Rocco Calo serves as Secretary-Treasurer and Principal Officer of Local 1150 in Connecticut since 2002. Local 1150 represents over four thousand workers at Sikorsky Aircrafts, a Lockheed Martin Company, across four states. He joins the O’Brien-Zuckerman 2021 Slate as a candidate for IBT Vice President of the Eastern Region.

Calo joined the Teamsters in June of 1987 when he started working as a Helicopter Electrician at Sikorsky Aircraft, becoming a steward a year later. During his time in leadership, Calo has focused on expanding educational opportunities for members, including maintaining and increasing the Teamsters Local 1150 Scholarship Fund, negotiated ad maintained a School-to-Career Program and started an Education Program at the Union Hall in partnership with the University of Connecticut.

Calo holds a wide range of leadership positions. He is an elected Trustee for Teamsters Joint Council 10 New England, a Trustee for the Teamsters Joint Council Annuity fund and Co-Chairman of Teamsters 1150 Prescription Drug Fund.  He also serves on the Workers Comp Advisory Board for the State of Connecticut, a position he has held since 2004.

Calo currently resides in Connecticut with his wife Yvonne and has two children; a daughter working and studying in Massachusetts and a son who is studying at the University of Colorado Boulder.