Kim Cook

Kim Cook is the past President of SEIU Local 925, a local of 26,000 child care and public sector workers in Washington State. She began her work as a member activist of 9to5, a pre-union clerical workers association, was hired as an organizer in 1984 and organized workers around the country for 7 years. She moved into an Organizer/Representative position in Seattle, Organizing Director, Regional Director and was then elected President in 2001. She was elected to the SEIU International Executive Board and two years later to International Vice-President. In 2010 she was hired to build and lead a new department at SEIU - Member Leaders in Action. She has worked for OPEIU, AAUP, Working America of the AFL-CIO and retired as an Associate at the Cornell Worker Institute in New York City. Cook was also featured in the documentary 9to5: The Story of a Movement for her instrumental work in the nationwide organizing of women office workers.