Hard Labor: Chicago-Kent Alum Featured in Illinois Tech Magazine

“If my dad wasn’t a union member, I wouldn’t have had that support to go to college,” Bob Reiter ’03 says. “As a person exposed to a variety of different work environments, I became passionate about pursuing a job working in labor to help people like my dad and my mom.”

As the longtime president of the Chicago Federation of Labor—the third-largest central labor council in the country, representing 300 unions and roughly half a million working people—Reiter has successfully fought for labor legislation across the Midwest. 

In his time that is not spent advocating for public policy and working to elect labor-friendly candidates, he serves on numerous boards representing labor issues.

Read more about Reiter’s story in the spring issue of Illinois Tech Magazine.