Michael Sacco

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Michael Sacco is the president of the Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL-CIO. He was elected to the position by the SIUNA Executive Board in June, 1988. Since 1988, Sacco has also served as president of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, a post he was re-elected to in 2005. In November, 1991, he was elected a vice-president of the AFL-CIO.

Sacco was born February 14, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1954 to 1958. He joined the SIU and shipped aboard numerous US-flagged merchant vessels from 1958 until the 1960's, when he came ashore to serve in a variety of union posts. From 1968 to 1979 he was vice president of the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, the union's vocational training facility in Piney Point, MD.

From 1980 to 1988, Sacco was vice president of the SIUNA-affiliated Seafarers International Union; Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. He was also secretary-treasurer of the Greater St. Louis Area and Vicinity Port Council and an executive board member of the Missouri State AFL-CIO.

Sacco is married and has five children[1].