Officers re-elected to lead Missouri AFL-CIO

New officers leading the Missouri State AFL-CIO elected by acclamation for a four-year term at last week’s state convention in St. Louis are:
• President Jake Hummel, IBEW 1, St. Louis.
• Secretary-Treasurer Merri Berry, UFCW 655, St. Louis.
• Vice President Reginald Thomas, Laborers 264, Kansas City.

EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS
From St. Louis
• Kim Bartholomew, president, UNITE HERE 74.
• David Cook, president, UFCW 655.
• Brandon Flinn, business manager, Missouri-Kansas Laborers District Council.
• Frank Jacobs, business manager, IBEW 1
• Brian Jennewein, business manager, Bricklayers Administrative District Council of Eastern Missouri.
• Lenny Jones, Missouri state director, SEIU Healthcare, SEIU 1.
• Mia King, lead organizer, SEIU 1
• Keith Linderer, business manager, Operating Engineers 148.
• Dave Meinell, Alliance for Retired Americans, IAM Lodge 777.
• Ray Reasons, business manager, Sheet Metal (SMART) 36.
• Michael Ringo, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, IAM Lodge 1345.
• Keith Robinson, chairperson, A. Phillip Randolph Institute St. Louis chapter, CWA 6300.
• Robin Robertson, president, Missouri CLUW, Postal Workers Gateway 8.
• Keena Smith, vice president, AFGE 2192.
• John Stiffler, executive secretary-treasurer, St. Louis Building Trades Council, Insulators 1.
• Gina Walsh, deputy director, Heat & Frost Insulators Labor Management and Cooperative Trust, Insulators 1.
• Dave Weaver, directing business representative, IAM District 9.
• Pat White, president, St. Louis Labor Council, Gas Workers 11-6.
• Mark Woolbright, Int’l. vice president, Fire Fighters 2nd District, Fire Fighters 2665.

From across Missouri
• Joe Capra, IAM Lodge 778, Kansas City.
• Pat Dujakovich, president, Greater Kansas City Labor Council, Fire Fighters 42, Kansas City.
• Stephen Garner, Plumbers & Pipefitters 562, Fulton.
• Amber Gibson, union rep., Seafarers Int’l. Union, Kansas City.
• Mark Hager, Int’l. vice president, IBEW Dist. 11, Kansas City.
• Jason Hayden, director, MO SMART Transportation Division, Jefferson City.
• Jeff Hayes, CWA Dist. 6 lead organizer, CWA 6360, Independence.
• Alise Martiny, business manager, Kansas City Building Trades Council, Cement Masons 518.
• Jessica Podhola, president, Kansas City chapter CLUW, director, governmental affairs, Painters Dist. Council 3, Kansas City.
• Greg Tate Jr., staff rep., United Steel Workers 348, Kansas City.