John Green (November 15, 1896 – February 20, 1957) was a Scottish-born American labor union leader.
He settled in Camden, New Jersey, and became a sheet metalworker at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation.
This rapidly grew, and in 1935, it became the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, with Green elected as its founding president.
[2] Green affiliated the new union with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and he became a vice-president of the federation.
[2] In 1945, Green represented the CIO at the founding conference of the World Federation of Trade Unions, in London.