Bill Fletcher Jr. is a longtime trade unionist, writer and speaker. He was also a president of TransAfrica Forum, chairperson of the board of directors of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, and co-coordinator of the Campaign to End the Moroccan Occupation of Western Sahara. He is a member of the International Work Team of Liberation Road. He has written and edited several books, including Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice (with Fernando Gapasin, University of California Press, 2009) and the murder mystery novel The Man Who Fell From the Sky (Hardball Press, 2018) and its forthcoming sequel.