 “If you don’t exercise your rights,” says K-I-M Region 6 National Business Agent Pat Carroll, “you will surely lose them.” And with more than 25 years of leadership experience in the NALC, Carroll has certainly given his rights as a career letter carrier and union member an effective workout.
Carroll was elected Region 6 NBA by acclamation at the 2006 Las Vegas Convention. The member of South Macomb, Michigan Branch 4374 had been appointed to fill that position when it came open in January 2005, with the office becoming the latest in a long line of leadership roles the letter carrier has held in his 30-plus years of postal employment.
“I saw the way management mistreated letter carriers, and I felt I would do whatever I could to stop abusive managers,” Carroll said, explaining why he pursued branch and eventually national union office. “I saw how hard we letter carriers work, and how management failed to recognize and appreciate our efforts.”
The future NBA held a number of elected positions in Branch 4374, including steward, chief steward, sergeant-at-arms, editor and treasurer, before beginning a 10-year run as branch secretary in 1981. In 1991, he was elected branch president, and held that office until his 2002 appointment as Region 6 Regional Administrative Assistant.
Carroll has two primary goals in serving the members of the Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan region. “The first is to stop abusive managers and make the workplace a safe and harmonious place without threats and intimidation by management,” he said. “The second goal is to provide education and training to branch leaders and members to make them more aware of their rights.”
Carroll attended Eastern Michigan University and Lawrence Institute of Technology. Heand his wife, Grace, have two children: an adult daughter, Lisa, and a teenage son, Christopher.
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REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS
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Troy Clark
Jeff Fultz |
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