Chris Chafe is the Executive Director of Change to Win, America's fastest growing labor federation with seven unions and six million members. A well-known advocate for workers, Chafe began his union service seventeen years ago as an organizer in the textile industry in the South. Chafe made the connection between organizing and politics as the political director of UNITE, and moved to chief of staff for UNITE HERE following the merger of the two unions. He served in the key staff group that helped create and advise Change to Win from its inception in 2005 and was the lead negotiator for Change to Win in the creation and implementation of joint political agreements with the AFL-CIO during the 2006 election cycle that allowed labor to maintain a strong field presence in key races across the country.
