Oregon’s largest teachers union has tapped the longtime former head of the Illinois teachers union to serve as its interim executive director, a spokesman for the statewide union said Thursday.
Audrey Soglin began her role at the Oregon Education Association on Sept. 1 and will remain at the helm until next April.
Her appointment caps a period of turbulence for OEA, one of the state’s largest and most politically powerful public employee unions. Last month, the union’s board of directors declined to renew the contract of its executive director over the past five years, Tracey-Ann Nelson…