Brooks Sunkett returned from service in Vietnam, went to college, and began work in the New Jersey Department of Taxation where he joined the CWA campaign to organize state workers. After CWA won representation of New Jersey state worker units, Sunkett became president of the newly formed Local 1033. In 1989 he was elected vice-president of the CWA Public Workers Department, becoming the first African-American to serve on the CWA executive board. Sunkett chaired the CWA Civil and Human Rights Committee and led the union’s programs to support the CWA public and health care worker units until his retirement in 2019.
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