Profiles. Individual honors, successes, remembrances.
Ahearn’s replacement is Ronald Hooks, from the NLRB’s Memphis office.
Lee Hunsaker, a former business representative and 69-year member of the Machinists Union, died Nov. 11 of age-related causes. He was 88. Lee G. Hunsaker was born March 28, 1923, in Dillon, Mont., to Isaac
Bob Carroll succeeds Ed Barnes on the Vancouver Public Facilities District board of directors.
Gay civil rights leader Cleve Jones was a star guest April 20 at the kickoff of the newly-chartered Oregon chapter of Pride At Work.
Debbie Hussey, a union steward at Portland’s 911 call center, outpolled fellow state board member Carol Justice.
Duke Shepard has been Oregon AFL-CIO political director since January 2006.
At 43, she’s one of America’s youngest national union leaders.
Rick Bender and Al Link pass the mantle to Jeff Johnson and Lynne Dodson.
Fourteen years ago, Heather Conroy was waiting tables in Northwest Portland. On Nov. 12, she’ll take the reins of Oregon’s second-largest union. Conroy won election in a three-way race, and will succeed Leslie Frane as executive director of 45,000-member SEIU Local 503.
Bob Shiprack, an icon of Oregon construction unions, retired Oct. 1 as executive secretary of the Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council. Shiprack said he likely will do consulting work, primarily on clean energy and solar, but has no plans to run for elected office or to lobby.
