Alan B. Lubin NYSUT's executive vice president since 1993, helps guide the union's massive political mobilization and legislative efforts. He came to Albany after 26 years as an educator and elected leader of the United Federation of Teachers, NYSUT's affiliate in New York City.

Lubin has helped shape the union's legislative and political action programs as executive vice president. He serves as secretary/treasurer of VOTE-COPE, the union's voluntary political action fund in which more than 180,000 members participate. Realizing the strength of a grassroots political network, Lubin organized NYSUT's nationally acclaimed political action committee with activists in every state Senate district.

That strong presence helped bring forward landmark legislation, including the permanent cost-of-living adjustment law for retired public employees, the Schools Against Violence in Education law and the bill mandating that every state public school have a defibrillator available. With Lubin's advocacy, state school aid has increased 133 percent since the early 1990s, and he continues to push for greater investment and more full-time faculty in SUNY and CUNY.

Lubin brings his experience as a state union leader to the NYSUT Board of Directors, and to both the state AFL-CIO and American Federation of Teachers as a vice president. He advocates for strong public schools as vice chair of the state Educational Conference Board, as a board director for the Council for Unity and as a member of the state Comptroller's Pension Task Force. He brings NYSUT's issues to the Medicare Rights Center as treasurer and serves as co-chair of the Business and Labor Coalition of New York.

Lubin's priorities as a NYSUT leader include expanding involvement of newer members, greater minority member participation in the state and local unions and organizing new members into labor's family. Lubin's work has brought him many awards, including the Cleveland Robinson Labor award from the Capital District Coalition of Black Trade Unionists in 2009, AARP's 50th Anniversary Social Impact award in 2008, the Carolyn Holmes Humanitarian award from the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, the Champion of Labor award from the NYS Democratic Party and the Advocate award from the state chapter of the AFT Black Caucus, all in 2004; the UFT's Charles Cogen Teacher Union award in 1999; the Congressional Friends of Ellis Island in 1998; and the Friend of Education award from the Oceanside Federation of Teachers. He was elected to the United States Electoral College for the 2004 and 2008 presidential election.

Lubin lives in Clifton Park with his wife, Sharon. They have two grown children, both SUNY graduates, and a beautiful granddaughter, Helena.

March 2009