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Volume 113 Number 11 June 1, 2012 Portland, Oregon

Lawyer games Anti-union governor of hamper NLRB Wisconsin faces recall effort to revive In footage released by a U.S. history has a state governor been The new rules were supposed to take recalled. effect April 30. documentary-maker, But recalling a governor isn’t a “yes- A 1935 federal law known as the Walker describes his bill no” vote; someone must run to replace a National Labor Relations Act is sup - recalled candidate. On May 8, Demo - posed to encourage collective bargain - as ‘divide and conquer’ cratic voters chose Barrett — Milwau - ing. It says workers have the right to kee mayor and former congressman — form unions, and it sets up the National If there’s a better-known union over Dane County executive Kathleen Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to ad - buster than Wisconsin’s Republican Falk, the candidate who was backed by minister the law. But employers long Gov. Scott Walker, it’s hard to think organized labor. Barrett — who put ago learned to use a variety of legal ma - who that would be. Just months after himself through college and law school neuvers to delay the NLRB’s bureau - winning office with 52 percent of the working as a member of the Teamsters cratic process for conducting union vote, Walker directly attacked organized Union on the Harley-Davidson assem - elections. That delay gives union-bust - labor with a bill that stripped public em - bly line — also has a solid pro-labor ing consultants more time to sow doubt, ployees of all meaningful collective bar - record as a legislator and executive, in - division and fear in workplaces where gaining rights, provoking an outcry that cluding a vote against NAFTA while he the employers have total control, and spread to 50 state capitols. was in Congress. unions — even pro-union workers off On June 5, Wisconsin voters decide So, voters will have the same choice the clock — can be forbidden from en - whether to recall him from office. The they had in November 2010. Only now, tering. choice will be between Walker and Tom Walker has a record. In December, the NLRB announced Barrett, the Democrat who lost to him Besides eliminating public em - new rules would limit those employer in November 2010. ployee collective bargaining rights, legal maneuvers. As Lafe Solomon, the Also up for recall are four Republi - Walker pushed through major tax cuts NLRB top lawyer put it: “these guide - can state senators who voted for Act 10 for corporations and wealthy individu - lines … provide opportunities for us to (Walker’s anti-collective bargaining als, and slashed state government budg - fully effectuate the policies and pur - bill), and Wisconsin lieutenant gover - ets, including money for schools. He re - poses of the Act, as they relate to the nor Rebecca Kleefisch, Walker’s run - jected $810 million in federal funds to representation process.” ning mate. Voters will choose between build a high-speed rail line from Madi - But the anti-union U.S. Chamber of Kleefisch and Mahlon Mitchell, an out - son to Milwaukee. And he signed a law Commerce howled in outrage, calling it spoken state Fire Fighters union leader that requires voters to show govern - an “ambush rule” which would “greatly who rose to prominence in the fight ment-issued ID before casting a ballot. shorten the time an employer had to de - against Act 10. [If Mitchell wins, he’d Walker is also being circled as a pos - fend against an effort to unionize his be Wisconsin’s first black lieutenant sible target of a broad criminal investi - business, from 42 days to 10 days.” governor.] gation stemming from his 2010 cam - [Wait, doesn’t the law say it’s workers’ The June 5 recall election comes 15 paign. The investigation, by a decision whether to unionize?] Out - Teaching a new trade months after citizens occupied the state Milwaukee district attorney, has re - lined in a 24-page memo only a lawyer Kat Lakey of Iron Workers Local 29 helps a participant climb a steel column Capitol in Madison and Democratic sulted in misdemeanor and felony could love, the rules themselves contain during a workshop at the Women in Trades Career Fair held May 17-19 in state senators fled Wisconsin to prevent charges against multiple former Walker no specific timeline. However, it’s true Portland. The three-day interactive fair is produced by Oregon Tradeswomen Act 10’s passage. Protesters redirected appointees. While Walker was Milwau - that eliminating irrelevant post-hearing Inc. to introduce women and girls to the possibility of a future career in the their energy to gathering signatures on kee County executive, he was sur - briefs and other delaying tactics would trades. The first day was for middle school girls; Day Two was set aside for recall petitions, and in August 2011, six rounded by aides working at taxpayer result in quicker elections. high schoolers; and Day Three was open to the general public. Nearly 1,200 Wisconsin state senate Republicans expense on his campaign for governor. Luckily for the Chamber, its lawyers students from schools throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington were on faced recall elections, with two losing That violated Wisconsin law, and they found a technicality by which to over - hand to learn about apprenticeship training opportunities and to take part in office to Democrats. Wisconsinites then even set up a secret e-mail system to turn the rule cutting down on technical - the free workshops. Another 600 attended the Careers for Women Day on gathered over a million signatures to re - avoid detection. The investigation has ities. When the National Labor Rela - May 19. This year marked the 20th year of the event. Photo by Dawn Jones. call Walker. Only two times before in tions Board approved the rule change, (Turn to Page 8) its Republican member Brian Hayes (an Obama appointee) had refused to vote. Thus, Chamber lawyers argued in federal court, the NLRB had no quorum Lanning to depart AFL-CIO for Workers Comp Board position when it approved the rule change, and Steve Lanning has been appointed by Gov. John gon AFL-CIO for the past 22 years and is a and is finishing his fourth term on the therefore the change was unlawful. On Kitzhaber to the Workers Compensation Board. The member of IBEW Local 48. He has held vari - board. May 14, U.S. District Court Judge appointment is a full time job with the Department of ous job titles at the state labor federation, most The Senate confirmed 71 new ap - James Boasberg (an Obama appointee) Consumer and Business Services. The five-member recently as government affairs specialist. pointments by Gov. Kitzhaber to boards agreed with the Chamber that there was board resolves disputes arising under Oregon work - Lanning will succeed Frank Biehl, a long - and commissions on May 23. Lanning no quorum: a win for legal delaying tac - ers’ compensation law and the Oregon Safe Employ - time member and lobbyist of the Association of will be sworn in Sept. 10. tics, and a loss for workers trying to get ment Act. Western Pulp and Paper Workers. Biehl was He will remain at the Oregon AFL- a union in their workplace. Lanning, 61, of Salem, has been on staff of the Ore - first appointed to the post in September 1996 CIO through July. Labor peace comes, finally, to Vancouver Hilton Hotel VANCOUVER — Hilton Vancou - 15-year contract with the facility’s ver Washington workers have a second owner, the City of Vancouver’s Down - union contract, 10 months after their town Redevelopment Authority. Previ - first one expired. ously, Hilton Vancouver banquet The new two-year deal, concluded servers received 53 percent of the serv - by Portland-based UNITE HERE Lo - ice charge; now they’ll get 57 percent. cal 9 in mid-May, covers 116 employ - With their share of the charge, banquet ees, including housekeeping, laundry, servers can earn in the range of $19 an banquet, and restaurant workers, though hour, said server Jillian Province. not front desk. The agreement contains The new contract runs through June five 20-cent raises totaling $1 an hour 30, 2014. It comes after the union for non-tipped employees, who previ - waged a long-running public campaign ously earned Washington’s $9.04-an- of rallies and demonstrations. hour minimum wage. It also reduces “It was really hard for us to get what housekeeper workload to no more than we got,” says Province, who’s been ac - 10 “checkouts” per shift within a daily tive in the campaign for a contract. quota of 15 rooms. In December, the union filed a multi- Also, starting January 2014, work - part unfair labor practice charge with ing 24 hours a week will make workers the National Labor Relations Board, ac - eligible for employer-provided health cusing management of interfering with insurance; the previous requirement a worker vote over whether to boycott was 32 hours. Workers pay $40 a month the hotel. Among other things, workers for employee-only coverage. were told the hotel would close if it was The contract also increases the boycotted, and were given donuts if amount banquet servers get to keep out they voted no. Workers rejected the of the automatic “service charge” paid boycott 57-49. Then on Dec. 21, pro- by convention center customers. Event union telephone operator Lucas Fielder schedulers may believe that a “service was fired. charge” is a gratuity that goes to work - But Fielder was returned to work in ers providing the service, but it’s com - early January, thanks to public pressure, mon in the catering industry for the em - says UNITE HERE Local 9 deputy ployer to keep all or part of it. trustee Karly Edwards. [Portland-head - Hilton manages the 226-room hotel quartered Local 9 has been adminis - and adjacent convention center under a tered by the national union since 2007, when it was placed in trusteeship.] Ed - wards said the Hilton settled the charge without admitting guilt, and promised in a bulletin board posting that it would respect workers’ union rights. Hilton Vancouver workers have been union-represented since June 2006, when the company recognized that a majority had signed union authorization cards. But they didn’t get a first contract until June 2008, and pro-union workers haven’t had an easy time of it: They twice had to beat back decertification efforts by anti-union workers. Hilton Vancouver Washington is the first hotel in the Northwest region to settle during this round of negotiations; Local 9 members in Portland at the Hilton, Benson and Paramount hotels remain without a new contract.

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PAGE 2 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS JUNE 1, 2012 No time to cut maintenance, union tells City Trying to save money on maintenance can have expensive consequences, Local 483 members testified at a May 17 City of Portland budget hearing. The hearing, held at David Douglas High School, was a chance for public feedback about the mayor’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The budget contains some cuts to maintenance, including a proposal to save money by cutting four street cleaner positions and going down to once per year for residential street clean - ing. But that might not save money, said Local 483 Executive Board member Wes - ley Buchholz (pictured above), an employee of the Bureau of Environmental Serv - ices. The bureau is chiefly responsible for sewage and wastewater treatment, and Buchholz said skimping on street cleaning causes more debris to flow into the City’s sewer system. “Do you know what it costs to grind up a bowling ball in a $45,000 German- made pump?” Buchholz asks. “A lot more than it costs to pick it up on the street.” “In the six years I’ve been there, I’ve seen more and more stuff coming my way, which tells me there’s more and more stuff up top that’s not getting picked up. Ma - chines are having to be rebuilt and replaced on a regular basis, and it costs thou - sands of dollars.”

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JUNE 1, 2012 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 3 the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., IRON WORKERS 29 METAL TRADES COUNCIL Portland. IMPORTANT PLEASE NOTE: Nomina - SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON Official Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, June 7, preceded by Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Thursday, June 14 tions for all elected Officers and Delegates will be held at a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 11620 NE Delegates meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 26. this meeting. Potential candidates refer to the SMWIA LABOR COUNCIL Ainsworth Cir., #200, Portland. Meetings are held at IBEW Local 48 Hall, 15937 NE Constitution Article 12, Section 3 regarding qualifica - Delegates meet 6 p.m. Thursday, June 28, preceded Airport Way, Portland. tions. To be eligible, nominees must be a member in by an Executive Board meeting, at the ILWU Local 4 Good Standing for two years prior to nomination, cannot Hall, 1205 Ingalls St., Vancouver, Wash. Notices IRON WORKERS be a convicted felon and must present a current dues re - MID -C OLUMBIA ceipt (June’s dues paid in May) at the meeting. SHOPMEN 516 Medford area members meet 4 p.m. Wednesday, June UNITED ASSOCIATION 290 AKERY ONFECTIONERY Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Thursday, June 14. LABOR COUNCIL 13, at Wild River Pizza, 2684 N. Pacific Hwy., Medford. Portland area members meet 7:30 p.m. Friday, June B , C , PLEASE NOTE: The regular union meetings have Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, at 3313 W. 15, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tualatin. 2nd, The Dalles. Eugene area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, June 14, TOBACCO WORKERS AND been canceled for June, July and August. at Sheet Metal Local 16 Hall, 1887 Laura St., Spring - Astoria area meeting has been canceled for June, July Meetings are at 11620 NE Ainsworth Cir., #300, Port - field. and August. GRAIN MILLERS 114 land. MULTNOMAH COUNTY Coos Bay area members meet 4 p.m. Thursday, June Bend area members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, Executive Board meets 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 19, 21, at Abby’s Pizza, 997 First St., Coos Bay. at the Local 290 Training Center, 2161 SW First, Red - followed by a 9 a.m. General Membership meeting in EMPLOYEES 88 Women of Sheet Metal Workers Local 16 (WOSM) mond. the meeting room, at 7931 NE Halsey, Suite 205, Port - Executive Board meets 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, meet 4:30 p.m Thursday, June 21, at Beaulahland, 118 Brookings area meeting has been canceled for June, land. LABORERS 320 t the AFSCME union office. NE 28th Ave., Portland. Children are welcome. July and August. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, June 14, at Joe Edgar a General membership meets 7 p.m. Wednesday, June PLEASE NOTE: ELECTION OF ALL SMWIA Coos Bay area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, June Hall, Teamsters’ Complex, 1850 NE 162nd Ave., Port - Local 16 officers will take place at the following times 19, at the Coos Bay Training Center, 2nd & Kruse. land. 20, preceded by 6 p.m. stewards meeting. BOILERMAKERS 500 Meetings are held at 6025 E. Burnside St. and locations: Eugene area members meet 6:30 p.m. Monday, June Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, June 9, at 2515 NE Coos Bay area members vote 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. 18, at the Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Park - Columbia Blvd., Portland. Monday, June 25, at Bay Area Labor Center, 3427 Ash way, Springfield. LABORERS 483 ORTHWEST REGON St., North Bend. Klamath Falls area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, at the Mu - N O Roseburg area members vote 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. June 19, at 4816 S. 6th St., Klamath Falls. sicians Hall, 325 NE 20th Ave., Portland. BRICKLAYERS AND ALLIED LABOR COUNCIL Monday, June 25, at Roseburg Labor Temple, 742 SE Medford area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, June Delegates meet 7 p.m. Monday, June 25, at IBEW #48 Roberts, Roseburg. 21, at 950 Industrial Circle, White City. CRAFTWORKERS 1 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland. Medford area members vote 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.. Tues - Salem area members meet 6 p.m. Monday, June 18, at Members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, at 12812 NE LABORERS /V ANCOUVER 335 1810 Hawthorne Ave. NE, Salem. Members meet 7 p.m. Monday, June 4, preceded by a day, June 26, at Medford Labor Temple, 4480 Rogue Marx St., Portland. Valley Hwy., Central Point. The Dalles area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 6:15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Vancouver La - PAINTERS & D RYWALL 19, at the United Steelworkers Local 9170 Union Hall. bor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vanc., Wash. Eugene area members vote 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 26, at SW Oregon Training Center, 1887 Humboldt-Del Norte Co. area members meet 6 p.m. CEMENT MASONS 555 FINISHERS 10 Laura St., Springfield. Monday, June 4, at the Eureka Training Center, 634 Cal - Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, June 21, at 12812 Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 20, at the As - Bend/Redmond area members vote 6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. ifornia St., Eureka, CA. PLEASE NOTE DATE NE Marx St., Portland. LANE COUNTY bestos Hall, 11145 NE Sandy Blvd. 2nd Floor, Portland. CHANGE. Website: www.iupatlocal10.org . Wednesday, June 27, at UA 290 Training Center, 2161 S. LABOR COUNCIL 1st St., Redmond. Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, at Salem area members vote 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. CENTRAL OREGON Wednesday, June 27, at UA 290 Training Center, 1810 USW 1097 1116 South A St., Springfield. PLASTERERS 82 Members meet 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, pre - Members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, at 12812 Freeway Ct., NE #110, Salem. LABOR COUNCIL Portland area members vote 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thurs - ceded by a 5:45 p.m. Executive Board meeting, in the Delegates meet 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 25, at UA NE Marx St., Portland. union office building, Westport. 290 Training Center, 2161 SE 1st St., Redmond. LANE , C OOS , C URRY & day, June 28, at Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., Portland. DOUGLAS BUILDING TRADES PORTLAND CITY & Hillsboro area members vote 2 p.m to 6 p.m. Thurs - COLUMBIA -P ACIFIC Delegates meet at noon Wednesday, June 27, at the day, June 28, at McKinstry, 22965 NW Evergreen Park - Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Parkway, METROPOLITAN EMPLOYEES way #202, Hillsboro. BUILDING TRADES Springfield. The positions of the Business Manager and Business Gradine Storms, Principal Broker Delegates meet 10 a.m. Tuesdays, June 5 and June 12, 189 Representatives are also elected as Local 16 Delegates at Kirkland Union Manor II, 3535 SE 86th, Portland. Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12. for Representation to AFL/CIO, SMWIA functions and RE/MAX equity group LINN -B ENTON -L INCOLN General membership meets 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, June any functions where Local 16 Delegates are required. 26. To receive a ballot, a member must be in good stand - Cell/Text 503-495-4932 ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 LABOR COUNCIL Meetings are held at 6025 E. Burnside St. ing. Dues will need to be paid through April 2012 for this Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, Delegates meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, preceded election. [email protected] in the Executive Boardroom. by a 6:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 1400 Salem Electrical Workers Minority Caucus meets 5 p.m. Ave., Albany. ROOFERS & W ATERPROOFERS IGN AINTERS Tuesday, June 12, in the Executive Boardroom. S P & Sound and Communication Unit meets 6 p.m. Tues - 49 PAINT MAKERS 1094 day, June 12, in the Meeting Hall. LINOLEUM LAYERS 1236 Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, June 7. Members meet 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 18, in the Dis - Residential Unit meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, in Executive Board meets 5 p.m. Monday, June 4. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, June 14. trict Office, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Low Prices! the Dispatch Lobby. Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, June Meetings are at 5032 SE 26th Ave, Portland. (Phone: Wasco Unit meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 13, at 28. 503 232-4807) Northern Wasco County PUD, 2345 River Road, The Meeting are at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. SOUTHERN OREGON Dalles. Coast Unit meets 7 p.m. Thursday, June 14, at Astoria SALEM BCTC CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Labor Temple, 926 Duane St., Astoria. MARION -P OLK -Y AMHILL Delegates meet 10 a.m. Thursday, June 7, at the IBEW Delegates meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, at the Labor Washington Unit meet 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 14, at 280 Training Center, 33309 Hwy 99E, Tangent. Temple, 4480 Rogue Valley Hwy. #3, Central Point. Round Table Pizza, 5016 NE Thurston, Vancouver. LABOR COUNCIL Women of 48 meets 5 p.m. Friday, June 15, at Radio Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, Room, 1101 NE Alberta, Portland. followed by a 7 p.m. general meeting at Yamhill County SHEET METAL WORKERS 16 SOUTHWESTERN OREGON Meetings are at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland, un - Fairgrounds, 2070 NE Lafayette Ave., McMinnville. Portland area VOC meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, less otherwise noted PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE. at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL DEATH ASSESSMENTS: The following death as - Portland. Delegates meet 6 p.m. Monday, June 4, at the Bay sessments have been declared for June and are payable at Portland members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 12, at Area Labor Center, 3427 Ash, North Bend. 50 cents: No. 2311, Joan Z. Mosser; No. 2312, Patrick S. Endicott; No. 2313, William E. Concannon; and No. Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 9:30-5:30, Sun 12-6 2314, Lawrence C. Gisi. The June assessment is $1.50. Retiree Meeting Notices ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS 23 ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED Wednesday, June 6, at Denny’s ence room, 1125 SE Madison #103B, Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, June 14, preceded by $17 a month coverage a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 12779 NE AMERICANS OREGON CHAPTER Restaurant, 12101 SE 82nd, Happy Portland. Whitaker Way, Portland. Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Valley. includes: Thursday, June 14, followed by an 11 OREGON AFSCME FIRE FIGHTERS 452 a.m. General Membership meeting, in GLASS WORKERS 740 Retirees meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, June Members meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, at 2807 NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver, Wash. the Labor Community Service board Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, 19, at the AFSCME office, at the AF - room, at 1125 SE Madison, #103B, June 21, at Izzy’s Pizza, 1307 NE SCME office, 6025 E Burnside, Port - FIRE FIGHTERS 1660 Portland. All retirees are welcome to 102nd Ave., Portland. land. Call Michael Arken for informa - Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, June 14, at 4411 SW attend. tion at 1-800-521-5954 ext. 226. Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego. FLOOR COVERING 1236 BAKERS 114 Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, GLASS WORKERS 740 Executive Board members meet 5 p.m. Thursday, Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, June 8, at Izzy’s Pizza, 1307 NE SHEET METAL WORKERS 16 June 7, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. June 28, at Izzy’s Pizza, 1307 NE 102nd Ave., Portland. Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, June 7, at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. PLEASE NOTE: 102nd Ave., Portland. June 14, at Izzy’s Pizza, 1307 NE This meeting is Special Call for wage allocation. INSULATORS 36 102nd Ave., Portland. Eugene area members meet 5 p.m. Monday, June 4, at Best Western Manor Inn, 971 Kruse Way, Springfield. ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 Retirees meet 9 a.m. Thursday, June PLEASE NOTE: This meeting is Special Call for wage Retirees, wives and friends meet 7, at the Dockside Saloon and Restau - TRANSIT 757 allocation. Salem area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, at Bob’s rant, 2047 NW Front Ave., Portland. Retirees meet 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Candalaria Terrace, Suite 204, 2659 Commercial St. SE, Red Mill for lunch at the Deli, 5000 June 6, at Westmoreland Union Salem. PLEASE NOTE: This meeting is Special Call for wage allocation. SE International Way, Milwaukie. For Manor, 6404 SE 23rd, Portland. more information, please call Glenn NORTHWEST OREGON LABOR INSULATORS 36 Hodgkinson at 503-656-0028. RETIREES COUNCIL UA 290 Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 13. Business meeting from 10 a.m. to Portland area retirees meet 10 a.m. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, June 14. ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS 23 12 noon. Monday, June 11, in the Thursday, June 21, at 20210 SW Meetings are at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. www.legalshield.com/info/randallnix Retirees Only meet 11:30 a.m. Labors’ Community Service confer - Teton Ave., Tualatin.

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Hot dogs, hamburgers and soda also Mail to: NWLP, PO Box 13150, Portland OR 97213 The poker run itself is a scenic and will be on sale. (Please include union affiliation) challenging 90-mile round-trip ride A drawing for a 2012 Harley-David - Groener named to with four checkpoints. Riders will re - son “Big Blue” Heritage Softail Classic • 15-20 words • No commercial or business ads • 1 ad per issue ceive a playing card at the IBEW hall motorcycle will take place at 4 p.m. In Clackamas CC board • All lower case ( NO CAPITAL LETTERS, PLEASE ) • commemoration of the event’s 10th an - Chris Groener, a union representa - niversary, the bike will be autographed tive of United Food and Commercial Ads MUST include area code or they will not be published by Willie G. Davidson, the company’s Workers Local 555, has been appointed senior vice president and grandson of to the Clackamas Community College Harley-Davidson co-founder William Board of Education. 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PAGE 6 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS JUNE 1, 2012 Letter Carriers deliver big with food drive Letter carrier Allison Schmuck, a member of Portland-based National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 82, gets a little help from her husband Allen and dog Kaz at the Stamp Out Hunger food drive sponsored by NALC. This year, more than 1.33 million pounds of food was collected in Oregon and Clark County, Wash. In addition, the drive raised $74,459 in cash. National results were not tabulated at presstime. Close to 4,000 urban and rural letter carriers in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., joined letter carriers throughout the nation May 12 to collect food donations from postal customers while delivering their mail. The event has been billed as the largest one-day food drive in the nation. “What our letter carriers do on this one day is amazing,” said Rachel Bristol, CEO of Oregon Food Bank, which collects and distributes the food through a network of four branches and 16 independent regional food banks. “This is truly a community effort involving thousands of volunteers who unload trucks at every post office, box the food, and load it onto donated semis for delivery to the regional food banks and food pantries.”

JUNE 1, 2012 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 7 ...Wisconsin guv’s strategy is ‘divide and conquer’ (From Page 1 nationwide. also targeted Walker donors for cam - Now, backed by money, Walker is paign finance law violations; one rail - fighting to stay in power with an over - road executive pled guilty and paid a whelming “air war” of broadcast adver - $167,000 fine. And two top aides were tising. charged with embezzling $60,000 in - Organized labor is hoping to over - tended for a veterans’ support group. come that with a “ground war” of vol - Since winning the May 8 primary, unteer. In Wisconsin, the AFL-CIO and Barrett hasn’t focused his campaign on other labor organizations are focusing collective bargaining rights but rather on door-to-door and face-to-face con - on Wisconsin’s economy and on the tacts with a field operation that’s bigger criminal investigation around Walker. than the Obama campaign was in 2008. TV ads for Barrett say Wisconsin lost “We Are Wisconsin,” the labor-backed UFCW’s Anderson 23,900 jobs last year. coalition, has set up 29 field offices Walker ads say the reverse, that the statewide. Nationally, the AFL-CIO’s re-elected to Salem state gained 23,321 jobs. And Walker new Super PAC, Workers Voice, is co - has more money to spend on ads, hav - ordinating fundraising and volunteer Electric Coop RECLAIMING WISCONSIN: At the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO office in signup at its web site, workersvoice.org . ing raised over $25 million, much from Jeff Anderson, secretary-treasurer of out-of-state millionaires. As a result, Milwaukee, a phone bank is part of the effort to recall union-busting governor At http://bit.ly/Km2cKF , supporters can Scott Walker. sign up online to make phone calls, con - United Food and Commercial Wisconsinites are being subjected to Workers Local 555, won re-election non-stop television and radio ads, mail - tribute, and get campaign updates. “Any chance we’ll ever get to be a Walker doesn’t spell out who is to be Labor organizations nationwide are to a seat on the board of directors of ers, robocalls from the Walker cam - Salem Electric, a private, non-profit, paign. completely red state, and work on these divided and conquered, but his bill is a also helping out. unions?” Hendricks asks Walker. “Oh masterpiece of the strategy, attempting Four staff members of Tigard-based member-owned electric cooperative Polls of “likely voters” show the two serving 20,000 members in Salem as neck and neck. yeah,” Walker nods. to pit public against public employee, United Food and Commercial Work - “And become right to work?” Hen - nonunion against union, private sector ers Local 555, an affiliate of the and Keizer. The seven-member But for unionists, it’s a defining board is elected by the members it fight, made all the clearer with the May dricks asks. union against public sector union, and Change to Win labor coalition, were Walker’s reply: “We’re going to start even — by exempting police and fire dispatched to Wisconsin to assist in the serves. Following its annual meeting 10 release by a documentary film- in May, the board reorganized and maker of video footage from January in a couple weeks with our budget ad - unions from the attack — public sector get out the vote campaign. justment bill. The first step is we’re go - union against public sector union. But And the Oregon AFL-CIO has or - elected Anderson to serve as 2011. In the video, Walker comes up to president. Anderson, of Keizer, was give a kiss to billionaire Diane Hen - ing to deal with collective bargaining Walker may not have anticipated the ganized eight shifts of phone banking, for all public employees, ‘cuz you use counter-reaction — a high degree of including, in the final week, 3 to 6:30 first elected to the board in 1985 and dricks, a major donor and owner of has served as secretary-treasurer ABC Supply Company. divide and conquer.” solidarity by unions and an outpouring p.m. June 3, 4, and 5. To sign up, call of support by nonunion working people 232-1195, extension 114. and vice-president. Anderson’s term expires in 2015. Northwest Oregon Labor Council recognition dinner is June 2 The Northwest Oregon Labor Council will host the 15th annual Labor Ap - preciation and Recognition Night Saturday, June 2, at Milwaukie Elks Lodge, 13121 SE McLoughlin Blvd. A no-host cocktail hour starts at 5 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. Dinner tickets are $15 per person. Raffle tickets also will be sold for $1 each or seven for $5. The labor council is still accepting cash and prize donations for the raffle. The dinner and awards ceremony, serves as a fundraiser for Labor’s Com - munity Service Agency, while also recognizing individuals for their service and support to the labor community. For more information or to order tickets, call 503-235-9444.

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