OFFICER ELECTION RESULTS
President
Mike Kane (Laborers Local 1290)
Vice-President
Luke Moylan (Pipefitters Local 533)
Sec. Treasurer
Robert Wing (IAFF Local 64)
Trustees
J.J. Simma (IAFF Local 64)
Ralph Oropeza (KC Building Trades)
Steve Gercone (Roofers Local 20)
Joe Logsdon (Roofers Local 20)
Greg Chastain (SMART Local 2)
Dontay Wilson (UAW Local 31)
Jeff Philgreen (Laborers Local 1290)
Amber Gibson (Seafarers)
Wade Kiefer (IBEW Local 124)
Greg Lynch (Sprinkerfitters Local 314)
Laqueeta Manning (USW Local 13)
Jeanette Brown (Laborers Local 1290)
Andy Martin (IUOE Local 101)
What is the Tri-County Labor Council of Eastern Kansas?
The Tri-County Labor Council of Eastern Kansas is the Central Labor Council for Wyandotte, Leavenworth, and Johnson County in Kansas and is under the Kansas State AFL-CIO. The Kansas State AFL-CIO is the state federation of labor representing over 85,000 members of 300 unions througout Kansas. The other two central labor councils in Kansas are the Topeka Federation of Labor and the Wichita- Hutchinson Labor Federation.
The mission of the Kansas AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our state and the nation. To accomplish this mission, they work to:
Build a broad movement of Kansas workers by helping workers join and form unions.
Support Kansas workers as they bargain with employers to improve their living conditions and workplaces, as well as their communities, state and nation.
Strengthen the voice of Kansas working families at all levels of government and in a changing global economy.
The Kansas AFL-CIO is a key part of the nation’s largest and strongest labor federation—the AFL-CIO, which unites 12.5 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life.
The Tri-County Labor Council of Eastern Kansas is on the forefront of fighting for union members of all walks of life in Eastern Kansas.
Tristin Amezcua-Hogan is the Editor of The Labor Beacon and a member of LIUNA Local 264. Tristin also serves as the Director of Communications for the Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO and the Chair of the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance.
Tristin grew up as the son of a UA Local 669 member in Tecumseh, KS and the great-nephew of George C. Amis, longtime leader of the United Rubberworkers (now USW Local 307) in Kansas. Growing up in rural Kansas as the child of teen parents, Tristin quickly came to appreciate the life-changing benefit of a union job.
Tristin and his partner, Rebeca Amezcua-Hogan, are residents of the Westside, Kansas City, MO's historic Mexican neighborhood. They are proud members of Kansas City's New Reform Temple.
