Jon Brandow has been a rank-and-file labor orga­niz­er, the pres­i­dent of a large ship­yard union local and an eco­nom­ic pol­i­cy and devel­op­ment advi­sor to local, state and fed­er­al agen­cies; his pro­fes­sion­al and advo­ca­cy work has been pro­filed in Busi­ness Week, The Boston Globe, The Philadel­phia Inquir­er, The Bal­ti­more Sun, and Ha’aretz. He’s writ­ten for The Boston Globe, In These Times, Tablet, and Wash­ing­ton Jew­ish Week, and pub­lish­es a blog on Jew­ish val­ues and eco­nom­ic pol­i­cy. He is the founder of the indus­try research firm BizMiner.