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About Northwest labor press. (Portland , Ore.) 1987-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 2016)
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS | August 19, 2016 | PAGE 23 THE LOCAL LABOR MOVEMENT AT A GLANCE There’s no perfect way to show our local labor movement at a glance, given how complex and diverse the labor movement is. To begin with, what’s local? This newspaper’s readership area consists of Oregon and Southwest Washington. Some unions have a jurisdiction that matches that. Others have multi- state locals that include Oregon and Washington and even Idaho and Montana. Each section below is dis- played according to size, listing each national/international union that has local chapters. The numbers were drawn from the most recent annual report each local union filed with the U.S. Labor Department, supple- mented by self-reported num- BUILDING TRADES UNIONS 34,438 Intl. Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) - 10,842 United Brotherhood of Carpenters (Carpenters) - 5,173 United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA) - 4,226 Laborers' International Union of North America (LiUNA) - 3,378 International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) - 3,362 International Association of Iron Workers (Ironworkers) - 2,079 International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) - 1,635 Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) - 1,586 Operative Plasterers & Cement Masons Intl. Assn. (OPCMIA) - 572 Roofers, Waterproofers & Allied Workers (Roofers) - 553 Bricklayers and Allied Crafts (BAC) - 528 Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers (Insulators) - 259 International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC) - 245 bers, and membership figures shared by the AFL-CIO. The figures were not exact, but to- taled about 300,000 union workers in all in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Each column below represents about 100,000 workers. You can see the local labor movement con- sists of a handful of giant unions and many smaller ones. The list starts, upper left, in the private sector with building trades unions, which were the first to form — many of them over 100 years ago. Below those are transportation, industrial, grocery, communications, enter- tainment, hospitality unions. On the right two columns, we list the public sector unions. They’re the most recent to or- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES (AFSCME) 25,151 ganize, but now are by far the largest. Complicating the picture is that most of the public sector unions have some private sector members too, and vice versa. Over a dozen small unions don’t appear, either because we couldn’t get numbers for them or they were just too tiny to mention. They include police and railroad unions. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (AFT) 44,380 Local 6732 (Oregon School Employees Association) - 19,059 Local 5905 (Oregon Nurses Association) - 11,445 Local 8035 (AFT-Oregon) - 9,392 Local 5017 (Oregon Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals) - 4,484 INTL. ASSN. OF FIRE FIGHTERS (IAFF) - 2,724 AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION (ATU) 5,025 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAM- STERS (TEAMSTERS) 21,180 SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION (SEIU) 68,598 Local 162 , Portland - 5,326 Local 670, Salem - 3,734 Local 305, Portland - 3,587 Local 206, Portland - 2,696 Local 223, Portland - 2,240 Local 324, Salem - 1,468 Local 962, Central Point - 1,490 Local 81, Portland - 639 Local 503 (state workers, home care workers, nursing homes) - 56,454 Local 49 (hospital workers, janitors, security guards) - 12,144 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCATION (NEA) 45,000 Oregon Education Association (OEA) INDUSTRIAL UNIONS 16,211 Intl. Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) - 5,641 Carpenters Industrial Council - 3,374 United Steelworkers (USW) - 2,436 Bakery Confectionery Tobacco and Grain Millers (BCGTM) - 1,695 International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) - 1,141 Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers (AWPPW) - 956 Boilermakers - 404 Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics & Allied Workers (GMP) - 310 United Auto Workers (UAW) - 254 UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS (UFCW) 19,456 Local 555 includes workers at Fred Meyer, Safeway, Albertsons, and QFC in Oregon and Southwest Washington TELECOM, ENTERTAINMENT, HOTEL, OFFICE UNIONS 4,402 CWA | IATSE | OPEIU | Musicians | UNITE HERE | SAG-AFTRA FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UNIONS 10,989 National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) - 3,405 American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) - 2,708 American Postal Workers Union (APWU) - 1,691 National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) (LIUNA) -1,661 National Rural Letter Carriers' Association (NRLCA) - 1,061 Natl. Treasury Empls. Union (NTEU) -356 | Natl. Air Traffic Controllers Assn. (NATCA) - 107
