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Draft:Mark Erlich

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Mark Erlich (born October 25, 1949) is an American labor leader and author. From 2005 to 2017, he was the head of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters.[1] Since 2017, he has taught at the Harvard Trade Union Program, today the Center for Labor and a Just Economy.[2]

Career

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Labor leadership

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Erlich was field director for the 1988 No on 2 campaign[3][page needed] against a ballot initiative that would have repealed the prevailing wage law in Massachusetts. In 1992, he ousted the incumbent leadership when he ran for Business Manager for Local 40.[4] As head of Local 40, Erlich steered the union into leadership in local and regional political and organizing efforts.[5][6][7] Construction industry users who came under union contract during Erlich's leadership of Local 40 include MIT[8], Harvard[9], as well as industrial companies such as Biogen.[10][11]

When the Carpenters Union restructured into regional councils, Erlich served as Organizing Director of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC) from 1997 to 2002. In 2005, he defeated the Regional Council's incumbent leadership and was elected as Executive Secretary-Treasurer (EST) of NERCC, overseeing the 25,000 member organization.[12][13][14][15][excessive citations] As EST, he chaired the union’s Training Fund as well as its Health,[16] Pension, and Annuity Funds.

Research and teaching

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Since retiring from the union in 2017, Erlich has been a Wertheim Fellow at the Center for Labor & a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.[17][18][19] Erlich has taught labor history at institutions including the Harvard Trade Union Program.[20]

Public service and advisory roles

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Erlich served on numerous boards and advisory panels, including appointments by Boston mayors and Massachusetts governors to the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals, Economic Development Planning Council, the Board of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston board, and the board of MassINC. He was also Vice-President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Executive Board and a member of the Massachusetts Building Trades Council Executive Board.[21]

Family

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Erlich's grandfather was Henryk Ehrlich, a leader of the General Jewish Labor Bund in Poland executed by the Soviet Union in 1941. Henryk was survived by his wife Sophia Dubnova and their children, including Victor and Alexander Erlich.[22] Alexander Erlich was a professor of economics at Columbia University and the author of the definitive English-language study of pre-Stalin Soviet economic policy.[23]

Publications

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Books

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  • The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work. University of Illinois Press, 2023. ISBN ‎ 978-0252087332[24]
  • Labor at the Ballot Box: The Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Campaign of 1988. Temple University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0877227274[25]
  • With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts. Temple University Press, 1986 ISBN 978-0877224334[26][27]

References

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  1. ^ "New England Carpenter's Union Head Stepping Down". Boston Business Journal. February 3, 2017.
  2. ^ Erlich, Mark. "Mark Erlich". Center for Labor and a Just Economy. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
  3. ^ Erlich, Mark. Labor at the Ballot Box: The Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Campaign of 1988. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  4. ^ Butterfield, Bruce (June 9, 1992). "Reform Candidate Takes Over Carpenter Local in Cambridge". Boston Globe.
  5. ^ Lewis, Diane (August 15, 1993). ""Carpenters Leadership Hammers Out a New Era"". Boston Sunday Globe.
  6. ^ Devine, Matt (November 8, 1994). ""Builder Immune Under Wage Law"". Quincy Patriot-Ledger.
  7. ^ Lewis, Diane (May 7, 1997). ""Workers Get Part of Pay"". Boston Globe.
  8. ^ McNeill, Lorna (November 12, 1992). ""MIT Project Steeped in History, Shrouded in Controversy"". Cambridge Chronicle.
  9. ^ Kimmelman, Jay (February 13, 1996). ""Local 40 Pickets Harvard Project"". Harvard Crimson.
  10. ^ Carroll, Matt (June 25, 1994). ""Biogen Project Embroiled in Labor Dispute"". Boston Globe.
  11. ^ Primack, Phil (September 15, 1994). ""Union Protests Biogen Hiring"". Boston Herald.
  12. ^ Erlich, Mark (December 16–22, 2005). "Union Wage". Boston Business Journal.
  13. ^ "Carpenters Nail New Digs". Boston Herald. January 31, 2010.
  14. ^ Erlich, Mark. "Holding the Union Together When the Economy is Coming Apart". Dissent (Winter 2011).
  15. ^ "Diversity a Top Priority for New England Carpenters Union". Bay State Banner. January 18, 2014.
  16. ^ Martinez, Barbara (October 6, 2006). ""How Quiet Moves by a Publisher Sway Billions in Drug Spending"". Wall Street Journal.
  17. ^ "Carpenters Union Head Erlich Set to Retire". Boston Globe. February 3, 2017.
  18. ^ "A Labor Voice at Harvard". Boston Globe. July 18, 2017.
  19. ^ "Former Union Boss Continues Crusade at Harvard with New Labor Report". Boston Globe. June 25, 2019.
  20. ^ Erlich, Mark. "Mark Erlich". Center for Labor and a Just Economy. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
  21. ^ "Mark Erlich, Wertheim Fellow".
  22. ^ ErlichSummer 2026, Mark. "Resurrecting the Bund". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2026-07-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  23. ^ "ALEXANDER ERLICH, 72, ECONOMIST". The New York Times. 1985-01-10. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-07-21.
  24. ^ "The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work".
  25. ^ Primack, Phil (November 2, 1990). ""Tracing Link from '88 Question 2 to tax rollback pitch"". Boston Herald.
  26. ^ "With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts".
  27. ^ ""With Our Hands"". New York Times Book Review. May 24, 1987.

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