Labor Unions
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Jamie G. Partridge
Oral history interview with Jamie G. Partridge conducted by Stephanie Vallance from February 7, 2020, to April 23, 2021, as part of the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Partridge discusses his involvement with Jobs with Justice, the National Letter Carriers Association, and the Rainbow Coalition.
Jamie G. Partridge papers
Papers of Jamie G. Patridge, an activist from Portland, Oregon. The papers reflect Partridge's involvement with labor, social jusice, and socialist causes and organizations, including the Democratic Socialists of America, Communities and Postal Workers United, the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 82, Portland Jobs with Justice, and the International Socialist Organization. The collection also includes personal papers, including writings by Partridge about gay liberation.
Portland Federation of Teachers records
Records include correspondence, 1920-1974; membership rolls, 1954-1972; bulletins, 1944-1962; administrative records, 1919; documents regarding salaries, civil rights, retirement, and school financing; and documents of other teaching associations, including the High School Teachers Union and the Oregon Education Association. Collection is partially processed.
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.
Speech to the Pacific Northwest History Conference
Typescript photocopy of a speech given by Ernest E. Baker to the Pacific Northwest History Conference, Portland, Oregon, May 3, 1974, on the history of the International Longshoremen's Association and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.
Spruce Production Division lantern slides
Lantern slides depicting activities of the Spruce Production Division in Oregon and Washington State during World War I.
Oral history interview with Jesse K. Stranahan
Oral history interview with Jesse K. Stranahan, conducted by Bill Patten in three sessions from January 7 to February 4, 1995, for the Oregon Labor Oral History Program. Stranahan discusses his involvement with the Longshore Supercargoes and Clerks Local 40 and ILWU Local 8, beginning in 1946. He also speaks about strikes by workers on the Portland waterfront during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1970s.
Oral history interview with Herman R. Teeple
Oral history interview with Herman R. Teeple conducted by Nellie M. Fox-Edwards on March 15, 1992. Teeple discusses his involvement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 48 in Portland, Oregon.
United Steelworkers of America Local 2070 records
Records of United Steelworkers of America Local 2070 of Portland, Oregon, compiled by Jack Heathman (1911-1994), who served as the local's president and as chair of the grievance committee. Local 2070 represented workers at the American Can Company's plant in Portland from 1938 until 1960, when the plant relocated to Eugene, Oregon.