Rick Levy

President, Texas AFL-CIO

Rick Levy is the President of the Texas AFL-CIO, a position he was elected to in 2017. As President, Rick has focused on helping to build a broader, bolder and more inclusive labor movement, and weaving a culture of solidarity to address the challenges faced by working people in Texas.

Under his tenure, the Federation has led the fight against legislative and political attacks on the labor movement, supported organizing new unions across Texas, and introduced and broadened significant initiatives to build worker power in Texas, including the Texas Climate Jobs Project, a project that engages the labor movement in Texas to solve the climate crisis and to create good, union jobs that benefit workers and our communities in the process. He is a 37 year member of TSEU/CWA 6186.