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Longtime AFSCME rep Rick Henson retires

Henson started as a Carpenter, became head of SEIU Local 49, and returned to serve AFSCME

SEIU 503 political director Arthur Towers departs after decades of service to labor

Towers helped empower home care workers, raise corporate taxes, and save public services from cuts.

IBEW attorney Norm Malbin rests his case

Malbin policed an industry, trained hundreds in labor law, and helped members with legal problems

Lee Duncan retirement sidelines motorcycle poker run for kids

Co-founder Lee Duncan retires from Unions4Kids, and his job at IBEW Local 48

Machinists, Metal Trades, DCU have void to fill with Scott Lucy retirement

Lucy has been with the Machinists for 35 years.

Labor attorney publishes fourth in series of novels about Portland’s trade union past

The historical mystery series follows a fictional trade union spy in early 1900s Portland.

Oregon Historical Society exhibit features first black-owned bakery

Hurtis Hadley is a retired member of Bakers Local 114

New LERC instructor brings an organizer’s perspective

Raahi Reddy was hired to replace longtime labor educator Marcus Widenor, who retired.

IBEW Local 48’s Keith Edwards retires after 44-year career

Edwards, 64, was IBEW's first black business manager

Homecoming for national AFL-CIO’s Liz Shuler

The top labor leader is a native Oregonian.

David Cecil named chief of staff at AFT-Oregon

The former graduate teaching fellow has 13 years in the labor movement

Lansing tapped to international Bakers Union executive board

Lansing, 62, is the first from Local 114 to serve the union’s national Executive Board

Dick Schwarz retires from AFT-Oregon

The longtime AFT leader helped bring down perennial union foe Bill Sizemore.

Portland Jobs with Justice leader Margaret Butler stepping down

Her replacement is Karly Edwards, a longtime UNITE HERE organizer.

UFCW’s Anderson re-elected to Salem Electric Coop

The member-owned co-op serves 20,000 in Salem and Keizer.

Lanning to depart Oregon AFL-CIO

Longtime union political staffer will work full-time at the state Workers Compensation Board.

After 38 years, Kathy Blay retires as secretary for Locals 1236, 740

Blay greeted a generation of members of Floor Coverers Local 1236 and Glass Workers Local 740.

Two Local 16 sheet metal workers chosen as top 12 in United States

Sheet metal detailers do complicated, behind-the-walls building systems.

Oregon Senate confirms Kitzhaber appointees

Dozens of Kitzhaber appointees were confirmed, including including a handful important to labor.

IBEW Local 48 member uses Heimlich to save life of colleague

Kim Gilliam's quick reaction came two weeks after an EC company first aid training.