ROI Influencers: Unions 2024: Top 10 — No. 6 William Sproule
William Sproule
Executive secretary-treasurer
Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters
Key leader of incredibly influential and impactful union — one that always is looking forward. It recently graduated class of workers trained in underwater construction, welding...
ROI Influencers: Unions 2024: Top 10 — No. 2 Charles Wowkanech
Charles Wowkanech
President
N.J. State AFL-CIO
Recently reelected to new four-year term of an organization that unites the voices of more than 1 million union members across the state in pursuit of social and economic justice for...
ROI Influencers: Unions 2024: Top 10 — No. 4 Bill Mullen
Bill Mullen
President
N.J. Building and Construction Trades Council
One of the most important labor leaders in the state. He oversees 15 unions and more than 150,000 members.
ROI Influencers: Unions 2024 — Top 10
Approximately one in six workers in the state is a member of a union — making New Jersey the sixth most unionized state in the country.
The number is going up, too.
The percentage of union...
ROI Influencers: Unions 2024: Top 10 — No. 5 Debbie White
Debbie White
President
Health Professionals and Allied Employees
At the forefront of the battle to improve working conditions for nurses — including suggestions of striking.
ROI Influencers: Unions 2024: Top 10 — No. 9 Fran Ehret
Fran Ehret
N.J. state director
Communication Workers of America
Showed strength when CWA came out in strong opposition to legislation overhaul to the Open Public Records Act.
ROI Influencers: Unions 2024: Top 10 — No. 8 John Niccollai
John Niccollai
President
United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 464A
The president for more than four decades, he has led Local 464A to remarkable growth while delivering outstanding contracts, placing it among the premier local unions...
ROI Influencers: Unions 2024: Top 10 — No. 1 Greg Lalevee
Greg Lalevee
Business manager
International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 825
Greg Lalevee is proud of all the things the approximately 7,800 members of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 825 have worked on in the...
ROI Influencers: Unions 2024: Top 10 — No. 3 Donald Norcross
Donald Norcross
U.S. Representative
D-1st Dist.
Strongest union leader in Congress (he previously was part of leadership of IBEW Local 351 and president of Southern N.J. AFL-CIO Central Labor Council), he remains the definitive voice for labor...