Abstract Oral history interview with Ron Heintzman, conducted by Jim Strassmaier in fourteen sessions, from July 15, 2011, to February 9, 2012, for the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Heintzman discusses his work as president and business agent for Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 from 1988 to 2002, and as vice president of ATU International from 2002 to 2010. He talks about his brief tenure as ATU International president in 2010, and about his unsuccessful re-election campaign later that...

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Oral history interview with Ken Richins, conducted by James R. Kelsheimer-Sevich in four sessions, from May 24 to June 21, 2010, for the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Richins discusses his involvement with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1594 in Salem, Oregon, which later merged into Local 757 in Portland. He also speaks about his personal journey away from Pentecostalism.

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Oral history interview with Mel Schoppert, conducted by Jim Strassmaier in six sessions from October 16 to December 11, 2001, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Schoppert discusses his work as business representative of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 in Portland, Oregon, from 1962 to 1972, and as vice president of ATU International beginning in 1972.