Women labor leaders -- Oregon
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Margaret Butler
Oral history interview with Margaret Butler conducted by Madeline Bisgyer from June 4 to August 17, 2018, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Butler discusses her involvement in union organization and her career as executive director of the Portland coalition of Jobs with Justice from 1996 to 2013.
Oral history interview with Alice L. Dale
Oral history interview with Alice Dale, conducted by Carolyn K. Matthews in five sessions, from March 5 to May 21, 2018, for the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Dale discuses her career as a lawyer for Oregon Public Employees Union (OPEU, later SEIU Local 503) from 1978 to 1982; her work as executive of Local 503 from 1985 to 2001; and her work as a trustee and then president for SEIU Local 49 from 2001 to 2009.
Portland Jobs with Justice records
Collection consists of the records of the Portland, Oregon coalition of Jobs with Justice, a national non-profit organization advocating for workers' rights. The records document several campaigns and other activities of the Portland branch from the tenure of its first executive director, Margaret Butler, from its founding in 1991 through 2016, and cover labor issues and actions primarily in the Pacific Northwest but also across the nation and the world.