Amber Miller

Amber Miller has been a dues-paying USW member since her teens, stepping straight from her high school graduation into a summer job at the Chase Brass mill in Montpelier, Ohio.

On March 1, 2026, she joined the USW executive board as International Vice President at Large. In that role, she oversees Rapid Response – the union’s member-driven education and legislative program – and co-chairs the USW chemical and public sectors.

A native of nearby Pioneer in northwest Ohio, Miller grew up in a USW household, with parents, a stepfather and a brother who also worked as rank-and-file Steelworkers at the mill over the years.

Miller landed a full-time job at Chase in 2000 and became active in Local 7248 right away, helping to establish an award-winning Rapid Response program from the ground up. She served as recording secretary and local president before joining the USW staff in 2012.

Miller became the union’s national Rapid Response coordinator 2013 and served in that role until 2019, when she became director of the program. As director, she led USW members to some of their most important grassroots victories, such as the passage of the Butch Lewis Act in 2021, which preserved the pensions of millions of Americans, including more than 100,000 USW members.

Through her work with Rapid Response, Miller has helped workers defeat union-busting initiatives and advocate for the union’s core values, such as health and safety, retirement security, affordable health care and union rights.
A graduate of the Harvard Trade Union program, the National Labor Leadership Initiative and the USW Leadership-Scholarship program, Miller also took part in the inaugural Workers Uniting Exchange Program in 2011 with the USW’s partners in Great Britain and Ireland.

As a local labor leader in Ohio, Miller served as vice president of Williams County Central Labor Council, as recording secretary for her local chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women and as a delegate to the Northwest Ohio Labor Federation.