FORMER SECRETARY-TREASURER, TRANSPORTATION TRADES DEPT., AFL-CIO

Michael A. Ingrao retired on November 1, 2007 as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), a Washington, D.C.-based labor organization representing several million workers in the private and public sectors of the aviation, mass transit, rail, trucking, highway, longshore, maritime and related industries. TTD is the transportation policy and legislative arm of its parent organization, the National AFL-CIO, which represents more than ten million workers in the United States. Immediately prior to his election as Secretary-Treasurer in the fall of 2003 by the TTD Executive Committee, Ingrao served as TTD Chief of Staff since joining the Department in December 1999.

Upon retirement, Ingrao established his consulting firm, MAI & Associates. Currently, Ingrao is serving TTD, as well as other non-profit organizations, consulting on political and legislative matters. Over the last 17 plus years, Ingrao also has represented over well over a dozen Republican pro-labor Members of the U.S. House of Representatives (currently working with Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Don Bacon, Mike Lawler, Mike Turner, Chris Smith and Rob Bresnahan) as well as the Republican Main Street Partnership, and in that role works to build common ground between unions and moderate Republican Members.

In the spring of 2017, Ingrao was honored by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association with their annual “Timmy” Outstanding Achievement Award for establishing and managing for six election cycles NATCA’s retiree political program known in NATCA circles as the “Boots on the Ground”.

As TTD’s chief financial officer, Ingrao directed the Department’s daily financial and administrative activities including the organization’s per capita dues structure and tracking, human resource functions, and investment strategy and decisions. He also managed TTD’s grassroots member contact and political programs and was the Treasurer of TTD-PAC, the political action committee of the Department.

Ingrao was TTD’s chief spokesperson on longshore and maritime issues and policies. Most notably, he was deeply involved in transportation labor’s legislative and policy efforts on the development of transportation worker identification cards (TWIC) and the related criminal background check process required to obtain these credentials.

Prior to joining TTD, Ingrao spent 17 years in the Political Department of the National AFL-CIO, the last 11 as National Budget Coordinator. While at the AFL-CIO he also served as a Pension Trustee for the staff retirement plan from 1991 to 1995. In 1996, he moved from the AFL-CIO to the National Council of Senior Citizens (NCSC), a labor-based non-profit senior citizens advocacy organization, as its Deputy Executive Director, managing that organization’s day-to-day operations and its 125+ staff members. In late 1997, Ingrao joined the Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association (MEBA) and spent two and half years as Assistant to the President and Political Director prior to starting at TTD in 1999.

After retirement, Ingrao served as the Vice President of the AFL-CIO Retiree Association for six years where he served as the non-voting liaison for retired employees to the AFL-CIO Pension Plan Trustees.

Ingrao earned a B.A. in 1976 from the University of Richmond and an M.A. in Industrial Psychology in 1979 from George Mason University. He resides in St. Petersburg, FL.

May 2025