Dennis Martire’s Leadership in the Union Has Been Essential for Members

Dennis Martire has been a happy and very active member of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) for several decades. In addition to managing their Mid-Atlantic Region for LiUNA, Dennis Martire also serves on a wide range of boards and committees, including the American High-Speed Rail Alliance Advisory Board, the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Maryland Transportation Funding, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), and the Dulles Area Transportation Authority.

Since he started with LiUNA in 1990, Dennis Martire has emerged as a leader on a large number of successful LiUNA initiatives, such as the instrumental role he played in the process that gave workers on Fluor-Lane’s expansion of Route 495 Hot Lanes Project a choice on whether to join a union. That was a critical initiative, since those workers voted overwhelmingly to be members of LiUNA Local 11, in one of the most impressive union victories in the construction industry in the state of Virginia to happen in many years.He is still a proud member of LiUNA Local #1058 out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dennis Martire is also tightly involved with the Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA), he serves as a Trustee for the Mid-Atlantic Laborers’ Employers Cooperation and Education Trust (MALECET), and he serves as Chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Organizing Coalition (MAROC), and Chairman of the Performance Management Committee, as well as a Committee Member for the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board, Board Member (PA WIB), among many others Dennis currently lives in Northern Virginia with his family. An educated man, Dennis Martire obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Government in 1986 from West Virginia Wesleyan College.