About Us

Poster BoardWorkers Interfaith Network unites religious leaders, labor leaders, and workers to address economic disparities by demanding improved wages, benefits, and working conditions assuring that our community’s economic abundance is shared by all.

Workers Interfaith Network Believes:
~ Everyone has dignity in God’s eyes.
~ Everyone deserves respect and fair treatment in the workplace.
~ We live amidst economic abundance
~ All workers should share in that abundance
~ Our economic life binds us together in community
~ Everyone should share responsibility for and power to shape our economic life
~ When we work for the good of one, we work for the good of all

Staff Board of Directors

Staff

Matt Gladue, Executive Director

Veronica Mendez, Worker Center Organizer

Teresa Ortiz, Worker Center Organizer

Danielle Pryor, Worker Center Organizer

Brian Payne, Worker Center Organizer

Mark Bergen, Apprentice Congregational Organizer

Caitlin Schwartz, Apprentice Congregational Organizer

Officers
-Mr. Doug Mork, Organizing Director, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 789, Co-Chair
-Ms. Marcy Shapiro, Jewish Community Action, Co-Chair
-Mr. Dan McGowan, Organizer, Laborers District Council, Treasurer
Directors:
-Rev. Nancy Anderson, Pastor, United Church of Christ
-Mr. Todd Erickson, Organizer, Communication Workers of America Local 7200
-Mr. Martin Goff, Organizing Director, UNITE-HERE Local 17
-Sr. Betty Kenny, Sisters Online
-Ms. Kate Kline, Minnesota Nurses Association
-Ms. Shar Knutson, St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly
-Mr. Michael Kuchta, North Central States Regional Council of Carpenters
-Mr. Trevor Lawrence, Organizer, Teamsters Joint Council 32
-Mr. Eric Lehto, Organizing Director, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Council 5
-Ms. Candace Lund, Minnesota AFL-CIO
-Mr. Bill McCarthy, President, Minneapolis Central Labor Union Council
-Mr. Adam Robinson, Public Policy Organizer, Catholic Charities Office for Social Justice
-Rev. Jose Santiago, Pastor, Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Minneapolis
-Rev. Becky Sechrist, Associate Pastor, Good Samaritan UMC
-Rev. David Stewart, Pastor, Dayton Avenue Presbyterian Church
-Rev. David Wangaard, Bishops Assistant, Minneapolis Area Lutheran Synod
-Sr. Mary White, Women Religious for Justice