Greg Tarpinian

Greg Tarpinian is nationally known expert on the economics of the labor market and labor unions and is a consultant to labor and political leaders throughout North America. He is the President of The Tarpinian Group, which provides unions with customized strategic and communications options for a wide variety of International labor unions. Prior to the formation of the Tarpinian Group in 2009, Tarpinian was the founding Executive Director of the Change to Win labor federation. For the 25 years prior to that he was the Executive Director of the Labor Research Association, and President of LRA Consulting.

Mr. Tarpinian’s articles have appeared in major newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to the Los Angeles Times. He is quoted as an expert source in newspapers from Barron's to the New York Times. He is also a frequent guest on labor and economics issues for a wide variety of American network news programs including the CBS Evening News, CNBC, CNN, the NBC's Today Show and many others.

Mr. Tarpinian did his graduate work in economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he received his Masters Degree and completed course work and comprehensive examinations for the PhD.