In Memoriam

Imel, a unionist since 1951, headed the NW Oregon Labor Council and served as labor liaison for Congressmembers Les AuCoin and Elizabeth Furse.

The career union rep worked on civil rights for the UAW, and later served as political director for Teamsters Joint Council 37.

The NW Oregon Labor Council leader was a 59-year member of UFCW.

Fortune, a 59-year member of UFCW Local 555, led NOLC from 1985 to 1998.

A longtime leader of OEA, he helped pass Oregon's public employee collective bargaining law.

The MEBA rep was a Port commissioner and Oregon labor chair for Nixon’s 1968 presidential run.

The longtime Plumbers union officer was an Irish tenor and a WWII-era vet.

Zimmerman was president of IBEW Local 48 and assistant director at the NECA-IBEW Training Center

The former Oregon AFL president was a Korean War vet, fire fighter, legislator, and PGE executive.

The longtime ATU Local 757 secretary formerly worked for a Congresswoman and U.S. Senator

The Plasterers leader and WWII vet led the state building trades for 16 years

The Camas native was active in AWPPW, and lobbied in Olympia for fellow mill workers

The OSH psychiatrist was head of his AFSCME local and husband to Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz

Gallagher worked in public sector unions and retired from UO LERC in 1992.

The longtime UAW member was active in union and Democratic politics

Greer was a Machinists union rep and active in the Oregon AFL-CIO.

The retired University of Hawaii professor was an active historian of Northwest labor history

The retired IBEW Local 48 officer was head of the SW Washington Labor Roundtable

The UFCW Local 555 union rep started as a union meatcutter in New York.

Krahn was a longtime business agent at United Brotherhood of Carpenters