Becky Moeller

Bio

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Becky Moeller is the newly elected president of the Texas AFL-CIO, overseeing the 220,000-member labor federation’s legislative, political education and community service programs.

Moeller, 58, is the first woman to hold statewide elected office in the Texas AFL-CIO, having broken that barrier in 2003 when she became secretary-treasurer. During her four-year term in that office, she brought efficiencies and oversight to the state federation budget that kept programs going even after the departure of a substantial chunk of membership from the AFL-CIO umbrella. She also worked with President Emmett Sheppard to build new revenue sources.

With Emmett Sheppard, Moeller introduced a new political education program that enabled organized labor in Texas to contact union members in get-out-the-vote campaigns more effectively. The program helped produce substantial gains for labor-backed candidates in the Legislature and Congress. Moeller has also traveled the state to promote unions and assist in a variety of worker actions.

Before coming to the Texas AFL-CIO, Moeller was president of the Communications Workers of America Local 6137, the Corpus Christi local representing workers at SBC (now AT&T).

In that union, Moeller served in several capacities, including job steward, chief steward, Executive Board member, vice president and secretary-treasurer, after going to work for the company and union in 1967.

Moeller has also served as President of the Coastal Bend Labor Council and as a member of the Texas AFL-CIO Executive Board. For several years, Moeller chaired the Texas AFL-CIO Scholarship Committee.

Among her public service activities, Moeller served on her local United Way Board of Governors, the Corpus Christi Workforce Development Board and a number of voter registration drives. She also served, under an appointment by Gov. Ann Richards, as Chair of the commission that oversees the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

Moeller is the mother of Kristie Moeller Veit and stepmother of Misty Moeller. She has five granddaughters.

History

Member for

17 years 36 weeks