Gumpert has a lifelong passion for labor justice and has spent the past 16 years working in some of the most high-profile fights in the labor movement. This includes serving as National Press Secretary for UNITE HERE during the historic national Marriott strike in 2018, lobbying on behalf of AFSCME International to win collective bargaining rights for 40,000 Nevada state employees, and directing communications for the largest nurses’ union in the Pacific Northwest during the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Most recently, she worked in private practice performing crisis communications for the largest statewide education union in Oregon, managing all union strike, crisis, and strike-track communications across nearly 200 school districts as well as directing the union’s statewide response to ICE raids that targeted schools.
Gumpert has been a strong admirer of IAM Union since she first began working in coalition with them and the IAM Communications Department in 2017, during her time at UNITE HERE. Her IAM connections run deep – she also spent the past four years helping to direct communications for the successful, historic IAM campaign to unionize rideshare drivers in Massachusetts, and helped lead communications for IAM’s groundbreaking Pharmacy Guild campaign until several years ago.
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