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