Marion, Polk, Yamhill Labor Council installs new officers

SALEM — McMinnville Steelworker Joe Munger was re-elected president of the Marion, Polk, Yamhill Counties Labor Council.

Munger, president of United Steelworkers Local 8378 and a melt shop worker at Cascade Steel Rolling Mills, will serve a second two-year term as president of the mid-Willamette Valley labor umbrella group, which consists of 21 local unions. 

Other officers elected were: Vice President Kathy Bonogofski, Oregon School Employees Association Zone III director and chapter president at Willamette Education Service District; Secretary Treasurer Richard Swyers, a maintenance worker for the City of Salem Water Department and member of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2067; and Recording Secretary Judy Sugnet, a retired OR-OSHA librarian (and current legislative aide to State Rep. Brad Witt) and member of Service Employees International Union Local 503.

Elected trustees were Omar Avina-Trejo, a union representative at United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555; Greg Creal, Central Electrical Training Center instructor and member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 280; Monte Hansen, Cascade Steel crane operator and Steelworkers Local 8378 vice president; Rosalie Pedroza, Oregon State Hospital research analyst and SEIU Local 503 regional director; and Tim Roark, Social Security Administration employee and vice president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 3937.

Pedroza will also serve as the Labor Council's representative on the General Board and the Committee on Political Education for the Oregon AFL-CIO; Creal is the Labor Council’s appointee to the Tri-County Enterprise Board.

The officers were sworn in at the group’s Feb. 9 meeting.

For more about the labor council, go to or.aflcio.org/mpyclc. 

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