Stuart Harris Appelbaum (born 1953) is an American trade union leader. Appelbaum has been the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) since May 1, 1998. He is also president of the Jewish Labor Committee.[1] In February 2022, he was elected board of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S. government-funded non-profit.[2]
Appelbaum spent his childhood in Hartford, Connecticut. As a youth, he was raised in a Conservative synagogue and was president of his United Synagogue Youth chapter. He attended Camp Ramah.[1] He graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University and received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. On September 1, 2019, he married MUFG Bank business analyst Michihito Osawa in Battery Park, New York City. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy took part in the ceremony.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b Lapin, Andrew (April 9, 2021). "Meet the longtime Jewish labor activist going up against Amazon in Alabama". www.timesofisrael.com.
- ^ "Labor Activist Stuart Appelbaum Elected to NED Board of Directors". NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY. 17 February 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.
- ^ "Michihito Osawa, Stuart Appelbaum". The New York Times. 1 September 2019.
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