NALC Business Agent Mike Caref out of Illinois(Region 3) is running for NALC President in 2026.

Michael Caref was reelected national business agent for Region 3 by acclamation in 2022 at the 72nd Biennial Convention in Chicago. Caref served from 2010 to 2014 as vice president of Chicago Branch 11 before first being elected national business agent in 2014 following balloting held among his region’s active and retired members.

He began his career as a union activist in 2000, serving for 10 years as a steward for Chicago’s Ravenswood Station Caref also served as the Illinois State Association of Letter Carriers’ Muscular Dystrophy Association coordinator from 2001 to 2009, and was a delegate-at-large from 2011 to 2013.