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Jason Rosin

Stevens Point,WI

Summary

I'm Ready To Go To Work. Career Break - - Disability 12/18-Present. I stumbled upon the "flesh-eating" bacteria around December 21, 2018. By the 22nd, I was hospitalized, and surgeries began. 42 days in the ICU. Hospitalized at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJC) in St. Louis for Fournier's Gangrene. Please don't just look at the first picture. My Fournier's was different and much worse! Further hospitalized. Sent home. Then the hard part started. In a bed for months. I needed to learn to stand and then walk again. The gigantic hole took more than a year close. It took a village of loved ones, people who became members of my team, and people I met only once, who stepped up and stepped in and saved my life.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Labor Representative

NNOC (National Nurses Organizing Committee)
St. Louis , MO
2018.01 - 2018.12
  • Implemented policy and program by leading RNs in a progressive union environment
  • Working alone in St; Louis, I was responsible for both representing my RN unit as well as organizing others
  • I worked for the strongest union women I've ever met
  • My Regional Director, and Regional Lead were licensed RNs (come from the craft)
  • They taught me a higher level of setting standards for fighting the boss, escalation of our fights, and how we use these tools in place of grievances to affect real change
  • I learned complex new tracking and reporting for regional leaders and Executive Board
  • I got sick in my 12th month of employment.

Business Agent/Executive/Political/Organizing/Training/Safety Director

IATSE Local 491, Studio Mechanics of the Carolinas and Savannah
Savannah , GA
2006.01 - 2017.12
  • Key Man" at Motion Picture and TV Local Union representing 17 industry crafts and 74 job classifications
  • Set the Local's political and legislative agenda across three states
  • Key coalition member who passed film incentive legislation in North Carolina, South Carolina and assisted in Georgia
  • Increased the Local's membership from 425 members on 1/06 to consistently over 900 and at times, with visiting crew, managed a Local with over 1000 crew working in the jurisdiction
  • Organized hundreds of low-budget films and commercials throughout our three-state area
  • Filed and won grievances for crew
  • In 2017 alone, won over $201,000 in cash grievances paid to workers
  • Developed and implemented new craft training opportunities for members
  • Envisioned and implemented the beginnings of the Local's Safety Training Program
  • Actively participated in 3-year cycles of National Contract Negotiations since 2006
  • Grew the Local 491 team from 2 full-time staff to 5 full-time employees and a Safety Training Coordinator
  • Created a collaborative identity by implementing staff and Executive Board training and growth program to create opportunities help to enrich Board member careers and further their careers of staff
  • Emphasized employee engagement, and recognition to inspire the team to effectively collaborate and perform at a high level
  • Established a culture of trust through weekly 1-on-1 relationship building meetings and creating a safe growth orientated environment among the full team
  • Served on the NC Governor's Film Advisory Board, advising the NC Governor on Film, TV and other related issues
  • Elected Central Labor Council President twice
  • 3 times elected Vice President to the North Carolina State AFL-CIO Executive Council
  • From 2008 to 2014, served as AFL-CIO Election Zone Coordinator for Southeastern NC
  • In 2016 consulted to the AFL-CIO election program and implemented an additional outreach program with local community partners, including Ministers in the African American Community
  • Moving people to the polls in early voting and culminating with a paid community "ride to the polls" program on election day
  • Hanover County won the 2016 Governor's race
  • Built, spearheaded, and then shepherded, dynamic coalitions in each major film market the Local serves, across three states, including choosing and directing lobbyists, as well as personally lobbying in North (registered) and South Carolina
  • Recognized as an essential voice on all things Film, TV, production and crew safety.

Uniserv Director

Central Wisconsin Uniserv Council-WEAC Region 2 (NEA Affiliate)
2005.09 - 2006.01
  • Responsible for 17 public school and technical college bargaining units throughout Central Wisconsin
  • Negotiated and enforced collective bargaining agreements
  • Filed and processed grievances
  • Investigated and "litigated" arbitrations
  • Develop and implement workshops, seminars and programs designed to strengthen the membership.

Business Representative

IATSE Local 600, International Cinematographers Guild
2000.03 - 2005.09
  • Front line" responsibilities for 13 states within 20 state region
  • Administered national Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA's), organized workers into the bargaining unit, organized dozens of employers, negotiated regional and local CBA's and oversaw local union office operations and office staff
  • Built community coalitions, interfaced with internship and educational programs at Chicago based Colleges and Universities
  • Organized educational and training seminars for our members
  • Successfully lobbied on behalf of our industry to pass and reauthorized twice, a wage-based tax credit in IL; the second of its kind in the country
  • Founding member of one of the first film industry Community/Labor/Government coalitions created for the single purpose of passing film tax incentives to create Film Jobs in 2001
  • Developed with the University of IL Chicago Labor Education Center, workshops on diversity in Film and TV in Chicago
  • Implemented the policy of our National Board in close cooperation with the National Executive Director and Regional Directors based elsewhere.

Organizer

International Organizing Staff - Midwest Office
Chicago , IL
1998.01 - 1999.01
  • Organized nurses, nursing home workers, janitors, non-teaching public school employees and home-care workers in Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin and California
  • Member of team that won the University of Iowa nurses campaign.

Director of Organizing

Service Employees International Union
Omaha , NE
- 1999.01
  • Led the Locals organizing department and activities
  • Acted as spokesperson on volatile issues
  • Developed, implemented and won union organizing campaigns
  • Identified and implemented internal organizing campaign around negotiating committee taking newly formed bargaining units to first contract
  • Implemented and won contract campaigns.

Illinois Victim-Witness Advocate/Homework Help Administrator/Multicultural Education Program Teacher

South-East Asia Center (SEAC)
Chicago , IL
1996.01 - 1997.01
  • Implemented and monitored multiple City, State and Federal funded programs directing at easing the plight of recent Asian immigrants
  • Wrote and shepherded grant proposal for the SEAC Victim-Witness Program
  • Provided legal referrals and assistance for limited and non-English speaking immigrants; primarily women
  • Taught non-violence multi-cultural classes in Northside Chicago Public Schools After School Program
  • Provided homework help for non and limited English speaking kids in Chicago Public Schools.

Instructor

Shenyang University
Shenyang , PRC
1995.01 - 1996.01
  • Taught conversation, writing, literature and research methods in second tier Chinese University.

Managing General Agent

American Income Life Insurance Company
Gaithersburg , MD
1992.01 - 1995.01
  • Owned and operated my own insurance agency
  • Sold supplemental benefits packages to middle class union families
  • Recruited, trained and managed a sales force of between 2 and 9 sales people.

Intern

United Nations Headquarters: Mission of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
NYC
1991.01
  • Monitored First and Third Committees
  • Attended G-77 meetings
  • Personal Assistant to FSO on economic and social issues.

State Field Director

League of Conservation Voters - Wisconsin
  • Dirty Dozen" Contract Campaign State Field Director
  • Organized forty volunteers statewide to protest against a US Senate candidate through an independent expenditure campaign
  • Worked with media director to implement a statewide earned media campaign
  • Developed and implemented issue focused GOTV plan.

GOTV Coordinator

Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Green Bay , WI
  • Coordinated Campaign
  • Point person in crucial two county area
  • Coordinated multiple interests and the Campaign to the first Democratic win in the WI-8 ever.

Community Outreach Director

New Transportation Alliance
Fond du Lac , WI
  • Developed and implemented independent expenditure campaign strategy in key Congressional district, through this grant funded, limited term project, designed to build community awareness and knowledge around the reauthorization of "ISTEA."

Field Organizer

Peg Lautenschlager for Congress, 6th CD
WI
  • Designed and implemented campaign strategy in and around Manitowoc, WI, including volunteer recruitment, voter education, community and Labor relations as well as implementation of Coordinated Campaign GOTV program.

Education

IATSE Officers Institute
01.2016

OSHA Outreach Trainer Training
01.2012

NEA UniServ Academy
01.2005

National AFL-CIO Organizing Institute
01.1992

National Labor College - Emergency Management Classes

Entertainment Industry OSHA 10 card holder

BA Political Science -

University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

Ealing College of Higher Education

Stevens Point Area Senior High (SPASH)

Skills

  • Contract negotiation expertise
  • Performance Tracking
  • Strategic Direction
  • Staff Training
  • Membership Development expertise
  • Contract Negotiations
  • Health Care industry expertise
  • Legal Advisory
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Public Speaking
  • Personnel Recruitment
  • Industry Expertise
  • Critical Thinking
  • Professional Networking
  • Resolving customer issues
  • Information documentation
  • Travel Arrangements
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Stress Management
  • Human Resources Coordination
  • Meeting Coordination
  • Positive Attitude
  • Strong communication abilities
  • Career Growth Strategy Development
  • Report creation
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Recordkeeping proficiency
  • Special Events Organization
  • Flexible Schedule
  • Union Official Negotiation
  • Problem-Solving
  • Relationship Building
  • Organizational Skills
  • Collective Bargaining Agreements
  • Business Correspondence
  • Documenting information
  • Troubleshooting
  • Cultural Awareness
  • Decision-Making
  • Calm Under Pressure
  • Supervision and leadership
  • Community Relations
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Reliability
  • Attention to Detail
  • Analytical Skills
  • Troubleshooting and repair
  • Strong leadership
  • Production Management
  • Film and Video Production
  • Hollywood expertise

Organizing Experience

  • Teaching Fellow-AFL-CIO Organizing Institute, Midwest, Southern and Western Regions, 2003, 2017, Frequently invited as teaching fellow at Midwest, Southern and Western Regions AFL-CIO Organizing Institute, to teach activists how to be a union organizer.
  • Service Employees International Union, Omaha, Nebraska, 1999, Present, Director of Organizing - Local 226, Led the Locals organizing department and activities. Acted as spokesperson on volatile issues. Developed, implemented and won union organizing campaigns. Identified and implemented internal organizing campaign around negotiating committee taking newly formed bargaining units to first contract. Implemented and won contract campaigns.
  • League of Conservation Voters, Wisconsin, Fall 1998, Present, State Field Director, Organized forty volunteers statewide to protest against a US Senate candidate through an independent expenditure campaign. Worked with media director to implement a statewide earned media campaign. Developed and implemented issue focused GOTV plan.
  • Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI, Fall 1996, Present, GOTV Coordinator, Coordinated Campaign. Point person in crucial two county area. Coordinated multiple interests and the Campaign to the first Democratic win in the WI-8 ever.
  • New Transportation Alliance, Fond du Lac, WI, Fall 1996, Present, Community Outreach Director, Developed and implemented independent expenditure campaign strategy in key Congressional district, through this grant funded, limited term project, designed to build community awareness and knowledge around the reauthorization of "ISTEA."
  • Peg Lautenschlager for Congress, 6th CD, WI, Fall 1992, Present, Field Organizer, Designed and implemented campaign strategy in and around Manitowoc, WI, including volunteer recruitment, voter education, community and Labor relations as well as implementation of Coordinated Campaign GOTV program.

Career Break

Disability, 12/18, Present, I stumbled upon the "flesh-eating" bacteria around December 21, 2018. By the 22nd, I was hospitalized, and surgeries began. 42 days in the ICU. Hospitalized at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJC) in St. Louis for Fournier's Gangrene. Please don't just look at the first picture. My Fournier's was different and much worse! Further hospitalized. Sent home. Then the hard part started. In a bed for months. I needed to learn to stand and then walk again. The gigantic hole took more than a year close. It took a village of loved ones, people who became members of my team, and people I met only once, who stepped up and stepped in and saved my life.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Labor Representative

NNOC (National Nurses Organizing Committee)
2018.01 - 2018.12

Business Agent/Executive/Political/Organizing/Training/Safety Director

IATSE Local 491, Studio Mechanics of the Carolinas and Savannah
2006.01 - 2017.12

Uniserv Director

Central Wisconsin Uniserv Council-WEAC Region 2 (NEA Affiliate)
2005.09 - 2006.01

Business Representative

IATSE Local 600, International Cinematographers Guild
2000.03 - 2005.09

Organizer

International Organizing Staff - Midwest Office
1998.01 - 1999.01

Illinois Victim-Witness Advocate/Homework Help Administrator/Multicultural Education Program Teacher

South-East Asia Center (SEAC)
1996.01 - 1997.01

Instructor

Shenyang University
1995.01 - 1996.01

Managing General Agent

American Income Life Insurance Company
1992.01 - 1995.01

Intern

United Nations Headquarters: Mission of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
1991.01

Director of Organizing

Service Employees International Union
- 1999.01

State Field Director

League of Conservation Voters - Wisconsin

GOTV Coordinator

Democratic Party of Wisconsin

Community Outreach Director

New Transportation Alliance

Field Organizer

Peg Lautenschlager for Congress, 6th CD

IATSE Officers Institute

OSHA Outreach Trainer Training

NEA UniServ Academy

National AFL-CIO Organizing Institute

National Labor College - Emergency Management Classes

Entertainment Industry OSHA 10 card holder

BA Political Science -

University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

Ealing College of Higher Education

Stevens Point Area Senior High (SPASH)
Jason Rosin