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...