Javier Morillo-Alicea
Javier Morillo-Alicea is the former president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 26, which unites more than 5,000 property service workers in the Twin Cities metro area. As president, he leads the organizing, legislative and political activities of the local union representing Minnesota’s union janitors and private security guards. Since Morillo was elected president, SEIU Local 26 has grown by roughly 1,200 members, including over 700 private security officers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Local In addition, the local has participated in national campaigns, including traveling to Houston to support 5,000 newly united janitors. As a leader in the immigrant rights movement, Morillo has stood up to Republican attacks on immigrants in the state, In 2019 Morillo stepped down after 14 yars as President to join the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations as a Minnesota-based program fellow. Morillo was previously a historian and anthropologist, teaching courses in Latin American History, Comparative Colonial Cultures, and Globalization at Carleton and Macalester College. He is a Fulbright Scholar and has a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Yale University. He lives on the West Side of St. Paul with his partner of thirteen years.