Northwest Oregon Labor Council Archives

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.

Union actor Harold Phillips is wrapping up a run as a Portland-area labor activist after close to three decades in the city.

Event organizers say the long-running annual picnic was killed off by the park’s own management, which implemented a slew of recent changes.

Thomas Mosher succeeds Bob Tackett, who retired, as executive secretary-treasurer of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council.

Fiona Yau-Luu, Eva Rippeteau and Thomas Spisak-Mosher are running to be the next secretary-treasurer of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council.