Director of Organization Mark Meinster joined UE in 1997 as a field organizer in New England, where he helped 350 service and maintenance workers at the University of Vermont organize UE Local 267. He worked organizing new locals, bargaining contracts, and running strikes in New England and then in the Midwest, where he assisted UE Local 1110 in their historic six-day plant occupation of Republic Windows and Doors in 2008. He helped launch Warehouse Workers for Justice in 2008, and since 2018 has led a UE organizing team that has won NLRB elections covering over 2000 workers across 15 states. He was elected Director of Organization in 2021.