Raynor served for 10 years as chairman of the 4.5 billion dollar Amalgamated Bank, the only union owned bank in America. He served two terms as co-chair of the Council of Institutional Investors, the largest organization of corporate, public and union pension funds in the country, representing three trillion dollars in assets. Raynor was the longtime Chairman of several union-affiliated national pension and insurance funds with some three billion dollars in assets and has had a seminal leadership role in advancing pension fund investment in private equity and hedge funds. He forged mutually productive partnerships between large corporations and his union in the retail, clothing, textile industrial laundry, and hotel and food service industries. Raynor has been nationally recognized for his negotiating and organizing work throughout his career, usually with particular emphasis on the 20 years he headed his unions’ highly successful Southern organizing programs.

He served as the Vice President of the AFL-CIO and was a founding member of Change To Win, a separate labor federation of some 6,000,000 workers. He served as President of the garment workers union UNITE, and UNITE HERE, the merger between the national garment union and the hotel and casino union. ✓ UNITE HERE endorsed Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential general election.Bruce Raynor has had a 38-year career as one of the most respected labor leaders in America. When the union was still UNITE!, it participated in protests against the Iraq war. On May 6th, UNITE HERE sanctioned affiliation with a pro-immigration rally (which followed the 'Day Without a Mexican' protest) in Malcolm X Park in Washington, DC. UNITE HERE has also been affiliated with various political causes, such as the anti-Iraq war and pro-immigration rights movements.

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