National AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, and Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski are scheduled to address convention delegates.

Sweeney is slated to speak at 10 a.m. on the opening day, Monday, Oct. 8. Kulongoski is scheduled to appear at 4:30 p.m.

On Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 10 a.m., Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina who ran for vice president in 2006 on the John Kerry ticket, will address delegates.

On Wednesday, delegates will elect new officers and Executive Board members. Both president and secretary-treasurer posts are up this year. President Tom Chamberlain is completing the term of Tim Nesbitt, who stepped down in mid-term, and Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Byrd completed the term of Brad Witt, who was deemed ineligible to following the departure of United Food and Commercial Workers to the Change to Win labor federation.

Nominations will be held at 11:45 a.m. Oct. 8.

The convention begins at 9 a.m. all three days.

A welcome party will be held on Sunday, Oct. 7, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Best Western Oceanview Motel, which also will serve as the convention headquarters. The state labor federation’s Executive Board, General Board and Committee on Political Education will meet Sunday starting at 1 p.m. at the Best Western Oceanview Motel.

After adjournment on Monday, Oct. 8, delegates will canvass sections of the city with Working America, a community affiliate of the national AFL-CIO that is partnering with labor to create a massive workers’ movement. After the canvass, volunteers will have a barbecue at Broadway Park in Seaside.

At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9, the popular Union Label Show will be held at the Seaside Convention Center.

An Executive Board meeting will be held immediately following adjournment on Oct. 10.