Tula Connell, managing editor of the AFL-CIO website, www.aflcio.org and AFL-CIO Now blog, www.aflcio.org/blog, has worked as a writer and editor in the union movement for the past 19 years. Connell got her first union card while working her way through college as a banquet bartender for the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.

Michael Whitney is an online organizer with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Michael manages the online campaign for the Employee Free Choice Act as part of SEIU's Change that Works program. He got his start in online politics on Howard Dean's presidential campaign as one of the co-founders of Generation Dean, a web-based youth outreach organization. Michael is a contributor to techPresident.com, the Huffington Post, and his overly active Twitter feed.