Jon Weissman

Jon Weissman is a “community-labor organizer” in Western Massachusetts and Coordinator, Western Massachusetts Jobs with Justice (WMJwJ), a coalition he helped found in 1993.  Jobs with Justice builds local coalitions of labor, community, student, and faith-based organizations in the struggle for workers’ rights as human rights. 

Jon came into the Post Office in Springfield the week of the historic wildcat strike, March 1970, retired from his job as a US Postal Service City Letter Carrier in 2002 after 32 years, and stepped down as President of his union, National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Western Mass. Branch 46 in January 2007, after 12 years.  He immediately went to work as Coordinator, Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council, for 5 years, as well as the WMJwJ Coordinator, where he now works full-time.  He is also the elected Secretary of WMJwJ; Secretary-Treasurer, Pioneer Valley Central Labor Council; and Chair, Western Mass. Single Payer Network.  Jon is a Trustee and Secretary, Warren J. Plaut Charitable Trust; Director and Executive Committee Member, Union Community Fund of Western Massachusetts; and a former Director, Rosenberg Fund for Children.

As a labor leader and community organizer, Jon has helped build organizations, organized actions, facilitated meetings, taught classes, testified to government officials, etc.  His activism began in the civil rights movement in high school in Northern Virginia.