Founding Board Member
WW=P, Inc.

Debbie Timko served briefly as a member of the Board of Directors for WW=P,Inc., when her job took her to Washington, D.C. She previously served on the Economic Sufficiency Task Force that prepared for the March 2005 convention, she presented “Family Work Policies” with John Noreika at the convention and also served early on in the initiative’s Kitchen Cabinet.

Debbie Timko is a Nuclear Medicine Technologist who began her career in the Labor Movement by watching the restructuring of the health care industry begin in the early 1980’s with the invention of Diagnostic Related Groups or DRGs.

She knew that both patients and workers would need advocates for what was about to happen in the industry. She knew she wanted to fight and could make a difference.

Timko learned her first lessons about labor in crisis as a teenager. When Youngstown, Ohio’s steel industry crashed in the late 70’s, her family lost their home and their dairy store. After scaling back medical school plans for a career in Nuclear Medicine, Timko was drawn to her hospital’s union activities and headed back to school. She has a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and Undergraduate Degrees in Labor Relations, Economics, Labor Studies and Nuclear Medicine Technology.

She was profiled in the Milwaukee Business Journal’s 40 under 40, 40 professionals under 40 years old in Milwaukee who are making a difference in their organization and their community.

Debbie spent a decade organizing thousands of health care workers in locals throughout the country for the International union before coming to Local 150 in 1998.

Timko feels a great responsibility to be a leader who brings other leaders up and encourages people to take risks.
 

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