Mark Dimondstein is an American labor union leader. Dimondstein began working for the

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Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro (; ) is a city in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States, and its county seat. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 307,381 in 2024. It is the List of municipalitie ...

, in 1983. He joined the

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(APWU), and in 1986 he was elected as president of his union local. The city council also appointed him to the Greensboro Human Relations Commission. In 1999, Dimondstein led an organizing drive which led workers at East Coast Leasing to join the APWU, the union's first success in the private sector. The following year, he was appointed as the union's National Lead Field Organizer. For his successes in the private sector, he was in 2001 made the

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Southern Organizer of the Year Award. In 2013, Dimondstein stood for the presidency of the union, defeating incumbent

Cliff Guffey Cliff Guffey is a former American labor union leader. Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Guffey moved frequently as a child, as his father was a pilot in the United States Navy. In 1968, Cliff joined the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietn ...

. He focused on opposing potential privatization of the post office, and of reducing deliveries to five days a week, and proposed doing so by working more closely with other AFL-CIO affiliates. He was also elected as a vice-president of the AFL-CIO.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dimondstein, Mark Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American trade union leaders People from Greensboro, North Carolina Trade unionists from North Carolina Vice presidents of the AFL-CIO