"Ben" Banchs
Unaffiliated · LA
Ben Banchs is a longtime St. Tammany Parish resident, Louisiana Air National Guard veteran, and candidate for School Board District 7. He has also served as a labor-union business manager and community volunteer.
Where "Ben" Banchs stands, based on their records
Supports
Civil Rights (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 1 support
Pushed in a published union article to keep National Guard technician workers' job complaints with the federal equal-employment system (EEOC). He opposed a National Guard Bureau plan to move harassment and discrimination complaints into military channels with no outside appeal.
May 4, 2013Supports Civil Rights
Source: local1776.org
Track record — General
General · 7 records
Released a union report on worker complaints at a South Carolina Army National Guard helicopter repair site. The report listed claims of worker mistreatment and safety and maintenance problems, not yet proven, and called for an investigation.
August 25, 2025
Source: local1776.org
Published an article criticizing the Defense Department's plan to cut about 60,000 civilian jobs. He wrote that the cuts would leave tens of thousands of veterans jobless. Veterans hold 57% of Air Force and about half of Army civilian jobs.
February 22, 2025
Source: local1776.org
Argued on a union podcast that National Guard technicians should become regular federal civil servants. Under the current rule, they lose their civilian jobs if they leave the Guard. He also called three Trump executive orders limiting federal unions harmful.
April 14, 2022
Source: local1776.org
Published a notice to union members after President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine order. He told them federal law lets the government require vaccines for its workers, with only religious and medical exemptions.
September 10, 2021
Source: local1776.org
Served as the union's chief negotiator in contract talks with the Nevada Army National Guard over uniforms for technician workers. A federal labor board then rejected the union's appeal asking for uniforms or an $800 yearly allowance for officer technicians.
February 9, 2018
Source: flra.gov
Bused several special-needs flood evacuees from a Baton Rouge shelter to a medical site while serving as a Master Sergeant in the Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Wing during the August 2016 floods.
August 16, 2016
Source: geauxguard.la.gov
Testified before the National Commission on the Future of the Army as head of Laborers' Local 1776. He argued that Guard technician workers are more experienced and cheaper than active-duty troops, and that the Army should not take Apache helicopters away from the Guard.
July 16, 2015
Source: local1776.org
Past race "Ben" Banchs ran in:
- Member of School Board District 7 · November 3, 2026 · St. Tammany Parish School District, Louisiana