About Us

The Western Massachusetts Area Labor Federation is a coalition of more than 60 local unions from across Western Massachusetts dedicated to building power and a better world for all working people. We bring together workers and leaders from different unions, trades, and towns to build a stronger and more unified voice for the more than 50,000 union members and the hundreds of thousands of non-union workers across Western Massachusetts. The WMALF brings people together, turns union members out in solidarity with each other’s fights, makes political endorsements, gets out the vote, and helps coordinate multiple union campaigns. We are committed to working together to build grassroots power, coordinating work on common campaigns, and pooling our resources to maximize the Labor Movement’s effectiveness throughout Western Massachusetts. 

The WMALF is dedicated to the more effective organization of working people; to the securing to them of full recognition and enjoyment of the rights which they are justly entitled; to the achievement of ever higher standards of living and working conditions; to the attainment of  good health, quality education, and security for all people; to the enjoyment of the leisure which their skills make possible; and to the strengthening and extension of our way of life and the fundamental freedoms to which all are entitled and which are the basis of a democratic society.

WMALF Staff: 

Ian Rhodewalt, Field Organizer, organizer@wmalf.org, 413-687-9670

Leia Wilson, Administrative Assistant, admin@wmalf.org, 413-732-7970

The Western Mass Area Labor Federation’s Executive Board: 

Jeff Jones, WMALF President, UFCW 1459

Tina Simmerman, Interim Treasurer, SEIU 509

Ethel Everett, President of the Pioneer Valley Labor Assembly, SEIU 509

Rose Bookbinder, President of the Hampshire/Franklin Labor Assembly, MNA

Patrick Burke, UAW 2322

Amy Calandrella, Operating Engineers Local 98

Nicholas Chavez, AFSCME 1776

Kindalay Cummings-Akers, 1199 SEIU

Karla Fitch-Mitchell, AFSCME 17

Ruth Jennison, Massachusetts Society of Professors - MTA

Iris Scott, UFCW 1459

Christopher Tyrrell, SMART 352

Kevin Young, Massachusetts Society of Professors – MTA 

Brian Stanton, Trustee, IBEW 2324

Jerry Levinsky, Trustee, Massachusetts Society of Professors - MTA

Pete White, Trustee, SEIU 509