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Nonprofit Oregon Tradeswomen prepares women to enter apprenticeship programs in skilled construction and mechanical trades.

Longtime ILWU Local 8 officer Stuart Strader secures second four-year term on the Port of Portland Commission.

Former judge O'Glasser will represent the interests of management in his second term on the Oregon Employment Relations Board.

Northwest Labor Press has a new staff reporter! Anna Del Savio joined the press as a full-time employee in September 2024.

The new secretary-treasurer of the Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council is a fourth-generation building trades union member.

Wynn, 71, worked as a cement mason, but also served as president of the local, and coordinator of its apprenticeship program.

Everywhere he goes, Kevin Landreth scans for signs of roofers at work. If they’re non-union, he wants to have a word with them.

Charyle Molden found a job, and blazed a trail, as the first Black woman in IBEW Local 48.

Seattle-based NLRB agent Janet Little will be stepping in to handle the management duties and correspondence.

David Groves left the Washington State Labor Council after 32 years. Mike Burlingham left Bakers Local 364 to work for Oregon AFSCME.

Reporter Mallory Gruben has left for a job as a union organizer. Grant Stringer joins us after writing for The Oregonian and Willamette Week.

Laborers Local 483 member Jayne Lacey has combined a lifelong passion for climbing trees with a commitment to public service.

From Brazil to Nepal, South Africa to New Guinea, Jed Scheuermann taps the skills of his trade to safeguard human health and dignity.

One diehard union supporter has played a part in all three sign shops that unionized in the last several years.

Martial arts helped Jimmy Jennett recover from drug addiction, and he opened a gym in 2018 to share his story.

Bob Petroff left Machinists District Lodge W24 headquarters this month, the close of 49 years of involvement with the union.

Union stewards like OPEIU Local 11 officer Kim King are the backbone of the labor movement.

Marcy Grail left IBEW Local 125 for a position at Kiewit. Russell Smith was appointed to succeed her as assistant business manager.

After a decade helming the local union building trades, Willy Myers leaves a unique legacy.

Near the close of NW Oregon Labor Council’s Oct. 23 delegates meeting, Mark Sturbois was called to the front for a surprise ceremony.