Northwest Oregon Labor Council Archives

Delegates approved a slate of mostly incumbent officers at the organization’s Nov. 27 meeting. They serve four-year terms.

With members of UFCW Local 555 on strike, the Oregon AFL-CIO and Northwest Oregon Labor Council have designated Kaiser as an unfair employer.

About 2,000 union members and their families came out to the Labor Day picnic held at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds this year.

Over a dozen union members were honored for outstanding contributions to labor and the community June 3 at an annual appreciation dinner.

After a lifetime of engagement with labor and politics, Wimmer brings decades of high-level experience to the job.

Retired teachers union lobbyist Laurie Wimmer was elected unopposed Feb. 27 for executive secretary-treasurer of NW Oregon Labor Council.

The Northwest Oregon Labor Council’s event, which drew 12,000 in a typical year, went on hiatus during the COVID pandemic.

Executive secretary-treasurer, a full-time staff position, has been vacant since Thomas Mosher left in November.

The executive secretary-treasurer leads a local council of the AFL-CIO with 76 local union affiliates totaling 53,000 union members.

In August, he got an offer he couldn’t turn down: return to his former home of Philadelphia to work for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.