Marsha Niemeijer

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Marsha Niemeijer is a New York City-based journalist and labor activist who writes on labor and workplace issues. Niemeijer has played a leading role at Labor Notes, the largest circulation cross-union national publication remaining in the United States.

As an active member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, she served on the executive board during her Local's 11 week strike in the Fall/Winter of 2000. She has worked with Transnational Information Exchange since 1995, and coordinates the TIE international and cross-border programs with Teofilo Reyes (the former co-director of Labor Notes).

She covers longshore workers, telecom, the Canadian auto industry, Canadian and European labor, as well as international economic issues.

Niemeijer collaborated in the writing and editing of A Troublemakers' Handbook 2.