John Braxton

John Braxton is an associate VFP member and a member of the VFP

Labor Working Group. He was a crewmember of the Quaker ship Phoenix that delivered medical supplies to North Vietnam during the war; he served almost a year and a half in Federal prison as a draft resister. He worked for 20 years in the reform movement within the Teamsters union, and helped prepare for the 1997 national UPS strike, which created 10,000 new full-time jobs. At Community College of Philadelphia, he was co-president of his American Federation of Teachers local union. He was a founding member of US Labor Against the War and Philadelphia Jobs with Justice.