Bio:
Anna Burger is both a top ranking officer at the Service Employees International Union and the first chair of America’s newest labor federation, Change to Win, founded in September 2005 by SEIU and six other major unions representing six million workers. A longtime strategist who oversees SEIU's national political operations, Burger directed the grassroots program that helped pro-worker candidates win in Congress in 2006, and the largest mobilization by any single organization in the history of U.S. politics in 2004. Burger began her career in 1972 as a rank-and-file Pennsylvania state caseworker and union activist before her election as SEIU Local 668’s first female president. She later became SEIU's national field director. She has been an active delegate to the Democratic National Convention since 1984 and has worked on the party's platform. She resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Earl F. Gohl, Jr., and has one daughter.
