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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 8 | August 5, 2016 | NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PEOPLE Heather Conroy steps down Aug. 6 after five years as the elected executive director of Oregon’s largest union, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 503. Con- roy was named exec- utive vice president of SEIU’s inter- national at its quadrennial convention in May. Lo- cal 503 rep- Heather Conroy resents 55,000 public and publicly funded workers. Conroy has been with the union since 1997. She’ll remain in Portland in her new position. Oregon AFL-CIO has a new staff person to assist affiliates in organizing campaigns. Alma Raya comes from the Immi- grant Organ- izing Project in Los Ange- les, where she helped organize car- wash work- ers, grocery workers, construction Alma Raya workers and taxi drivers. Raya was born in Mexico and grew up in Salinas, California, where she worked in the fields alongside her parents. Raya is a beneficiary of the Deferred Ac- tion for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows chil- dren of undocumented immi- grants who entered the country before their 16th birthday to re- ceive a renewable two-year work permit and exemption from deportation. At the Ore- gon AFL-CIO, Raya replaces organizer Ben Nelson, who took a job as an organizer at Laborers Local 483. Joe Esmonde retired May 1 as a business representative and political co- ordinator at IBEW Local 48. Esmonde joined Local 48 in 1988, and became a staff mem- ber in 2000. In retire- Joe Esmonde ment, he will continue to serve as a member of the TriMet Board of Direc- tors. At Local 48, Jon Jensen has assumed the role of politi- cal coordinator. Oregon AFSCME collective bargaining director Stacy Chamber- lain was elected vice president of the AF- SCME na- tional union at its July 18- 22 conven- tion, filling the national Stacy Chamberlain union board seat that was held by newly re- tired Oregon AFSCME execu- tive director Ken Allen. Jaime Sorenson moved on July 6 after five years as a staff representative at Oregon AF- SCME to take a job at Kaiser Permanente. In the new job, she’ll communi- cate with union mem- bers about the benefits of choosing Kaiser, an all-union Jaime Sorenson health provider. Sorenson is a former president of AFSCME Local 328 at Oregon Health and Sci- ence University. THIS NEWSPAPER BROUGHT TO YOU BY AMERICA’S LABOR MOVEMENT … AND BY OUR ADVERTISERS. LET THEM KNOW YOU APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT!