Tony Pecinovsky

President

President, Tony Pecinovsky

Tony Pecinovsky writes regularly for the People’s World and the St. Louis Labor Tribune, “one of the country’s oldest and most respected union papers.” His articles have been published in Shelterforce, Z-Magazine, Alternet and Political Affairs, among other publications.

Through-out his professional career, Tony has served in a number of leadership capacities, including fund-raising co-chair of St. Louis Jobs with Justice, as a Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition board member and on the Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates (MIRA) coalition steering committee. For five years (2010-2015), as a member of the St. Louis United Media Guild, he served as the secretary-treasurer of the Greater St. Louis CWA (Communications Workersof America) City Council and as a delegate to the Greater St. Louis Central Labor Council. 

Tony has lectured at numerous universities and colleges, including UMSL, MIZZOU, Washington University and the University of Central Missouri, among others. He has also presented at numerous conferences and seminars on workers’ rights, most recently the 2018 Labor Notes conference and the 2018 Labor Campaign for Single Payer Health Care annual strategy meeting. In April 2019, he will present at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual conference.

Tony Pecinovsky is the president of the St. Louis Workers’ Education Society

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Zenobia Thompson

Vice President

Zenobia Thompson is a registered nurse, health care and anti-death penalty activist. Previously, she served as co-chair of the Committee to Save Homer G. Phillips Hospital and the Campaign for Human Dignity. Thompson also served as the co-chair of the St. Louis Free Angela Davis Committee. She is a veteran of dozen of electoral campaigns focused on electing African American trade unionists to local and state-wide office.

Thompson is active in St. Louis Jobs with Justice, the Organization of Black Struggle, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and serves on the executive board of Missourians For Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP). She is the vice president of the St. Louis Workers’ Education Society.

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