Background
Burger, born in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and daughter of a disabled truck driver and a nurse, began her activist career in 1972 as a welfare worker
Burger, born in Levittown, Pennsylvania, and daughter of a disabled truck driver and a nurse, began her activist career in 1972 as a welfare worker
Bachelor in Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 1972.
In February 2009, Burger was appointed as a member to the President"s Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the president and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America"s economic downturn. Foreign 2011 she was a Fellow at Harvard University"s Advanced Leadership Initiative. lieutenant was there she became involved in her local union.
Burger organized a walkout in efforts to create a safer working environment for the office.
Burger became more active in her union, and quickly moved through the ranks of the local union. Burger became SEIU local 668"s first full-time woman president before moving onto the SEIU International office in Washington, District of Columbia, to work as National Director of Field Operations, under former SEIU president John Sweeney.
Burger successfully ran Sweeney"s campaign for president of the American Federation of Labor-Congress-Chief Information Officer. She was elected Executive Vice President of SEIU, and Secretary-Treasurer in 2001, and announced her retirement on August 11, 2010. In her tenure at SEIU, Burger has worked with President Andy Stern to create the largest and fastest growing union in North America.
While union membership across the country has been continually dropping, SEIU is the only union that has continuously grown.
As well, Burger and SEIU are working to create ties with unions in other parts of the world, especially Europe and Asia. Burger and Stern called for a change in the American Federation of Labor-Congress-Chief Information Officer"s strategies in June 2004. On September 27, 2005, Burger was elected Chair of the breakaway coalition.
In December 2009, the conservative Americans for Tax Reform organization formally requested a federal investigation of Burger, claiming that she is an unregistered lobbyist, in violation of the Lobbyist Disclosure Acting.
However, upon investigating the matter, the United States. Senate Secretary found the alleged charge of Burger as a federal lobbyist to be false, and closed her office"s file on the matter. Burger is married to Earl F. Gohl and they have one daughter, Erin.
Anna Burger currently lives in Washington, District of Columbia with her family.
Active delegate Democratic National Convention, since 1984.
Married Earl F. Gohl. 1 child Erin Burger Gohl.