Stuart Appelbaum
{{Short description|American trade union leader (born 1953)}}
Stuart Harris Appelbaum (born 1953) is an American trade union leader. Appelbaum has been the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) since May 1, 1998. He is also president of the Jewish Labor Committee.{{cite news |last1=Lapin |first1=Andrew |title=Meet the longtime Jewish labor activist going up against Amazon in Alabama |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-longtime-jewish-labor-activist-going-up-against-amazon-in-alabama/ |work=www.timesofisrael.com |date=April 9, 2021}} In February 2022, he was elected board of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S. government-funded non-profit.{{cite web |title=Labor Activist Stuart Appelbaum Elected to NED Board of Directors |url=https://www.ned.org/labor-activist-stuart-appelbaum-elected-to-ned-board-of-directors/ |website=NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY |access-date=1 October 2022 |date=17 February 2022}}
Early life and education
Appelbaum spent his childhood in Hartford, Connecticut. As a youth, he was raised in a Conservative synagogue and was president of his United Synagogue Youth chapter. He attended Camp Ramah. He graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University and received a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. On September 1, 2019, he married MUFG Bank business analyst Michihito Osawa in Battery Park, New York City. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy took part in the ceremony.{{cite news |title=Michihito Osawa, Stuart Appelbaum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/fashion/weddings/michihito-osawa-stuart-appelbaum.html |work=The New York Times |date=1 September 2019}}
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Category:Trade unionists from Connecticut
Category:People from Hartford, Connecticut
Category:Jewish American trade unionists
Category:Brandeis University alumni
Category:Harvard Law School alumni
Category:United Food and Commercial Workers people
Category:American Conservative Jews
Category:Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union people
Category:Vice presidents of the AFL-CIO
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