Jorge Ramirez
Managing Director and Head of Labor Strategies @ GCM Grosvenor
Jorge Ramirez is president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and a vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the AFL-CIO. The CFL is the third largest central labor council of the AFL-CIO, representing 300 unions who in turn represent half a million working people across Cook County. The AFL-CIOis the umbrella federation of U.S. unions, representing 13 million working men and women. Jorge has served as an officer of the Chicago Federation of Labor since July 2006 and was elected the CFL’s first Latino president in July 2010. In February 2015, he was elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council as a vice president, helping to guide the daily work of the national federation. In addition to his work at the CFL, Jorge is the Chairman of the Board of Managers for ST Acquisitions Holdings, a coalition of union and like-minded investors who purchased the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, straightdope.com and Answers Media in July 2017, making him the first Latino chairman of a major media corporation.Jorge earned his first union card in 1988 through the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 100A, now Local 1546. He worked his way up through the ranks, ultimately serving as UFCW Local 1546’s executive director before coming to the CFL.As the son of Mexican immigrants, Jorge understands the struggles his father, a meat packing worker in Chicago’s Back of Yards neighborhood, and his fellow workers endured to unionize their workplace in the 1960s. Many of the packinghouse workers were immigrants, often unable to fight for their rights on their own. By standing together they secured a union contract that offered better wages and benefits. As a child, Jorge witnessed first-hand the strength a collective voice gave to the packinghouse workers, occasionally standing with his father on the picket lines. The lessons he learned provide the motivation he has to serve working men and women in organized labor today.In his role as president of the CFL, Jorge serves on executive and advisory boards for labor, civic, and community organizations across the city and around the country. His involvement with these organizations allows him to represent the interests of labor and protect the fundamental rights of all workers. As a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Jorge promotes the dual mandate of maximizing employment and stabilizing prices while also moderating long-term interest rates to foster a healthy economy. Through his work with Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, Chicago Sports Commission, Choose Chicago, Chicago Infrastructure Trust and Navy Pier, Inc., Jorge works to bring jobs and expand the region’s economy by growing and improving the city’s manufacturing, infrastructure, tourism and trade show opportunities. Locally, Jorge also serves on the boards of Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, the Archdiocese of Chicago Office for Immigrant Affairs, St. Joseph College Seminary, and other civic and community groups.Jorge graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a double major in marketing and computer information systems. He later went on to receive his Juris Doctor from the Chicago-Kent College of Law.He and his wife, Catrina, have four sons.
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About GCM Grosvenor
GCM Grosvenor is an investment management firm that offers asset management solutions. It has approximately $80 billion in assets under management across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and absolute return investment strategies. GCM Grosvenor delivers flexible solutions to the largest and most sophisticated institutional andindividual investors.
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Jorge Ramirez
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