JOHN L. REVITTE, Michigan State University (MSU) Professor of Work, Leisure and Labor Studies, was named the university’s Faculty Grievance Official (FGO) following approval by the MSU Board of Trustees on Friday, February 13, 2004. Revitte was hired by MSU’s School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SLIR) as an LIR Instructor in 1977. For SLIR’s Labor Education Program he has designed over 555 courses and conferences, and taught over 4,000 instructional hours, primarily non-credit, for Michigan labor union leaders on collective bargaining, dispute resolution and grievance handling, employment and labor laws, labor history and current events, and union administration and leadership skills. He also taught thirteen semesters in the SLIR graduate school: American Labor History; Collective Bargaining; Trade Union History, Structure and Administration; and Workers' Education and Training in LIR, as well as a couple Freshman Seminars for the Provost’s Office on Work and Leisure: Changing Definitions; and Sweatshops, Strikes and Students: Seeking Justice at Work. Besides activity as FGO, Revitte provides active service to MSU, his field and the general public; writes training materials, grant proposals, articles, monographs, book and film reviews; co-authored and produced several Michigan labor history videos; and he is often interviewed on historic and current labor events by television, radio and newspaper journalists.  Revitte studied at the University of Michigan’s Residential College, graduating in 1972, and in 1976 he received a Master of Science in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Revitte can be reached at MSU at W38 Owen Grad Center, East Lansing, Michigan 48825-1109, or by phone: 517-353-8884, FAX: 517-432-2487, by e-mail: revitte@msu.edu (or fgo@msu.edu), or via the web www.msu.edu/~revitte (or www.msu.edu/~fgo).