Vice President - Central Labor Council

Clark grew up in Des Moines, Iowa and was active as a teenager in the civil rights and anti-war movements. He, with a friend, was an organizer of the black arm band protest at Roosevelt High School in 1965. As an adult he lived in Kansas City, Missouri for seven years where 3 of his 4 children were born. He worked at the National Can Company, which was organized by the Steelworkers and where he was a union steward for several years before the plant closed. 

Moving back to Iowa, Clark was hired at the Dubuque Post Office in 1978 and has worked there ever since. He became a steward in the APWU around 1980 and became local president in 1981. Except for a period of a year or two, Clark has been the local president of the Dubuque Local APWU for about 28 years. He was elected State President of the Iowa Postal Workers Union in 1988 and served in that position for 20 years. He has served as an Arbitration Advocate for the national APWU and has been appointed to various national union committees. Clark also serves as the President of the Dubuque Federation of Labor.