Stephen Wishart

Stephen is the campaigns hub director and the supply chains cross-regional programs and learning coordinator at the Solidarity Center, AFL-CIO, where he focuses on creating and strengthening strategic and impactful approaches, programs, and campaigns with cross-regional coordination and collaboration. Stephen was previously the Solidarity Center’s Central America program director (2009-2021) where he developed and led trade union capacity-building programs across five Central American countries on organizing, collective bargaining, public policy and advocacy, women’s leadership and empowerment, marginalized workers’ rights, trade complaints and international complaint mechanisms, and combating anti-union violence. He serves on the Committee on Workers’ Capital’s (CWC) Global Labor Rights Campaigns Hub Advisory Committee and on the board of directors of the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium. Prior to joining the Solidarity Center, Stephen was a strategic campaigner and coordinating director of the Manufacturing, Distribution & Retail Division at the unions UNITE and UNITE HERE, and a strategic campaigner for the United Steelworkers of America (USW).