of the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the President's Advisory Committee on Trade.[1]