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David Rolf (born 1969) is an American labor union leader who currently serves as president of the Seattle-based Local 775 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents health care workers, and as international vice president of SEIU. Rolf grew up in Cincinnati and was influenced by members of his family, including his mother, who worked as a unionized teacher, and his grandfathers. His maternal grandfather was a General Motors employee and United Automobile Workers (UAW) member who participated in labor demonstrations, and his paternal grandfather was a Procter & Gamble employee who put himself through law school and eventually became a lawyer and politician. During his time at Bard College in New York, Rolf interned at a local chapter of SEIU. He later accepted an entry-level position as an organizer for the Atlanta chapter. In 1998, he worked opposite the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to organize home-care workers. The negotiations resulted in the Board establishing a public authority that was joined by 74,000 workers, becoming the largest union drive since Ford River Rouge Complex autoworkers joined UAW 70 years earlier. Rolf has been credited for helping to pass the November 2013 ballot measure in SeaTac, Washington known as Proposition 1, which set a $15-per-hour minimum wage for airport and hotel workers. He has also been credited for making a $15-per-hour minimum wage part of Ed Murray's agenda. Rolf served on Murray's transition team following his successful bid for Mayor of Seattle in 2013, and was named co-chair of his Income Inequality Advisory Committee. Rolf's minimum wage work earned him recognition from the White House as a "Champion of Change". Rolf advocates for change and innovation within the labor union movement, including the use of social networking services, and is known for challenging politicians and collaborating with leaders of various sectors. ==Early life and education== Rolf was born in 1969 and grew up in Cincinnati. His father, a lawyer, and mother, a unionized teacher with a blue-collar background, held liberal values and taught him to abide by the Golden Rule.〔〔 His father had pledged to a mostly black fraternity in the early 1960s in support of the civil rights movement, and his mother took him to "U.S. Out of Central America" meetings at her Unitarian church.〔 They also instilled the belief "that everyone is equal and you can be anything you want to be", which Rolf now considers "either the most naive or dishonest thing you can tell a child". He had a comfortable upbringing, once recalling, "We had a brick ranch home and a sandbox in the backyard. We had a station wagon. For vacation, throw the kids in the back seat, stay in the Best Western on the way to Disneyland. It was a sitcom, stereotype life."〔 He was also influenced by other family members. Rolf's maternal grandfather, described as "hardscrabble",〔 worked at a General Motors plant and was a member of United Automobile Workers (UAW) who picketed on several occasions.〔 He observed the evolution of his paternal grandfather's career, who worked a third-shift job at a Procter & Gamble soap factory in order to pay for law school, eventually becoming a lawyer and local politician.〔 During his formative years, Rolf witnessed inequality and limited economic mobility, and "learned to be angry at injustice".〔 Rolf attended Bard College in New York, where his political and social ideologies were further developed. He discovered that he "really ()" with the content he would read in ''The Nation'', a left-leaning publication that had been introduced to him by a college girlfriend.〔 Rolf said of his interest in the issues that emerged during his time at college, including AIDS, apartheid and others during the presidency of Ronald Reagan: "About every campus cause you could be involved in during the late '80s and early '90s... I was in."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Rolf」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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