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Please help improve this article by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page. (July 2010) This article may not meet the notability guideline for biographies. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (July 2010) Richard Bensinger is an author, American labor activist, and labor consultant who emphasizes the need for labor unions to focus their efforts on organizing instead of politicking. He was the first executive director of the AFL-CIO Organizing and Field Services Department.[1] Life and career After graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Bensinger began his involvement with labor as a factory worker and organizer for the textile industry. After serving as the regional director of the Clothing Workers Union, he went to Washington, D.C. in 1989, to become the first person to hold the position of National Organizing Director for the AFL-CIO.[2] While there, Bensinger emphasized the need for unions to rebuild their shrinking base of popular support, and encouraged locals to put more money in organizing efforts. “Two years ago only 15 local unions out of the thousands in this country had moved 20% of their budgets into organizing. … Today 150 have,” Fortune magazine reported him as saying shortly before being fired from the AFL-CIO position in 1998.[3] After questioning the labor union’s priorities, then-president of the AFL-CIO John Sweeney had Bensinger removed from his position, replacing him with an SEIU career staffer in a move that caused local leaders to question Sweeney’s commitment to the future of organizing.[4] Bensinger now spends his time consulting for international unions on organizing strategies in the U.S. and Canada , and educating corporations and businesses on the ethics in labor relations. He is also the author of Reaching Higher, a guidebook on best organizing practices for non-unionized employees hoping to form a union.[2] In 2002, Bensinger co-founded the Institute for Employee Choice with Dick Schubert, a former president of Bethlehem Steel. During the political fight over the Employee Free Choice Act, or “card check” legislation, Bensinger and Schubert suggested a third way that relied not on laws passed by the U.S. Congress but on a voluntary code of conduct that would be upheld by both organizers and management. The “Golden Rule” in this code was “Unions and employers need to behave as they would like the other to behave.” [5] References ^ Whitford, David. "Labor's Lost Chance AFL-CIO President John Sweeney had Big Labor on the move for the first time in a generation. Then he fired his top organizer. Oops." CNN Money. Sept. 28,1998. ^ a b http://outrageconference.com/wp-content/uploads/speakers3-20.pdf ^ http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248748/index.htm ^ http://www.thenation.com/article/checking-union-labels?page=0,1 ^ http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/19/news/economy/whitford_cardcheck.fortune/index.htm External links Institute for Employee Choice This article has not been added to any categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. (September 2010)