About Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller has stood with the labor and civil rights movements as an activist, advisor, and attorney for decades. He was successful in establishing the right of retired workers to draw workers’ compensation benefits. He represented employees in a case against the Ex-Cell-O company that took 12 years to litigate and resulted in awards to the plaintiffs in excess of 3 million dollars. He won an award in an arbitration case for 14 million dollars. He has also won other cases in the millions. He has been involved in litigation throughout the country on behalf of unions and worker rights. He has been listed as Best Lawyers in the United States and is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He has been honored by either serving or having served as General Counsel of the Metro AFL-CIO, the Michigan AFL-CIO, Labor’s Hall of Fame, The A. Phillip Randolph Institute, the Sam Fishman Memorial Scholarship Fund and sat on the Lawyers Advisory Panel to the AFL-CIO. In fact, Mr. Miller has recently been appointed as the General Counsel for the Metro AFL-CIO.

In the fight for civil rights as attorney for the Detroit Branch NAACP, he was successful in protecting citizens from police abuse, caused the first agreement for goals and timetables at First Federal Savings and Loan Association resulting in the first integration of the downtown banking community, outlawed the notorious Poindexter Homeowner’s Ordinance which was designed to segregate the City of Detroit and won many other fights and victories in the struggle for civil rights.

Standing with labor and the civil rights community, Miller has held a number of positions in the Michigan Democratic Party: precinct delegate, Treasurer 13th Congressional District; Chairman, of Wayne County Democratic Committee; Officer at Large of the Michigan Democratic Party, and member of the Rules Committee at National Democratic Conventions.

He has authored law review articles, written a pro-labor column at the Detroit News until the strike, and lectured on matters near and dear to the labor and civil rights community.