John Samuelsen (born 1967 or 1968) is an American labor union leader. Born in

Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

, Samuelsen became a track worker on the New York Subway and joined the

Transport Workers Union of America Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) is a United States labor union that was founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article disc ...

(TWU) in 1993. In 2009, he was elected president of the union's Local 100, in which role he negotiated an agreement covering 38,000 workers. Samuelsen was elected as president of the TWU in 2017, its youngest leader since

Mike Quill Michael Joseph "Red Mike" Quill (September 18, 1905 – January 28, 1966) was an Irish-American labor leader and politician who co-founded the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), a union of subway workers in New York City New Y ...

. He credited Quill's career as an inspiration. He was also elected as a vice-president of the

AFL-CIO The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 61 national and international unions, together r ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Samuelsen, John Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American trade union leaders People from Brooklyn Trade unionists from New York (state) Vice presidents of the AFL-CIO