AT THE MARCH 2019 AFL-CIO ORGANIZING SUMMIT From left, Ellen Ino, partner Jim Robison, national AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka, Local 483 business manager Farrell Richartz and Local 483 administrator Luz Reyes-Geislinger.
Ellen Ino, a tenacious union volunteer and political campaigner, retired recently for health reasons. Ino, 55, has served the labor movement for decades, most recently as sergeant-at-arms of the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, executive board member of Laborers Local 483, and as a longtime union steward at Oregon Zoo, where she worked as a ticket seller.
Ino grew up in Honolulu, and earned a degree in political science from Willamette University in Salem in 1987. She became a union activist in 1990 with Service Employees International Union Local 503 when she went to work for the University of Oregon library. It was there she got active politically with the Eugene Springfield Solidarity Network. At Local 503 she became chief steward and district director, and was t