How the Country’s Top Union Leader Gets It Done

Organized labor is in Liz Shuler’s DNA. The AFL-CIO president grew up in a union household, with a father who was a power lineman at Portland General Electric and a mother who was an estimator in the company’s service-and-design department. The first time Shuler bargained, she was an 11-year-old babysitter trying to match what a friend earned. After college, she worked several gigs to make ends meet before following her parents to Portland General Electric, where she got a job in the payroll department. There, she tried and failed to form a union among clerical workers. Though the outcome was not what she hoped, Shuler learned that there was a place for her in the labor movement.

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