Matt Ginsburg is General Counsel of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of 58 national and international unions representing over 12 million working people.
Matt’s work at the AFL-CIO has focused on traditional labor law, new forms of worker representation, and the rights of immigrant workers, as well as all aspects of the governance of the Federation. He has regularly briefed and argued cases on behalf of unions and workers in the federal courts of appeals and presented the AFL-CIO’s view on important workplace legal issues to the Supreme Court in amicus curiae briefs.
Matt is a graduate of the New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar. He clerked for Judge Diane P. Wood of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Matt was a union organizer for several years prior to becoming a lawyer.