Meet Trey martin

Trey Martin is an ironworker, union leader, husband, and dad living in Edmond, Oklahoma.

he is running for Congress in Oklahoma’s fifth district to give working Oklahomans the representation they deserve.

Trey is an 8th-generation Oklahoman who was born in Shawnee and grew up moving across Oklahoma and the country as his family worked hard, just to get by. After high school, Trey worked retail and fast food jobs, trying to find a path forward. At 19, he found one. Trey joined the Ironworkers and went to work at Allied Steel. What started as a job turned into a career and a life supported by organized labor. On the job site, Trey advanced from apprentice to foreman to general foreman, eventually overseeing major projects and bigger crews, while also rising up the ranks within the union.

Today, Trey serves as President of Ironworkers Local 48. In that role, he helps train the next generation of skilled workers, connects young Oklahomans with real careers in the trades, and fights for fair pay, good benefits, and respect on the job for his fellow ironworkers. 

In the union, you take care of your own, you fight for your union brothers and sisters, because the people doing the work deserve their fair share. The same should be true for our elected officials representing us in Congress. In the richest country in the world, Oklahoma deserves a representative who will fight for Oklahomans.

Instead, in Washington, where only 2% of Congress comes from the working class, politicians are getting rich, trading stocks, serving the billionaires that got them elected, and arguing about everything except the cost of living.

Our system isn’t working for the people it’s supposed to serve. We deserve better.

Trey has felt this firsthand. A few years ago, Trey’s wife got sick with a serious autoimmune disease. She became so sick that she dropped to just 70 pounds. The medical bills piled up, and despite doing everything right, they nearly bankrupted their family. 

Oklahoma needs someone, like Trey, who truly understands the struggles of working families and knows how to stand up and fight for what we all deserve.

In Congress, Trey will take on big corporations, special interests, and politicians who’ve lost touch with the people they represent because Trey believes:

The people who do the work should have more power than the people at the top. It’s time for Washington to learn who’s boss.