Daniel H. La Botz (born August 9, 1945) is an American labor union activist, academic, journalist, and author.
He was a co-founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) and has written extensively on worker rights in the United States and Mexico.
La Botz ran in 2010 for a seat in the United States Senate for the Socialist Party.
La Botz was born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up outside San Diego, California.
[3] When he was in college, he opposed the American involvement in the Vietnam War and supported the United Farm Workers.