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Kent Miller
The Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council has appointed Kent Miller as its next president and business manager.
Miller is succeeding John Schmitt, who plans to retire on Aug. 31.
Miller is among the third generation of his family to be members of the Laborers’ International Union of North America. He started in landscaping in 2003 and became a topman and pipelayer for RG Huston Company in 2004. He later took a job at Speedway Sand and Gravel, where he worked in the field for four years.
Miller became a marketing representative for the LIUNA Great Lakes Region in 2012. In this role, he was later hired as the assistant business manager of the Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council in 2015 and became the LIUNA International Representative overseeing the compliance of all national collective bargaining agreements in Wisconsin in 2018.
Miller is a native of Madison and will continue to work out of the Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council office in DeForest. The Wisconsin Laborers’ District Council is an affiliation of five Laborer local unions, representing nearly 9,000 construction craft laborers throughout Wisconsin.
