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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
RECOGNIZING 30 YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED SERVICE FOR CARL ROSEN
WHEREAS, Carl Rosen, a lifelong Chicagoan and labor leader, retired in November 2025 after three decades of distinguished leadership and service in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), leaving behind an extraordinary legacy of democratic and worker-led unionism; and
WHEREAS, Carl Rosen's devotion to the labor movement began in childhood, walking alongside his father during his first picket line at the age of five; and
WHEREAS, Carl Rosen's father was a member of UE Local 1114 on Chicago's South Side, instilling in Carl the values of solidarity, collective action, and working-class power that would later define his life's work; and
WHEREAS, after years of working in union-represented industrial jobs and organizing for social justice causes, Carl Rosen became a maintenance electrician and joined UE Local 190 at Kerr Glass in Chicago in 1984, where he quickly emerged as a trusted rank-and-file leader, serving as steward, bargaining committee member, and local president in a diverse, member-driven workplace; and
WHEREAS, in 1994, Carl Rosen led a landmark plant-closing fight at Kerr Glass, mobilizing workers locally and nationally, confronting corporate greed, and securing a historic severance agreement including lifetime health coverage for senior workers, demonstrating the power of collective resistance and principled leadership; and
WHEREAS, Carl Rosen was elected Secretary-Treasurer of UE District 11 in 1990 and District President in 1994, later becoming the first President of the UE Western Region in 2006, where he ensured that workers across a vast and diverse region spanning from the Midwest to the West Coast had an equal voice in their union; and
WHEREAS, Carl Rosen provided steadfast leadership to both private and public-sector workers, including UE's first large public-sector local, Iowa United Professionals, and emerging graduate worke...
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