Meet New Eastern Asst Director

16 July 2021

When your parents were the president of an SEIU local and a staff member at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, you’re pretty much fated to have a career in labor, right?

Well, sort of, says Local 600’s new Assistant Eastern Region Director Jennifer Madar.

“I think at some point, I said ‘I never ever want to do this,’” said Madar, who started at Local 600 on June 7. “And of course, that’s what you end up doing. I basically grew up on a picket line, and my parents worked long hours. You’re not always understanding about that when you’re a kid.”

A native of Eagle Rock, Madar is the daughter of former SEIU President David Bullock and Diane Bullock who worked for Bill Robertson and James Wood at the L.A. County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. Madar studied International Relations at USC and considered graduate school or law school. Instead, she moved to New York and began a career in labor relations with SEIU, organizing home care and nursing home workers in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and the New York and New Jersey areas.

When Madar was moving back to California in 2005, the national organizer with IATSE Local 700 (The Editors Guild) told her there was an opportunity with the union. Although the landscape for health care labor was different from that of an entertainment guild, Madar was curious. She had relatives who were IATSE members and she grew up with their stories about the industry.

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