Eddie Escotó Alvarez is the Council Representative for Los Angeles County. He joined the Council in 2023. As Council Representative, he works with Council Executive Secretary Ernesto Medrano to achieve Project Labor Agreements and Community Workforce Agreements for public projects and private entities. Alvarez also spearheads political outreach to elected officials and candidates for office at all levels of local, state and national government.
Alvarez was most recently Business Representative and political coordinator for the Alameda County Building and Construction Trades Council. There, he won PLAs with various school districts and public entities chaired the PLA oversight committee of the Port of Oakland; and represented the Council in public sector bargaining.
Alvarez grew up in Highland Park and Tujunga, where he graduated from Verdugo Hills High School of LAUSD. Alvarez went on to Carroll College in Helena, Montana, where he graduated with degrees in International Relations and Political Science. He comes from a strong union household where his father is a 50-year member of Elevator Constructors Local 18, his grandfathers were farm workers and a union hotel workers. By trade, Alvarez is a baseball groundskeeper and continues to serve his community by volunteering as a baseball coach at California State University, LA.