Brad Pidgeon - NSW/ACT State Secretary
Bradley Pidgeon is a passionate and enthusiastic trade union leader. As State Secretary of the AMWU, he is responsible for the strategic direction of the NSW & ACT Branch.
Brad has extensive experience in negotiation, campaigning, advocacy, education, and health and safety for the benefit of workers.
Brad has represented AMWU members across the manufacturing, power generation, mining, heavy industry, ship building and construction industries in New South Wales & Western Australia for over 10 years.
Brad is passionate about advocating for renewable and local manufacturing opportunities for New South Wales.
Brad Hattenfels - NSW/ACT Assistant State Secretary
From an apprentice boilermaker in the steel industry in 1982 to Assistant State Secretary in 2024, Brad Hattenfels has never lost focus on the values that define him.
In 2005 he began at the AMWU as an organiser based in our Wollongong office and a lead organiser for southern NSW ACT team in 2012 holding, to this day, positions on State National Councils and State National Conferences. In September 2024, Brad was appointed to the role of NSW/ACT Assistant State Secretary.
Brad has always believed that people in roles as union officers or officials can't do this job unless they have a really good home life as well. Their personal circumstances are important to Brad because if people don't have a healthy work-life balance it will impact them.
Brad worked hard for the Wollongong team instilling a leadership style based on trust - trust that he would never ask anyone to do anything he wouldn't do himself and would never ask someone to do something he didn't think they were capable of. “You can only earn that trust if you're approachable and you care about people. That’s being a good leader - someone the team can trust.”
Brad is strong family person, married for 32 years with children and grandkids and this also comes through in his approach. “I think, rightly or wrongly, I put my family first and the union comes a very close second.
That's me. I want to be approachable to everyone that works in our union. There's nothing hidden from me - it's just who I am.”
Keith Lang - NSW/ACT Branch President
Since joining the AMWU as an apprentice in 2003, Keith has been advocating for workers' rights in his workplace.
He became a workplace delegate in 2014, and now represents workers as a delegate to the AMWU National Safety Committee, AMWU National Rail Industry Committee, and the AMWU NSW/ACT Rail Industry Committee.
He's been NSW/ACT State President since 2019, and being rank and file, Keith is still on the job working as a Heavy Plant Mechanic at Sydney Trains.
He's also actively involved with the AMWU Manufacturing Campaigns Committee.
In his spare time, he volunteers with the NSW RFS where he fulfils the role of Deputy Captain.
