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CJ Garcia-Linz

President of Progressive Workers Union

Cecilia (CJ) Garcia-Linz (she/her) is serving a second term as President of Progressive Workers Union and is an employee with the Sierra Club's Michigan Chapter. She has served as a Sierra Club Chapter Unit Rep and was a member of the bargaining team negotiating the Sierra Club Chapter Unit’s first CBA. She’s a mom, grandma, activist, chef, artist, rescue pet mom, and youth sports coach. CJ is committed to equity, justice for all, human rights, food sovereignty and security, environmental conservation, and abolishing the police and systems of incarceration.
Politics

The Labor Movement Includes Nonprofit Workers, Too

"Many of the progressive nonprofits who have loudly supported labor campaigns from the sidelines have been awfully quiet about their own staff unions."