In Memoriam Archives - Page 2 of 9

After a decade and a half at Oregon and California nurses unions, he spent most of his career mediating and arbitrating labor disagreements.

Miller was business manager of Portland-based IBEW Local 125 when the Enron scandal robbed PGE lineman of retirement savings.

Former national AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, who led an era of transformative change in America’s labor movement, died Feb. 1 at age 86.

One of labor’s best-loved folk singer-songwriters, who performed on countless strike picket lines, died Feb. 3 of COVID-19.

A former financial secretary-treasurer and briefly president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757, he worked at TriMet from 1977 to 2011.

A union rep for International Woodworkers of America and IAM, he led the Lane County Labor Council and served in the Oregon Legislature.

A shipyard worker, he served the Machinists as assistant directing business representative and led the Portland Metal Trades Council.

Rutledge led Woodworkers Local Lodge W12 in Klamath Falls, and was one of the longest serving members of the Oregon AFL-CIO Executive Board.

He was directing business rep for the Machinists Woodworkers regional council and president of the Southwestern Oregon Central Labor Council.

Clatworthy worked for the Portland Opera and was president of IATSE Local 28.