Patrick Foote

Patrick Foote

Patrick J. Foote is is a staff contributor at People's World specializing in multi-/social media and outreach strategies. At the University of Central Florida, he worked with the Student Labor Action Project organizing around the intersection of student and worker issues. He would go on to work in the labor movement in such organizations as Central Florida Jobs with Justice, AFSCME Council 79, and UFCW Local 21.

He joined Allison, Slutsky & Kennedy in 2021. Before joining the firm, Patrick worked as a legal fellow in the General Counsel’s Office of the AFL-CIO. There, Patrick contributed to the AFL-CIO’s amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, as well as to multiple amicus briefs before the National Labor Relations Board. He also tracked National Labor Relations Board decisions being appealed to the circuit courts and contributed research and draft language to comments on rule changes by federal agencies.

Patrick graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law with honors in 2020. While in law school, he served as President of the Labor and Employment Law Society, Secretary of the National Lawyers Guild, and as a student editor of the Illinois Public Employee Relations Report.

As one of two law students to ever be awarded three Peggy Browning Fellowships, Patrick worked on an array of issues relevant to workers and unions at the National Federation of Federal Employees, the Chicago News Guild, and Communications Workers of America. Further, Patrick externed for a semester at the Chicago office of the National Treasury Employees Union. In these positions, among other things, Patrick served as second chair in numerous arbitrations; worked on litigation before the National Labor Relations Board, Federal Labor Relations Authority and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; and contributed research and draft language to a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump for his issuance of executive orders targeting federal sector bargaining rights.

Patrick was born in Florida and graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2013. Before law school, Patrick worked as an organizer with Central Florida Jobs with Justice where he organized community support for embattled workers, and then as a labor journalist. He is a proud former member of the Chicago News Guild where he served as chair of his bargaining unit.

Education

Studied Political Science at University of Central Florida, and at Ridgewood High School.

Work

Worked at Student Labor Action Project at UCF, ATU Local 1596 and Committee to Elect Alan Grayson.

Jobs with Justice

In 2013, Patrick Foote joined as Central Florida Jobs with Justice, as Transit Rider Organizer, working directly with Transit Rider Union Orlando or TRU. Foote has been an active leader of the Student Labor Action Project at UCF and taken on mobilizing students for worker rights. He played a key role in planning of actions with National JwJ campaigns including Justice@ Verizon and support for OURWalmart members on Black Friday.

2014 Florida Communist Party state convention

The Communist Party USA, Florida District, a party with a growing presence within the Sunshine State's progressive movement, held its convention in Orlando circa May 2014. This was the first such gathering in the state since 2006.

Patrick Foote, 24, has been a member of the CPUSA for a year, and says that one of the most important areas of struggle for him is advancing the right of workers to organize.

"I believe that capitalism, inevitably, is going to be the death of our species. Economic anarchy will only harm over time," he said, noting the effects of the profit system on the environment and indigenous peoples.

"Building socialism to me is building a plan to feed everyone, house everyone, clothe everyone, and have everyone have a voice" in how society is run, Foote said

Florida comrades

Yennifer Mateo Castillo June 15, 2014 near Chicago, IL:

With Patrick Foote, Marky Dred, Josh Leclair and Eddie Yarbrough.

Young communists

Earchiel Lee Johnson December 19, 2015 ·

With Patrick Morales, Emiliana Sparaco and Patrick Foote.

CPUSA Florida District Forum

CPUSA Florida District Forum Closed Facebook Group, as of June 29, 2017;

This is the OFFICIAL discussion forum for members of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), District of Florida.

Members included Patrick Foote.

New member phone bank

New member phone bank Public · Hosted by Communist Party USA.

Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 11 AM - 4 PM EDT

Your living room

We're organizing a phonebank to our new members on Saturday and we need your help. The callfire service allow you to make the calls from home, using your smartphone, laptop or deskstop. You'll get a real charge from talking to them! Aint' nuthin like it!! Please click "going" if you can make calls! Thanks!

Those invited to participate on on Facebook included Patrick Foote.