About Pat Duffy

Pat Duffy has worked for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and the Holyoke-based United Auto Workers Local 2322. Both jobs require a deep and ever-growing knowledge of business, government, law, contracts, and the social and economic needs of people who work for a living.

She has been privileged to work with people at all levels of society -- business and labor leaders, local and state elected officials, and regular folks, working hourly wage jobs, struggling to make a living. She has the knowledge and the ability to work with everyone to make Holyoke a better place.

Duffy's work experience has taught her the importance of weighing the needs of every part of the community. Municipal governments have been facing tough times including unfunded mandates from the federal government, the severe cutbacks of the Romney administration, and a slower economy. We need to work together to make the tough choices, and to ensure that they are made fairly.

A longtime resident of Western Massachusetts, Duffy became a Ward 6 homeowner in 2004. "My heart has been in Holyoke for quite some time," she says, "This city's vitality comes from the past and future of the immigrants drawn here."