Nominee's Background:
Family background:
Thomas P. Glynn III, married with children; lives in Belmont, Mass.
Professional experience: * Chief operating officer, Partners Health Care, Boston (1996-present) * Deputy secretary, Department of Labor; member. the President's Management Council, consisting of chief operating officers; chaired by the deputy director for management (DDM) of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), this body is an institutional lever for exerting leadership on management matters. (1993-96) * Senior vice president for finance and administration, Brown University (1991-93) * General manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (1989-91) * General Manager of the World Trade Center Boston (1988-89) * Deputy commissioner of Welfare, Massachusetts State government (1983) * Assistant dean of the Florence Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University (1981-83) * Assistant Director, Governor's Office of Program and Policy Development, State of Massachusetts. * Vista volunteer, South Boston (1968-70)
Education:
* Ph.D. Brandeis University (1977) * M.S.W. Brandeis University (1972) * Tufts University (1968)
Partial list of board memberships:
* Fellow, National Academy of Public Administrators * Research Bureau board of directors * Tufts University College Board of Overseers * Class II director, John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. (member of the audit and the ethics and business practices committee) and member, board of directors John Hancock Life Insurance, Inc
Partial list of awards:
* Brandeis University , Alumni Achievement Award, 1997
Donates to:
* Health Care for All * Second Step Organization, transitional support and programs for victims of domestic violence * Belmont (Mass.) High School PTO
Quotations:
"There used to be a lot more connections between the universities and state government. When I was at the welfare department, we hired a lot of people from Heller and the Kennedy School. One of the reasons government today is slow to react to things like the health care crisis is because they have no longer have anyone grinding through any of the data. When I was at welfare and met with the budget office, there would be 40 people there, most of whom went to Harvard or MIT. It used to be that a lot more people had a foot in the government and university camps. For a variety of reasons, those connections now are harder to make and maintain." - From Private Loss, Public Gain: A paper from Harvard University's Kenndey School of Government
Nominating Speech:
Nominated by: Progressive Government Institute
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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Labor will
Strongly support the right to organize collectively and the right to strike;
Support the living wage, so workers will earn enough to live in a reasonable work week;
Strongly enforce workplace safety;
Explore appropriate public works programs, with the government as employer of last resort;
Work with employers to instill the value that workers are stakeholders whose years of labor cannot be cast aside merely for the pursuit of efficiency or profit.
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