Friday morning general session.

Tim Burga was unanimously re-elected as Ohio AFL-CIO President 2022, a seat he has held since January 2011. The Ohio AFL-CIO represents over 1 million union workers and retirees from 40 international unions in the public, private and federal sectors of employment. Tim is a third-generation member of the United Steelworkers and grandson of a union coalminer. 

Tim also serves as the Vice Chairman of “We Are Ohio,” the non-profit organization designed to promote issues of social, civic, and economic justice.  He is also President of the Central Region State Officers of the AFL-CIO.  

As President, Tim oversaw the federation’s statewide campaign to place a referendum on the ballot to overturn Senate Bill 5, and th.e election to defeat Issue 2 to preserve collective bargaining rights for Ohio’s public employees.

Tim began as  the Ohio AFL-CIO Legislative Director in 2002.He led the successful effort to pass State Issue 2 as a Constitutional Amendment to raise Ohio’s minimum wage/cost of living index. He also managed the successful legislative campaign to create Ohio’s Best Rx, a discount drug program for seniors and the underinsured.