Chris Dols, Co-Executive Director
Organizing and Networkbuilding

Chris Dols is a prominent union leader at the forefront of worker organizing. After eight years of engineering experience in coastal and harbor dredging, drilling and blasting, he served as cost engineer and value officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New York where he was elected President of IFPTE Local 98. Chris is a founding organizer of the Federal Unionists Network, which has organized mass actions to defend federal workers’ rights across the country. 

Chris was also the re-founding publisher of Science for the People, an important New Left science magazine originally published from 1970-1989.  A dedicated labor advocate, Chris has become a visible voice in national debates— with regular media appearances warning that threats to federal unions endanger democracy and public services for all Americans. His work centers on organizing federal employees and allies to resist authoritarian attacks, build solidarity, and safeguard the public interest. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin College of Engineering.