Honoring the people who move this movement.
Read bio
Carl Green has dedicated his career to building worker power and strengthening the labor movement. He began as a union member at the Maxwell House Coffee plant in Houston, Texas, where he became a shop steward and stood up for his coworkers on the shop floor.
His commitment to organizing led him to UFCW International, where he worked as a full-time organizer, helped lead the historic Smithfield campaign in North Carolina, and later served as president of the local union representing those workers. He went on to direct major organizing campaigns across the country, including UFCW’s national Walmart campaign, while mentoring organizers and helping create opportunities for working families.
After decades of leadership, Carl came to Local 880, serving as Secretary-Treasurer before becoming President in early 2026. He brings experience, integrity, humility, and a lifelong commitment to the members he serves.
Read bio
Lance E. Heasley serves as President of the International Chemical Workers Union Council (ICWUC), a division of the UFCW, and as a UFCW International Vice President. He has dedicated his career to strengthening worker representation, organizing new bargaining units, developing union leaders, and advancing the rights of working families across North America.
Beginning as an ICWUC organizer in 2015, Lance quickly built a reputation as an effective advocate for workers. Under his leadership the ICWUC has won the vast majority of its NLRB elections and expanded representation for hundreds of workers in the chemical, energy, manufacturing, and industrial sectors. He was elected a UFCW International Vice President in 2022.
As President, he has focused on modernizing the organization, improving accountability, and increasing support for local unions. He has championed diversity and inclusion by ensuring active ICWUC participation in the UFCW constituency groups, including the Minority Coalition, OUTreach, United Latinos, and the Women’s Network. He also serves on the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council and represents the UFCW within IndustriALL Global Union.
Lance has been married to Wetzel County, West Virginia Commissioner Lisa Heasley since 2005. Together they have three children and seven grandchildren.
Read bio
Jack Caffey is President of Local 1102, RWDSU/UFCW, which represents thousands of workers employed in retail, food preparation, airline catering, and service industries. Under his leadership, Local 1102 has grown substantially and built a reputation for organizing, strong contracts, and aggressive representation of its members.
Jack began his career in 1992 as a member of the Seafarers International Union, working aboard merchant ships, and became a union official in 1994. He spent sixteen years at Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW — as Organizer, Union Representative, Field Director, and ultimately Executive Vice President — leading organizing campaigns and contract fights. In 2017 the National RWDSU named him National Field Director, and he was elected President of Local 1102 in April 2025.
He serves as an elected Vice President of the National RWDSU, on the International UFCW Advisory Board, and as a Vice President of the Long Island Federation of Labor. Beyond the labor movement, Jack has long supported veterans’ causes through Hope for the Warriors and Send-A-Vet. He and his wife, Patti, are proud parents and grandparents.
Read bio
Barry Sawyer has served as National President of UFCW Canada since being elected by the National Council in 2025. His union activism began in his teenage years, when he was appointed shop steward at a UFCW-represented grocery store in his hometown of Orangeville, Ontario.
From those early years to the present day, Barry has been a passionate advocate for workers’ rights, serving UFCW Canada members in nearly every capacity over his distinguished career — chief steward, picket captain, bargaining committee member, and executive board member, before working as special project union representative, union representative, regional director, and executive assistant to past UFCW Canada National Presidents.
Over the course of three decades, Barry has remained a steadfast and tireless advocate for UFCW members. He is also an enthusiastic organizer of community events and sports tournaments that raise money for several charities, including the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
Read bio
Sonja Campbell began her career in a food processing plant as a single mother supporting her son. She became chief steward there 35 years ago, served on the safety committee, helped shape drug and alcohol testing policy, and read every contract she could get her hands on.
In January 2008 she was elected president of her 1,500-member Local — the first woman and the first Black woman to hold the office. She located and arranged the purchase of a new union hall with offices, giving members a place of their own for membership meetings, grievances, and arbitrations.
As chief negotiator she won significant wage increases and safety improvements, evaluated production jobs to secure higher rates beyond what the contract required, and organized a cold storage warehouse into the Local. During COVID she negotiated a dollar-an-hour increase for essential workers. She won more than twenty arbitrations and educated legal representatives employed by the union.
Throughout her career Sonja has been a mentor to the membership — present in the plants, in open communication with members, and unafraid to push for higher wages and better working conditions.
Read bio
Deloris Fitzgerald Crews is a retired principal and turnaround specialist of Danville Public Schools in Danville, Virginia, where she served 33 years as a teacher, administrator, and turnaround specialist. She holds an Associate’s Degree in Pre-Education from Danville Community College, a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Averett University, and a Master’s of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Virginia, where she was later credentialed in Turnaround Leadership.
She serves on the Advisory Board for Sickle Cell Anemia Disease and the Advisory Board for the Salvation Army. A lifetime member of the NAACP and of the Virginia and National Education Associations, she also belongs to the Danville Retired Teachers Association, the Dan Valley Chapter of American Business Women, and Delta Kappa Gamma. At Fairview Baptist Church in Gretna, Virginia, she is a deaconess and missionary, chairs the scholarship committee, and coordinates vacation bible school.
Her honors include appointment by former Governor Mark Warner as one of ten Turnaround Principals in Virginia, the Rosa Parks Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Council, Outstanding Principal of the Year, and a 2024 Trailblazer in the Community Award from the Ballou Senior Center. She was also Averett University’s first African-American exchange teacher to teach in Derby, England.
Deloris currently serves as a part-time Recreation Program Supervisor for Danville Parks and Recreation, sponsoring trips to keep “Seniors on the Move.” She is married to Donald W. Crews; they have two children, Deidra and Derrick, and two grandchildren, Charlotte and Elijah.
Read bio
Daryl Avery is an accomplished attorney with over 35 years of practice, specializing in business law, tax-exempt organizations, administrative law, litigation, government affairs, trusts and estates, and real estate development. He has advised clients ranging from start-ups to major corporations on organizational structure and governance, business strategy, financing, contracts, software patents, and regulatory compliance.
A former local prosecutor and former general counsel to the District of Columbia Public Service Commission, he has appeared or drafted testimony before the U.S. Congress, the courts, and federal, state, and local bodies including the FCC, FERC, and the IRS. He previously lectured on administrative law for the D.C. Bar’s mandatory course for newly admitted attorneys, and has taught law students and practicing attorneys on business law and appellate advocacy.
Daryl earned his Juris Doctor from the Howard University School of Law and his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the Howard University School of Business. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar, and the National Bar Association, and serves on the boards of several community-based organizations. He has mentored many young people on career, business, and life matters.
His legal career and community involvement reflect his belief that we have a responsibility to make a positive difference in the lives of those less fortunate. As he puts it: “We exist temporarily through what we have, but we live forever through what we give.”