Three Executive Officers and a twenty-nine person Executive Board govern the Greater Boston Labor Council. The Executive-Board’s role is to discuss and debate public policy and to adopt or reject positions on issues that come before the Greater Boston Labor Council. The Board also has oversight of the GBLC’s finances. The twenty-nine-member board includes representatives from a wide cross section of the Greater Boston Labor Movement.  The GBLC also has three elected auditors whose role is to review the council’s annual audit, which is performed by a certified public accountant.

 The three elected officers are Executive Secretary-Treasurer, President and Vice-President. The Executive Secretary-Treasurer serves as the principal officer of the GBLC. The duties include spearheading support and to serve as the spokesperson for issues and positions adopted by the AFL-CIO and the GBLC Executive-Board and to organize the Counci'ls monthly meetings and events.

Rich Rogers, the Executive Secretary-Treasurer is a long-time member of UFCW Local 1459 and a member of Painters Local 391. Secretary-Treasurer Rogers was elected in January of 2003 to four-year term.  Prior to his election, Rogers served on the staff of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO for twenty-one years including twelve years as the state federation's political director. He currently serves as Chairman of Community Labor United, a dynamic coalition of major Boston area unions and community organizations working together on a broad economic justice agenda. Rogers also has been a long time board member of the Massachusetts Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.

The President of the GBLC serves as presiding officer at the GBLC meetings and is the appointing authority for all committees established by the GBLC.  Louis Mandarini, the Business Manger of Laborers Local 22, was re-elected to a second full four-year term to the GBLC Presidency in January of 2006.   President Mandarini holds a number of other important labor positions including Secretary-Treasurer of the Massachusetts Building Trades Council and the Executive Board of the Massachusetts Laborers District Council.

The Vice-President’s post is held by Patricia Armstrong, the Political Director for the Boston Teachers Union.  Vice President Armstrong has been a long-time activist and leader in the Massachusetts Democratic Party as well as serves as the President for the Mass Alliance, a coalition of labor unions and community groups that works to elect progressives to the State Legislature.  

The three Executive Officers work in close collaboration on all GBLC decisions.