Bio:
Glynda is
a native Floridian and attended Miami-Dade Community College, studying Early
Childhood Education. After one year she changed her major to Business and
transferred to Barry University and Nova University, where she also studied
Labor Law. She is divorced and has 3 sons, Corey, Darryl and Christopher.
Accomplishments:
Outside of her local union responsibilities, she was also on the Executive
Board of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, as well as the Executive
Board of The A. Philip Randolph Institute and was later elected President of
the Miami-Dade Chapter, which she held until 2006 and currently the
Executive Vice President of the State Chapter. The A. Philip Randolph
Institute is the affiliate Constituent group of the AFL-CIO, which educates
the minority community of issues as it relates to working families; they do
community services, voter education, voter registration and get-out-the-vote
activities. She was elected to the Executive Board of the Juvenile Justice
Community Services Board for the Miami Halfway House; which housed juvenile
offenders, she served 3 years; Executive Board of the Le Jardin Child
Development Center, which provided affordable childcare to the minority
community; oversaw the Budget and Operations of the Centers. On the Board of
Human Services Coalition, which held a drive to bring a Living Wage
Ordinance to Miami-Dade County, and after the Living Wage was enacted,
Glynda was appointed to serve on the Board of the Living Wage Commission by
Commissioner Dennis Moss. She was a key organizer on the March on
Tallahassee against Governor Jeb Bush and his onslaught of attacks on the
citizen of Florida. Glynda was invited by WLRN-17 to discuss the social
security concerns back in 1998 and Channel 39 to give the views on the March
on Tallahassee and the impact on the Black Community.
Qualifications:
She was loaned to the United Way by BellSouth as a Loaned Executive
where she spent 3 months on the fundraising campaign, and a Union Counselor
trained by the United Way/AFL-CIO. Alumni of Leadership South Dade, class of
93/94, this was a historical class after Hurricane Andrew as they were
instrumental into the redevelopment of the South Dade Community. She was a
member of the Florida Speakers Bureau, Toastmasters and the National
Association of Female Executives (NAFE).Glynda was very active in her former
local union, Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 3122. Her
activism, lead her to hold several key positions within her union, she was a
steward who represented mostly the Service Representatives, but she was
occasionally called to assist in other units. Because she was such a strong
advocate for workers, they elected her to Chair the Women and the Equity
Committee within her local, which investigated and made recommendations for
correction whenever discrimination was evident. Later, at the Communication
Workers of America National Convention in Detroit, MI her Regional
Representative for CWA voted her to be the Regional Representative for the
Women and Equity Committee which covered nine states (Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana
and Kentucky). She held that position for 3 terms. While holding those
positions, she was also elected to be the Legislative Chair for the Local
Union where she traveled extensively between Washington D.C., Tallahassee
and all states in between, lobbying Legislators on issues important to
Telecommunications and CWA and working families. She held this position
until she came to work for the Federation, where she has been a Business
Representative since 1999. She has had many Leadership trainings from such
schools as Florida International University, University of Georgia,
University of Alabama and the George Meany Center.
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