In Memoriam Archives - Page 2 of 10

Noon was a business rep for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council 55 and later Council 5.

A former apprenticeship coordinator, president, and business agent of Bricklayers Local 1, he remained active in the union to the end.

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.