Career Brief
Joslyn N. Williams is the first African-American president of the Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO, having been elected initially in 1982 and every three years since. Formerly, he had been the director of AFSCME Council 26, and, as an employee at the Library of Congress, had increased membership in their union threefold.

He served as the assistant director of the AFL-CIO Department of Field Mobilization, is a member of the AFL-CIO Central Labor Council Advisory Committee, and is the regional director of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.

He is a labor member of the Workforce Investment Council in DC, and is on the board of the local National Conference for Community and Justice, DC Jobs with Justice, the ACLU of the National Capital Area, and the DC Convention and Tourism Bureau.

Other Activities
He has served in the District of Columbia as a member of many boards and commissions including the Tax Revision Commission, the Unemployment Compensation Study Commission, and commissions which developed proposals for health care coverage, telecommunications and cable television and the convention center. He served as an election observer for the first universal elections in South Africa, and has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Central America representing the AFL-CIO. He is a native of Jamaica.