AFT Vice President
Alan Lubin was elected executive vice president of the more than 600,000-member New York State United Teachers in 1993, following 26 years as an elected leader in the United Federation of Teachers in New York City.

Lubin currently serves as a vice president of the AFT. He has been a vice president of the New York State AFL-CIO since 1993 and serves on its executive committee. Lubin also serves as vice chair of the New York State Educational Conference Board, is a member of the Higher Education Conference Board and serves on the board of directors of the Medicare Rights Center and of the Council for Unity. Lubin has been a member of the NYSUT board of directors since 1973. He also serves as co-chair of the Business and Labor Coalition of New York.

As executive vice president, Lubin oversees NYSUT's legislative and political action programs and is secretary-treasurer of VOTE-COPE, the union's voluntary political action fund. Lubin organized NYSUT's nationally acclaimed political action committee with activists in every one of New York's state senatorial districts. Lubin successfully spearheaded the drive for several watershed pieces of legislation, and since his election as NYSUT executive vice president, state aid to public education has increased 72 percent.

During his career as an educator and union leader, Lubin has received numerous awards and honors, including the 2004 Carolyn Holmes Humanitarian Award from the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; 2004 Champion of Labor Award from the New York Democratic Party; 2004 "Advocate" award from the New York state chapter of the AFT Black Caucus; the 1999 UFT Charles Cogen Teacher Union Award; the 1998 Congressional Friends of Ellis Island Award; and the Friend of Education Award from the Oceanside (N.Y.) Federation of Teachers.

(August 22, 2008)