UNITE
Harris L. Raynor is
the Regional Director of the Southern Region and an International Vice
President of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial
and Textile Employees (UNITE).
The Southern Region is the largest region of UNITE, representing some 30,000 workers in the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia and Mississippi.
Mr. Raynor has been employed in various capacities by ACTWU, a
predecessor to UNITE, since 1984. From
1978 to 1984, Mr. Raynor was with United Furniture
Workers of America where he directed that union’s OSHA and Job Training
Departments as well as serving as an international representative. Mr. Raynor was a
public school teacher in the Central Harlem School District of New York City
from 1970 to 1978.
Mr. Raynor currently serves on the Advisory Council of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and is a trustee of the Unite Multi-Employer Retirement and Insurance Funds.
He is married to Dr. B. Denise Raynor, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at
Emory University. They have three
children, Derek, a graduate of Cornell University, Shelley, a graduate of the
University of Michigan, and Keith in high school. They live in Decatur, Georgia.