MDP Leadership Team

Mark Brewer, Chair
Tina Abbott, First Vice Chair
Lupe Ramos-Montigny, Second Vice Chair
Ismael Ahmed, Third Vice Chair
Rosa Holliday, Recording and Corresponding Secretary
Ramesh Verma, Treasurer

Tina Abbott, First Vice Chair

In 1973, Abbott took a job with the State of Michigan. In 1985, members of Abbott's bargaining unit voted to join the United Auto Workers and became part of a new local, UAW Local 6000. She served as chief steward through 1994, was a servicing representitive for four years and served as administrative assistant to UAW Local 6000's president.

Abbott was involved in many union activities including serving as CAP and T.O.P. delegate, member of Local 6000 Civil Rights Committee, member of the bargaining team, and chair of the women's committee. She also served as activities chair for the women's committee of UAW Region 1A, as UAW-CAP secretary of the 14th District from 1997 to 1998, and then as 14th District chair in 1998.

In conjunction with the UAW organizing Department, Abbott and other UAW organizers, along with representitives of the Teamsters, Operating Engineers and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, organized workers at the MGM Grand Casino in Detroit.

Abbott graduated from Wayne State University's Labor School in 1986, and in 1996 received a liberal arts degree from Wayne County Community College. She is a lifetime member of the NAACP and served on the Detroit chapter's board from 1996-97. Abbott also is a Democratic Party precinct delegate and serves on the party's State Central Committee.

Abbott is married and has three children and four grandchildren, and lives in Detroit.

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