Biography

David Alexander is Adjunct Professor at the University of Oregon's Labor Education and Research Center and has been involved in worker's education for over 35 years. For the past fifteen years, he has been primarily responsible for working with North America's Building Trades Unions, AFL-CIO, in the design and coordination of courses in their curriculum and is the lead faculty person on the Contract Negotiations in the Construction Industry class.

Prior to 2000, David spent twenty years as a full-time staff member at the George Meany Center for Labor Studies and served as adjunct professor at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has worked with a number of international unions on a variety of educational programs.