Union democracy

Local 11 represents 2,000 office workers in five states, plus outside workers at NW Natural

Beetle, 65, retires after decades of union activism

Machinists challengers will be on national ballots in April.

Local 503 board recommends unification but delegates balk at changes

A Portland Boeing worker is in the running for national IAM office

Low turnout and duplication of effort end the group after 15 years.

After an investigation, DOL is overseeing a re-run of the election for national Machinists officers

Jensen ran unopposed for a fourth three-year term.

Kevin Card and Jim Cook, two longtime local leaders, have left office.

State labor federation says vote "yes" on drivers card law

Eight years after leaving, Engineers back in AFL-CIO Building Trades Department

Willy Myers succeeds Jodi Guetzloe Parker, who resigned mid-term.

Business Rep Mike Bodendorfer is retiring

The union of Multnomah County workers faces a political election and contract bargaining in 2014

The new local represents 550 construction boilermakers in Washington and Oregon

Merged union would be 65,000-strong in government, health care and building services

Delegates admit labor can't go it alone and, like national AFL, resolve to make a big tent bigger

Delegates voted more policy resolutions than in previous years, and nearly all passed unanimously

The longshore union cited jurisdictional disputes as part of the reason.

Delegates also commit to back construction projects and oppose two ballot measures