Tucker, Jerry (b. 1938)

Jerry Tucker is among the major US labor activists and labor strategists from the late twentieth to early twenty‐first centuries. He spent his life fighting for workers and challenging the traditional labor movement to stand up for its original mission of solidarity, democracy, and accountability. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1938 into a working‐class, union family. His father was a journeyman tool and die maker and member of the United Electrical Workers Union (UE) and his mother was a garment worker before leaving the work world to raise Tucker and his three siblings. Tucker married Elaine in 1969 and has three daughters.