Member Spotlight: Brian Wilson

If you've ever flown out of Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), you can thank Brian Wilson and his coworkers for keeping the airport and its runways up and running.

Brian, a Heavy Equipment Training Supervisor at the airport, has worked there for over 15 years and been a supervisor for the last 8 years. Whether it's maintaining the asphalt on the airport's grounds, cutting grass on the airfield, or running the plowing operations to keep runways and taxiways open when it snows, Brian is responsible for training maintenance staff and ensuring they can safely operate the equipment.

"I love the satisfaction of watching people learn something that they didn't know about and the sense of accomplishment they feel after. It's like that feeling teachers get when a kid is kinda down, but then when they get it, there's that huge satisfaction of seeing them be successful," says Brian.

That success is something Brian is also feeling when it comes to securing a union for state supervisors now that an overwhelming majority have chosen AFSCME as their union. "I'm excited that we can have our own voice and be able to negotiate better wages and improve our work environment," says Brian. "The whole experience and organizing process, reaching out to my coworkers and getting their opinions on things, it's all made me excited to fight for changes and make our workplaces better."