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Volume 107 Number 17 September 1, 2006 Portland Enjoy Your Labor Day! The State of the Unions in Oregon A look at the facts and unions in states like Oregon. The ads fortunes of the labor attempt to discredit and disgrace unions using crude stereotypes about movement overpaid union bosses and snarling government bureaucrats. In 1884, the early labor union 2006 is the fifth year of a White Knights of Labor declared it would House Administration that labor lead - observe the first Monday in September ers regard as the most anti-union in as Labor Day. Three years later, Labor living memory. In five years, the presi - Day became a federal holiday. dent has met with just two labor lead - Though picnics came to replace pa - ers (Carpenters president Doug Mc - rades as the preferred observance for Carron, and Teamsters president the union faithful Labor Day remains a James Hoffa Jr.). To federal agencies day to celebrate union victories for in charge of workers’ rights and pro - working people. But union victories tections, George W. Bush made pro- are few this Labor Day, which comes business and anti-union appointments, in an anti-labor year, in an anti-labor from the Department of Labor and the era dating back 5, 25, or 33 or 59 National Labor Relations Board to the Raising funds for Kulongoski years. Mine Safety and Health Administra - Unions are under political attack. tion. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer collects $20 bills in a baseball cap from union members eager to re-elect Ted A Washington, D.C., group with Political attacks matter, because al - Kulongoski (back center) governor of Oregon. Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 8 hosted the event, links to the U.S. Chamber of Com - most everything about the way unions which included a barbecue and live band, at its union hall in Northwest Portland. “Ted Kulongoski showed merce said in August it will buy $1 operate is defined by law. And up 30 years ago for labor, and he’s dedicated his entire career to labor. He stands by your side 24 hours a day, million of television and newspaper changes in the law, going back as far seven days a week,” said Schweitzer, who pleaded with union members to also volunteer for phone banks and ads in the coming months targeting (Turn to Page 4) neighborhood door-knocking on behalf of the Democratic governor. The Peacemaker: Connie Weimer helps union and management get to the deal

For 22 years, Federal Mediation and mediators nationwide; Weimer and Commissioners Jim Bailey and Conciliation Service Commissioner Connie Darrell Clark are responsible for all of Oregon, Idaho and South - west Washington. Weimer has gotten the call when labor and FMCS’ core activity is collective bargaining mediation — a management can’t get along voluntary process in which mediators serve as a neutral third party to broker a settlement. Once a labor agreement is signed, they also serve as arbitrators, for a fee, when union and management can’t By DON McINTOSH agree how to resolve a grievance. And they help set up local, re - Associate Editor gional and national labor-management committees that try to pre - From her office on the 16th floor of Portland’s Federal Build - vent serious disagreements from breaking out in the first place. ing, Connie Weimer, 58, looks out over the Willamette River. “Mostly you never hear about us,” Weimer says. FMCS is in - “I’m trying to make collective bargaining work for working visible until bargaining breaks down, and even then it works be - people, and for the employers,” Weimer says. “I believe it’s better hind the scenes. Credit, when agreement is reached, goes to the than the alternative.” warring parties who buried the hatchet. Mediators avoid the lime - Weimer is a commissioner of the Federal Mediation and Con - light. ciliation Service, a tiny stand-alone federal agency with a mission Yet FMCS knows about every union negotiation in the country. of promoting labor-management peace. FMCS has fewer than 200 (Turn to Page 10 ) Let me say this about that —By Gene Klare

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THE NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS, which dates back to Labor Day 1900, ranks as one of the oldest labor newspapers still being published in the United States. This newspaper began as the Portland Labor Press. Its name was soon changed to the Oregon Labor Press at the request of the Oregon State Federation of Labor. Another name change, to Northwest Labor Press, was made two decades ago to reflect the paper’s enlarged scope. The publisher of the NW Labor Press contin - vey by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, a sum - ues to be the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Company, a non-profit entity whose In Our Younger Days mary of which is published in the August issue of the shares are owned by various labor organi - Monthly Labor Review. The total number of members of all zations. FROM THE OREGON LABOR PRESS , S EPT . 2, 1916 — labor organizations at the time of the study was 4,443,523, UNIONS BELONGING to the Port - Members of the Moose Lodge are urged to keep their children of whom 3,338,997 were in organizations affiliated with the land Federated Trades Assembly — the cen - out of school on Labor Day. The lodge goes on record op - American Federation of Labor and the remainder in inde - tral labor council of that era — launched the posing the Portland School Board’s plan to open public pendent unions. weekly Labor Press in 1900 because com - schools on Labor Day. A survey of wages in the automobile industry in 1925, just mercial dailies were biased against workers Iron Workers Local 29 announces a fine of $5 for any completed by the Bureau, shows an average increase in and their unions. That situation still exists. member failing to join in the Labor Day parade. wages of 10 percent over the wages paid in 1922. The wages In announcing the birth of this newspa - Musicians Local 99 will provide automobiles for “lady of male employees in 1925 were found to average 72.9 cents per, the Federated Trades Assembly said: members” joining in the Labor Day parade. per hour and $36.67 per full-time week, while female em - “THE TRADE UNIONS of this city ployees averaged 46.7 cents per hour and $23.40 per week. have organized the Portland Labor Press FROM THE OREGON LABOR PRESS , S EPT . 3, 1929 — The The average full-time hours were 50.3 in 1925 as com - Publishing Association ... in order to edu - extent of trade unionism in the U.S. is shown in a recent sur - pared with 50.1 in 1922. cate the wage-workers upon the various phases of the modern labor movement, as well as to strengthen, protect and promote their interests. Its object is to publish a C.M. Rynerson weekly paper ... and to give to the wage- EENNJJOOYY workers as well as the general public of this city and state reliable information concern - ing the local as well as the international labor movement.” In his history of the Oregon labor movement, Jack E. Triplett Jr., a state labor LLAABBOORR DDAAYY federation 1952 scholarship winner, declared: “The most important single event in the year 1900 was the appearance of the Portland Labor Press.” TRIPLETT GREW UP in the Coos Bay area on the South Oregon Coast and graduated from North Bend High School. His father worked in sawmills as a YOU’VE EARNED IT! member of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, which later became the Western Council of Industrial Workers, based in Portland. Triplett worked sum - mers as an LSW member. He wrote his “History of the Oregon Labor Movement Prior to the New Deal” as a thesis for his master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He later earned a doctorate there and went on to a career in labor, academia and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unions active in the founding of this Labor Press included the Typographers, Pressmen, Machinists, Millworkers, Electrical Workers, Barbers, Retail Clerks, Letter Carriers, Brewers, Cigarmakers, Beer Drivers and Musicians. Groups of unions supporting the start-up of the Labor Press included the Printing Trades, 541 NE 20th Ave. Suite 108, Portland, Oregon Building Trades and Metal Trades. All of those unions and groups of unions were affiliated with the Portland Federated Trades Assembly. 503-222-9603 THE LABOR PRESS had several editors in its initial years, one of them be - ing Clarence Mortimer Rynerson, who was a printer-editor member of Mult - nomah Typographical Local 58. He was hired in 1911 but left after three months Serving America’s Taft-Hartley because of health problems. However, three years and that many editors later, Trust Funds SINCE 1951 C.M. Rynerson, with his health restored, was appointed editor and manager of the Labor Press. He became the newspaper’s longest-tenured editor, serving until 1939 when he accepted a gubernatorial appointment to the State Industrial Acci - dent Commission, which later became the Workers Compensation Commission. Renee Steele Tom Royalty Linda Sherburn Rynerson was appointed by Gov. Charles A. Sprague, who was the publisher of Salem’s morning newspaper, The Statesman. Tom DeVaney Joanne Nordquist Sheryl Erickson Stability was a hallmark of Rynerson’s years at the helm of the Labor Press. Of (Turn to Page 27) PAGE 2 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 ASTORIA — Labor Day Picnic at given by Oregon Labor Commissioner Cullaby Lake Park (8.5 miles south of Dan Gardner. Astoria). Noon-4 p.m. Sponsored by Musicians include: The Rogue Sus - ILWU Local 50. Call 503-325-2271 pects, Broadway Phil and the Shouters, for more information. and A Stitch In Time. Call Carol Bennett at 541-664-0804 MEDFORD — The Southern Ore - for more information. gon Central Labor Council will be hosting an old fashioned Labor Day NORTH BEND — Labor Day Picnic from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at beauti - Picnic sponsored by Southwestern ful TouVelle State Park on the banks of Oregon CLC at Ferry Road Park in the Rogue River. Events include live North Bend, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., featur - music, a free barbecue, candidate ing speakers, games, barbecue and live speeches, horseshoes, volleyball and music. Call Chair Shawn Jennings for more. The keynote speech will be more information at 541-396-3244. 22000066 LLaabboorr DDaayy PPiiccnniiccss

PORTLAND — Labor Day Picnic sponsoring a dunk tank. “Dunkees” sored by the Central Oregon Labor at Oaks Park in Southeast Portland. 10 will include union officials and any Council AFL-CIO, United Food and a.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsored by the North - politicians willing to get wet. All pro - Commercial Workers, Oregon School west Oregon Labor Council. The La - ceeds will go to the Machinists Strike Employees Association, AFSCME, bor Council will sell food scrip for 25 Fund for members at Cummins NW. Central Oregon Building Trades Coun - cents each. Three scrip will get you a Call 503-235-9444 for more infor - cil, Service Employees, Jobs with Jus - hot dog and chips, two scrip a soda mation. tice and el Programa de Ayuda. pop, and four scrip a beer. Union members and family and A deluxe ride bracelet costs $8.25 EUGENE/SPRINGFIELD — friends of labor are invited to enjoy and is good from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This Labor Day Picnic at Jasper Park, Shel - free hamburgers, hot dogs, vegetar - year the roller rink will be open for ter Four, in Springfield. 12:30-4:30 ian choices, raw veggies, chips, dips, those with ride bracelets. p.m. Sponsored by the Lane County soft drinks and more. Participants are Bill Lucy, secretary-treasurer of the Central Labor Council. Call Cj Mann asked to bring a potluck dessert to American Federation of State, County at 541-913-0056 for more information. share. Entertainment will include and Municipal Employees, and Ore - live music and games for kids. gon Gov. Ted Kulongoski will be the BEND — Labor Day Unity Picnic Call Kathryn Wood at 541-385- keynote speakers. at Pioneer Park along the Deschutes 8471 for more information. Other statewide politicians also River in Bend. Noon-4 p.m. Co-spon - have been invited. Union Plus Mortgage also will be

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 3 ...State of the Unions Union Facts (From Page 1) Then, in 1947, the Labor-Manage - ment Relations Act (better known as as 59 years, have fueled labor’s de - Oregon’s largest union is the Oregon Educa - Taft-Hartley) rewrote the National La - cline. bor Relations Act, hemming in labor tion Association, which represents 45,000 The National Labor Relations Act and foreshadowing its decline. It out - teachers in K-12 public schools. of 1935 set up a process for unions to lawed the closed shop, allowed states be certified as the exclusive bargaining Number two is SEIU, with two locals and to ban the union shop, limited unions’ representative for groups of workers, 42,000 members in the public sector, use of boycotts, and set up tight re - and it ordered employers to negotiate strictions on picketing and fines on health care and janitorial service industries. when a majority of workers declared unions that violated those restrictions. Number three is AFSCME, with 21,800 support for a union. Unfortunately for That 1938 Supreme Court decision unions, the law didn’t have sufficient members. lay mostly unused. Employers could penalties to force employers to negoti - Number four, and the state’s largest pri - permanently replace strikers, but they ate. But workers were feeling their didn’t, because such conduct was con - vate-sector union, is the Teamsters, with power, and used the strike to get em - sidered beyond the pale. Until August eight locals and about 22,000 members. ployers to make concessions. 1981. When 13,000 air traffic con - The National Labor Relations Act The largest private-sector local headquar - trollers struck the Federal Aviation Ad - also said workers had the right to ministration, Republican President tered in Oregon is United Food and Com - strike, and couldn’t be fired for strik - Ronald Reagan fired them and ordered mercial Workers Local 555, with 18,000 ing. But they COULD be “perma - replacements to be hired and trained. nently replaced,” said the U.S. members, 16,000 of whom work in Oregon. If the highest office in the land could Supreme Court three years later. (Local 555 jurisdiction extends to Southwest do it, so could America’s corporations. Employers’ ability to permanently re - Washington.) place strikers reduced the effectiveness of labor’s ultimate weapon and re - The Oregon AFL-CIO is the state’s premier duced unions’ ability to win gains for labor federation, with affiliated locals from members. Labor Despite the political defeat of Taft- 41 national or international unions, report - UNITE HERE Hartley, unions continued to grow as a ing a total of 89,626 members. The Oregon proportion of the workforce — for six AFL-CIO also counts 35,000 members in its Day years. Union membership peaked in Local 9 community affiliate, Working America, in 1953 at 32.5 percent (one in three Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees workers) and has fallen ever since. To - which individuals sign up to connect with Greetings day it’s 12.5 percent (one in eight the labor movement’s political outreach. workers). The Oregon AFL-CIO’s five largest affiliates According to the most recent data are AFSCME, the American Federation of from 1125 SE Madison St. #209, PORTLAND, OREGON from the federal Bureau of Labor Sta - tistics, 15.7 million Americans were Teachers, IBEW, the Oregon Nurses Associa - 503-230-2304 union members in 2005. tion, and the Machinists Union. Oregon had 213,000 union mem - bers in 2005, or 14.5 percent of the workforce, down from 22.3 percent in The Change To Win labor federation, formed 1983. in 2005, has about 100,000 Oregon mem - Judging by annual reports filed bers, in six unions: SEIU, UFCW, Teamsters, with the Labor Department, most Ore - Laborers, Carpenters and UNITE HERE. gon unions have lost members in the last five years. (Turn to Page 5)

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(From Page 4) among public employers to adopt pri - either to attract the best employees, or Will labor’s fortunes turn around? of the times among working people. vate sector methods of union resist - to avoid unionization. It’s hard to imagine labor regaining But some labor leaders look for Membership at most Oregon build - ance,” said Dick Schwarz, executive But declines in union clout may clout without regaining members, and hopeful signs. ing trades unions declined slightly director of the American Federation of have put the fortunes of working peo - regaining membership will be hard (Turn to Page 6) from 2000 to 2005, but in the last year, Teachers-Oregon. ple in jeopardy. without change in the law or the spirit a construction boom has brought in Why does union decline matter? Here’s what’s happening: U.S. pro - new members and kept existing mem - Because unions have been the number ductivity rose 16.6 percent from 2000 bers fully employed. one vehicle for working people to to 2005, but inflation-adjusted wages In Oregon, two exceptions to the claim their share of the nation’s for most workers have been flat or overall decline are the public em - wealth. falling. In other words, American ployee unions American Federation of First and foremost, unions help workers were producing one sixth State, County and Municipal Employ - their members, enabling them to get more wealth than five years prior, but ees, and the Service Employees Inter - greater pay and benefits than similar the fruits of the growth were increas - national Union Local 503. AFSCME workers who don’t have unions. This ingly flowing to the top, particularly grew 6 percent in five years; Local is referred to as the union premium. In the top 1 percent. 503 grew 47 percent in five years, 2005, the union premium was 14.7 Without strong unions, workers’ though almost all of that growth was percent. That’s the amount union ability to claim their share of the new due to a single victory — the unioniza - wages exceeded non-union wages, wealth is weakened. tion of low-wage in-home health care given the same industry, occupation, On the ground, for union members, workers. education, experience and other fac - it means reduced expectations: Unions In general, the public sector is the tors. Unionized workers were also are fighting just to stand still, particu - only area in which unions are grow - 28.2 percent more likely to be covered larly with health care. ing. For the most part, public sector by employer-provided health insur - Asked to name the three thorniest workers didn’t get the right to unionize ance, 28.4 percent more likely to have issues in contract bargaining, AF - until after labor’s peak. employer-provided pensions and are SCME Oregon Council 75 Executive Today, the difference is startling: 24.4 percent more likely to receive Director Ken Allen responds: “Health Nationally, 36.5 percent of govern - health insurance coverage in their re - care, health care, and health care.” ment workers were unionized in 2005, tirement. Unionized workers also got Employers are increasingly trying compared to 7.8 percent of private sec - 14.3 percent more paid time off. to limit the burden of rising health care tor workers. But union wins for their members premiums, and unions are resisting. But the growth spurt of public sec - also benefit working people as a Often, preserving health benefits tor unions may be slowing now too. whole: higher union wages may set a comes at the cost of smaller wage in - “We’re sensing more tendencies standard for other employers to follow, creases.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 5 ...State of Union Facts Happy Labor Day! Oregon has 213,000 union members, or the unions 14.5 percent of the workforce. That’s higher than the national average (12.5 percent). (From Page 5) Washington is 19.1 percent union, with Vehemently anti-union Wal-Mart is 523,000 union members. That’s the high - on the defensive, and may make some est “union density” of any Western state, positive changes to improve its public image. and the sixth highest in the nation. Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain is encouraged by the The states with the highest percentage of thought that the president’s low poll union members are: numbers may lead the more pro-labor New York: 26.1 percent Democrats to take back the U.S. Hawaii: 25.8 percent House, and the Oregon House, for that matter. Alaska: 22.8 percent Public anxiety about the trade Michigan: 20.5 percent deficit and offshoring — of manufac - New Jersey: 20.4 percent turing, high-tech, call center, and any number of other jobs — could create Idaho’s rate is 5.2 percent. political pressure to do something. Until then, Labor Day may need to The lowest unionization rate in the nation is become less about looking backward South Carolina’s: 2.3 percent. to victories and more about looking to the present to protect them, and to the future to win back the gains of the past. The Hard-Working Dedicated Municipal Employees

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PAGE 6 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 Union women take action to help prevent cervical cancer Union members Christine Baze and After playing in six cities in 2003, the and healthy — and thankful they are by spreading the word about HPV and reads this to share the message with Tamika Felder are survivors of cervical tour hit 20 cities in 2004 and 21 cities in alive. And both women know that every cervical cancer and the critical impor - friends, family members and co-work - cancer. They have used their experi - 2005. Christine is currently planning her person they reach — face-to-face or tance of regular cervical screening. They ers. As most union women have health ences to let women know that the Num - fall 2006 tour, She will be at Mississippi through articles like this — can help and the Coalition of Labor Union insurance — and most insurance plans ber 1 risk factor for cervical cancer is not Studios in Portland on Saturday, Sept. make cervical cancer a thing of the past Women are depending on everyone who cover cervical cancer screening — there being screened regularly. 30 and at The Triple Door in Seattle on Additionally, both Baze and Felder Sunday, Oct. 1. For more information, educate women about the link between go to her Web site at www.yellowum - human papillomavirus (HPV) and cer - brellatour.com . vical cancer, so that women understand Felder, now a member of AFSCME that persistent high-risk HPV infections Council 20 in Washington, D.C., was di -

There is no reason that any union woman (or wives of union men) should get cervical cancer, as more than 86% of union members have health insurance and most health plans cover cervical cancer screening. Coalition of Labor Union Women are the cause of cervical cancer. The Pap agnosed with cervical cancer in May test can detect cell changes caused by 2001. After surgery and treatment, she, HPV, while the HPV test can detect the too, decided to tell her story as a way to virus that causes these changes. The Pap get the message out. She had no health test is the appropriate screening test for insurance and no union when she was di - women younger than 30; a Pap and agnosed and had not been screened for a HPV test together are appropriate for number of years. It never occurred to her women 30 or older. that she might develop cervical cancer. Unfortunately, these facts are not “I was a successful television pro - well known. As a result, the American ducer, doing great shows and then can - Cancer Society estimates that in 2006, cer came into my life,” she says. “I al - about 9,710 cases of invasive cervical most didn’t make it.” cancer will be diagnosed in the United In January 2005, Tamika created States and nearly 3,700 women will die. Tamika and Friends ( www.tamikaand - Baze, a member of Musicians Local friends.org ) to raise awareness about 9-535 in Boston, is a singer/songwriter cervical cancer and the importance of who always dreamed of being a rock regular screening. The centerpiece of star. In 2000, she was diagnosed with her program is “House Parties of fiVe,” cervical cancer, before current cervical a social gathering of friends that mixes cancer screening technologies were “girl talk” with lessons to help women available. In 2002, after recovering from become more comfortable discussing surgery and treatment, she created their sexual health. At the end of each Popsmear.org ( www.popsmear.org ), a party, hosts encourage guests to pass non-profit organization that spreads her what they have learned to family and message through pop music. And in friends, and many of these women 2003 she launched a national musical pledge to visit their gynecologists for tour, “The Yellow Umbrella Tour,” to Pap tests and/or HPV screenings. spread awareness about cervical cancer. Both Baze and Felder are cancer-free

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(From Page 1) as a knowledgeable and impartial management attorney Bob Lee of and supported Minnesota’s Farmer- owing other mediators. Portland was Unions are required to notify the deal-maker. “At the end of the day, she Bullard Smith Jernstedt Wilson. Labor Party, which merged with the her first permanent assignment. agency before beginning any contract brings home a deal,” says John Etten, Today Weimer is a professional Democrats in 1944. At college she Over the years, she’s developed a bargaining. Then, list in hand, FMCS director of bargaining for United Food “neutral,” but she got her start in the studied speech, political science and method. commissioners like Weimer follow up and Commercial Workers Local 555. house of labor. music, graduating from the University “I see myself as a settlement advo - with a phone call to the leaders to ask “She’s little but she’s tough,” says Al - Born Constance Marie Weimer on of North Dakota in 1970. She taught cate,” Weimer adds. “I’m trying to how each negotiation is going. ice Dale, president of Service Employ - a farm near Bejou, Minnesota, she be - high school and coached speech and avert an economic meltdown.” Among negotiators from both ees Local 49. “She has a positive en - gan early to think about politics: Her debate, counseling students to come She does that, she says, by helping sides, Weimer has earned high marks ergy and she never gives up,” says family belonged to the Farmers Union prepared to argue either side of a the parties assess the consequences of proposition. It was a skill Weimer disagreeing. would later use herself at FMCS. Part of that is working on adver - When Minnesota passed a law al - saries’ internal dynamics. lowing government employees to “Unions are a political organiza - unionize, she got active in the teachers tion,” Weimer says. In other words, union. union leaders may feel they need to It was a course change for Weimer. show results in order to keep their “I went to bargaining sessions and jobs, and that perception can be an un - found it fascinating and stimulating,” spoken constraint in bargaining. she recalled. Weimer cautions union negotiators She decided to get a master’s de - about shaping the expectations of the gree in industrial relations at the Uni - members. versity of Minnesota. Degree in hand, “To the extent that expectations are she was hired by the American Nurses raised beyond reality, sometimes the Association to represent nurses, first mediator will talk with the bargaining in Minnesota, then in Kansas City. team about what they can realistically She moved to Oregon in 1978 to help get. Their colleagues are going to have an ANA-affiliate, the Oregon Nurses to make a decision: ‘Are they willing Association, which was competing to sacrifice to get something more?’ “ with the Oregon Federation of Nurses So rather than committing to one and Health Professionals, AFL-CIO, specific outcome, she encourages both to see who would represent Kaiser sides to think in terms of progress. Permanente clinic nurses. Nurses at She tries to understand the interests Bess Kaiser Hospital went with ONA; underlying the proposals of both sides, nurses at Sunnyside joined OFNHP. and looks for other ways of satisfying Five years and four nursing strikes those interests. She tosses out ideas, later, Weimer was homesick, and re - asks “what if” questions. turned to Minneapolis for a stint with “I want to know that I haven’t left the teachers union. Then she found the room without exploring with the out FMCS was hiring. parties every alternative,” Weimer The agency tended to hire experi - says. “Did I turn over every stone in enced labor negotiators. Experienced search of ideas?” labor negotiators tended to be men. She knows the terms of other labor Affirmative action, she believes, agreements, so if one party is stuck on helped her win the job — she was one winning something unusual, she asks of eight employees hired by FMCS, them to explain why they think that’s out of 160 applicants. reasonable. She began at the FMCS July 16, Often, what works is separating the 1984, and learned the ropes by shad - parties. Then Weimer is the one to de - (Turn to Page 11 )

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(From Page 10 ) It’s a central dilemma of her profes - Taft-Hartley over the veto of President ing labor and management walk away hours, she stays recharged by cultivat - liver proposals and counterproposals. sion, but one that FMCS doesn’t con - Harry Truman. friends? Doesn’t really happen, ing her garden at home in Northeast “She plays, as she calls it, the cern itself with officially. Though founded in ferment, today Weimer says. Portland, and playing keyboard in the Kissinger-style, back-and-forth, shut - Strikes are down 90 percent since the agency keeps away from contro - “It does happen that both sides Portland Accordion Ensemble. tle diplomacy part,” says the UFCW’s 1970. In 2004, there were just 273, versy. Unlike the Department of La - leave the table happy with a settle - And the job itself keeps her going. Etten. with less than three dozen involving bor, its budget doesn’t fluctuate nor do ment,” Weimer says, “but more often a “Many people would say we’re ab - “Sometimes if somebody from the more than 1,000 workers. Is that a bril - its work methods change depending good deal means both sides are un - solutely crazy to walk into a situation other team delivered [a proposal], it liant success for FMCS, or a measure on which party is in power in Con - happy, because they each gave up where people are arguing every day,” would just feel like salt in an open of the declining effectiveness of the gress or the White House. something.” Weimer says. wound,” Weimer says. strike, labor’s ultimate weapon? “I think both parties see the value If Weimer ever wearies of the back- “But I can tell you that all of us “If there’s a great power imbalance, Undoubtedly, it’s the latter. Unlike of the work we do,” Weimer says. and-forth, she doesn’t let on. In off- love this work.” I try to get a conversation started [with workers in some other countries, That neutrality holds even in the the more powerful side] about the American workers don’t have the right passionately partisan Bush Adminis - long-term consequences of using all to keep their jobs if they go on strike; tration. FMCS’ current director, Arthur the power at their disposal, compared employers can permanently replace Rosenfeld, was formerly a kind of “la - to what’s basically needed and why.” them. That legal flaw became a man - bor law attorney general” as general “On the other side, I tell whoever is agement custom after President counsel of National Labor Relations lacking the power that we need to talk Ronald Reagan set the example in a Board. about that. We put that in context of 1981 strike by air traffic controllers But anti-union groups like the Na - what’s going on in the industry, in this employed by the federal government. tional Right-to-Work Foundation felt community, or even nationwide, so Permanent replacement of strikers Rosenfeld was not combative enough that that bargaining team realizes that weakened union bargaining power, with unions, and opposed his reap - it isn’t their inadequacy, but that their and with it unions’ ability to win jus - pointment. In January, Bush reas - job is to try to figure out a strategy. tice in the workplace. signed him to head the FMCS. Many times that strategy is for short- But FMCS’ mission is peace, not Weimer isn’t aware of any shift term survival, to live to fight another justice. Congress doesn’t want inter - since then; like other commissioners, day.” state commerce interrupted by strikes she’s autonomous, a professional who Management is most often the and lockouts, says the founding legis - sets her own hours and answers first to more powerful party in negotiations, lation. her own expectations. Weimer acknowledges. FMCS was created by the Labor The job has its rewards. FMCS And what if management doesn’t Management Relations Act of 1947 commissioners are classed GS 13 in want a deal? (better known as the Taft-Hartley Act, the federal government employee hier - Weimer thinks before she responds: after the names of its Congressional archy, with a salary that starts at “Sometimes settlement isn’t both sponsors). $72,035. Unlike agents of the National sides’ desired outcome. Maybe Taft-Hartley was an anti-union Labor Relations Board, FMCS com - they’ve made an offer that they know counterattack. Twelve years after the missioners have no union of their own. can’t be swallowed. The union looks National Labor Relations Act made it But Weimer has no complaints about at this and they say to me, ‘You know the official policy of the United States the management. we can’t do this.’ And I say, ‘Well to encourage collective bargaining, What about the spiritual reward of then, there’s a message there, isn’t Taft-Hartley was passed to rein in the turning discord into harmony, and see - there?’ And the question always is explosive growth of unions. After a ‘What are the consequences the union Republican landslide in the 1946 elec - can create? And if there aren’t any …” tion, an anti-union business lobby had Labor Day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It is an Weimer trails off. enough support in Congress to pass annual national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity and well-being of our country. Labor Day was originally recognized through municipal ordinances which were passed during 1885 and 1886. From the local level the movement developed to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York Legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887 and in 1894 Congress passed legislation for a national Happy celebration. Labor Day

from With over 1.4 million members in 2005 Iron Workers and still Shopmen’s Local No. growing strong. 516 PORTLAND, OREGON Richard Padilla Jr. — President Michael Hill — Vice President representing Bill Stinde — Recording Secretary • Multnomah County Employees • Central City Concerns Mike Lappier — Business Agent/Financial Sec-Treasurer Executive Committee Members Trustees • Transition Projects Inc. • American Friends Service Committee David Payne, Cecil Pflegl, Duane Blackmore Bill Snegirev, Rex Thornton Jon Smitherman Join with all our brothers and sisters in celebrating Labor Day 2006 in Portland, Oregon, Robin Wright at our annual Labor Day Picnic at Oaks Park. Have a great day and enjoy the picnic.

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Keith Wright Joe Luna Business Manager Apprenticeship Coordinator Matt Eleazer Cindy President/Business Rep LABOR DAY is our nation’s Apprenticeship Secretary tribute to the contributions Terry Fuhrer Apprenticeship Trustees Vice President workers like YOU have made Management Joe Luna Bill Bloomquist Recording Secretary to the strength, prosperity and Fred Bromley, Alternate John Carlson Nick Zorn well-being of our country! Sgt. at Arms George Rice Ric Thompson Steve Chambers, Scott Groza Labor Brick Arbitration Board CONGRATULATIONS ! Dan Bonite, Alternate Miles McCary Rocky Hanes, Bart Jenson EEP P HE GOOD ORK Tile Arbitration Board K U T W ! Matt Eleazer Mark Roddy

PAGE 12 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 IBEW ‘Boot Camp’ Barry Moreland (right), safety director at the NECA-IBEW Local 48 Electrical Training Center in Northeast Portland, goes over the basics of climbing a ladder safely with pre- apprentices on Day 6 of a two-week “Boot Camp.” The training center conducts the boot camp for aspiring electrical apprentices. It is designed to give them a leg up as apprentices in the industry. “This prepares our apprentices to enter the electrical industry with a solid foundation of skills and knowledge necessary to build successful careers,” Moreland said. Special training is provided ranging from electrical wiring fundamentals to understanding electrical codes and establishing work site safety practices. The boot camp began Aug. 18 and ends Sept 1. Anyone interested in becoming an electrician must complete the boot camp.

Gene Pronovost, Union President & International Vice President Jeff McDonald, Secretary-Treasurer

The Office and Staff of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 555 extend our wishes for a safe and fun Labor Day in 2006! UFCW Local 555 phone: 503-684-2822 7095 SW Sandburg Street or 1-800-452-UFCW P.O. Box 23555 fax: 503-620-3816 Tigard, OR 97281-3555 website: 222.ufcw555.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 13 meeting in Oct., meetings resume in Nov. General membership meets 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., Official Elevator Constructors 23 Linn-Benton-Lincoln 20, preceded by 6 p.m. stewards meeting. Portland. Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, preceded Meetings are held at 6025 E. Burnside St. Medford area members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. by a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 12779 NE Labor Council 13, at the Angelo’s Pizza, 2161 W. Main, Medford, pre - Whitaker Way, Portland. PLEASE NOTE: Nominations Northwest Oregon ceded by a VOC meeting. Notices for officers will be held at the Oct. 12 membership meet - Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, pre - Eugene area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, ing. ceded by a 7 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 1400 Labor Council at 1174 Gateway Loop, Springfield, preceded by a VOC Salem Ave., Albany. meeting. Exterior & Interior Delegates meet 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, at IBEW Coos Bay area members meet 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. Asbestos Workers 36 Linoleum Layers 1236 #48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland. 21, at the Labor Temple, 3427 Ash St., North Bend. Specialists 2154 Executive Board meets 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, at Office & Professional Sign Painters & Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6. 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. PLEASE NOTE Members meet 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8. Members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 1125 SE Madison, Suite 207, Portland. DATE CHANGE. Employees 11 Paint Makers 1094 Meetings are at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, at OPEIU Lo - Members meet 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday, Bakery, Confectionery, Fire Fighters 452 cal 11 conference room, 7931 NE Halsey #103, Portland. Sept. 18, in the District Office, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Members meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 2807 Marion-Polk-Yamhill Portland. Tobacco Workers and NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver, Wash. Grain Millers 114 Labor Council Painters & Drywall Southern Oregon Glass Workers 740 Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, Finishers 10 Central Labor Council Executive Board meets 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, followed by a 7 p.m. general meeting at SEIU Local 503, in the meeting room at 7931 NE Halsey, Suite 102, Port - Executive Board members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. 1730 Commercial St. SE, Salem. Members meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 11105 Delegates meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, at the La - land. PLEASE NOTE: An Executive Board position NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. bor Temple, 4480 Rogue Valley Hwy. #3, Central Point. will be filled at this meeting. If interested, please contact Portland area members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, Metal Trades Council the union office at 503 256-1177. at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Eugene area members meet 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, Pile Drivers, Divers Southwestern Oregon at Best Western Grand Manor Inn, 971 Kruse Way, Executive Board meets 8 a.m. Monday, Sept. 11, at Boilermakers 500 Springfield. NOLC board room, 1125 SE Madison, Portland. & Shipwrights 2416 Central Labor Council Salem area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Delegates meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, at IBEW Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 9, at 2515 NE #48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland. Members meet 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, preceded by a Delegates meet 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11, at the Bay Columbia Blvd., Portland. Candalaria Terrace, Suite 204, 2659 Commercial St. SE, Salem. 6 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 2205 N Lombard, Area Labor Center, 3427 Ash, North Bend. Mid-Columbia Portland. Bricklayers and Allied United Association 290 Iron Workers 29 Labor Council Plasterers 82 Craftworkers 1 Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, preceded by Executive Board members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 3313 W. Members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 12812 Sept. 14, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tualatin. PLEASE Members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, at 12812 NE a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 11620 NE Ainsworth Cir., #200, Portland. 2nd, The Dalles. NE Marx St., Portland. NOTE DATE CHANGE. Marx St., Portland. Portland area members meet 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. Millwrights & Machinery Portland City & 15, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tualatin. Carpenters 1388 Iron Workers Astoria area meeting has been canceled for Sept. Erectors 711 Metropolitan Employees Bend area members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, Members meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, at 276 Shopmen 516 at the Local 290 Training Center, 2161 SW First, Red - Warner-Milne Rd., Oregon City. 189 Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, at Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, preceded mond. 11620 NE Ainsworth Cir. #300, Portland. by a 9 a.m. Executive Committee meeting, at the Car - Brookings area members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Carpenters 1715 penters Local 247 Hall, 2205 N. Lombard St., Portland. Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12. Sept. 26, at Curry County Search and Rescue, 417 Rail - General membership meets 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. road St., Brookings. Members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, preceded 26. Coos Bay area members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. by a 5 p.m. Executive Board meeting at 612 E. Labor Roundtable of Molders 139 Meetings are held at 6025 E. Burnside St. 19, at the Coos Bay Training Center, 2nd & Kruse, Coos McLoughlin, Vancouver, Wash. Bay. Southwest Washington Members meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, pre - Roofers & Waterproofers Eugene area members meet 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. Cement Masons 555 ceded by a 6 p.m. Executive Board meeting at the Car - 18, at the Eugene #290 Hall. Delegates meet 8 a.m. Friday, Sept. 15, at Home Town 49 Buffet, 7809-B Vancouver Plaza, Vancouver, Wash. penters Hall, 2205 N. Lombard, Portland. PLEASE Klamath Falls area members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, at 12812 NOTE: Nominations of officers will be held 6:30 p.m. Sept. 19, at the Moose Lodge, 1577 Oak Ave., Klamath NE Marx St., Portland. Thursday, Nov. 16, at the regular monthly meeting, at the Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7. Falls. Local Hall, 2205 N. Lombard #103, Portland. If there Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14. Medford area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. Clark, Skamania & Laborers 483 are no contests, the officers shall be declared elected at Meetings are at 5032 SE 26th Ave, Portland. (Phone: 21, at 650A Industrial Circle, White City. 503 232-4807) Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, at the the meeting according to the bylaws. If there is a contest, Roseburg area meetings will resume in Oct. W. Klickitat Counties Musicians Hall, 325 NE 20th Ave., Portland. election of officers will be held Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 Salem area members meet 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, at from 7 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. Sheet Metal 1810 Hawthorne Ave. NE, Salem. Labor Council The Dalles area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. Laborers/Vancouver 335 Multnomah County Workers 16 19, at the United Steelworkers Local 9170 Union Hall,. Delegates meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, preceded Humboldt-Del Norte Co. area members meet 5:30 by an Executive Board meeting, at the ILWU Local 4 Members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5, preceded by a Portland area VOC meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, 6:15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Vancouver Employees 88 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, at the Eureka Training Center, Hall, 1205 Ingalls St., Vancouver, Wash. at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., 832 E St., Eureka, CA. Labor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vanc., Wash. Portland. PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE. There will be no Executive Board meets 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. Columbia-Pacific 6, at the AFSCME union office. Portland members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, at USW 1097 Building Trades Members meet 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, pre - ceded by a 6:15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Delegates meet 10 a.m. Tuesdays, Sept. 5 and Sept. Retiree Meeting Notices Union Office, 91237 Old Mill Town Rd., Westport. 12, at Kirkland Union Manor II, 3535 SE 86th, Portland. Electrical Workers 48 Marine Unit meets 5 p.m. Monday, Sept 25. Korean War Veterans LLIANCE FOR ETIRED Bylaws Committee meets 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept 26, A R of Gertz Rd., then right on Levee Rd. E. Burnside, Portland. Call Michael organization is looking for new in the Executive Boardroom. AMERICANS OREGON CHAPTER to 8850.) Macaws are an endangered Arken for information at 503-239- Residential Unit meets 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 13, members. The group meets the in the Dispatch Lobby Executive Board meets 10 a.m. species of parrots that live in the rain 9858, ext. 124. General Membership meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, 4th Tuesday each month Sept 27, preceded by a 5:30 p.m. pre-meeting buffet. Thursday, Sept. 14, at 4125 NE 72nd forests of South America. Wear wa - Wasco Unit meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 13, at the Ave., Portland. Note change in meet - terproof walking shoes, the club will SHEET METAL 16 (Sept. 26), at noon at Wasco PUD, 2345 River Rd., The Dalles. ing location for this meeting only. pay the $5 donation. Lunch will fol - Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Milwaukie Elks Lodge, Coast Unit meets 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 13, at As - toria Labor Temple, 926 Duane St., Astoria. Retirees meet 9:30 a.m. Thursday, low at Izzy’s Pizza, NE 102nd and Sept. 14, at Florence Bauder’s home 13121 SE McLoughlin Blvd. EWMC meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 13, in the Ex - Sept. 28, at Westmoreland Union Halsey, Portland. For further infor - (Emerald Forest), 26000 Pittsburg ecutive Boardroom. For more information, call Sound & Communication Unit meets 6:30 p.m. Manor, 6404 SE 23rd Ave., Portland. mation and reservations, please call Rd., St. Helens, OR. (1-866-396- Max Loucks at 503-286-1464 Wednesday, Sept 20. All retirees are welcome to attend. Vera Larson, 503 252-2296. 4226). Donation to hostess who will Electrical Women of Local 48 meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, SBESTOS ORKERS Sept 19, at NIETC, 16021 NE Airport Way. A W 36 provide lunch. For carpool informa - Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Sept Retiree breakfast 9:30 a.m. Thurs - IRON WORKERS 29 tion, call Judy at 503 661-9094. 16th annual Labor 6 and Sept 20. TRANSIT 757 Meetings are at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland, un - day, Sept. 7, at the Dockside Restau - Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Wednes - Awards Banquet less otherwise noted. rant, 2047 NW Front Ave., Portland. day, Sept. 13, at JJ North’s Grand Retirees meet 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, PLEASE NOTE: IBEW Local 48 Business Office will be closed Labor Day Monday, Sept 4. Buffet, 10520 NE Halsey, Portland. Sept. 6, at Westmoreland Union slated Sept. 8 DEATH ASSESSMENTS: The following death as - CARPENTERS Manor, 6404 SE 23rd, Portland. sessments have been declared for Sept. and are payable Retired Carpenters meet for lunch at 50 cents: No. 2116, Donald J. Davis; No. 2117, VANCOUVER, Wash. — The 16th Thomas W. Shreve; and No. 2118, George R. Seymour. 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 11, at JJ NORTHWEST OREGON LABOR UA 290 annual Labor Awards Banquet will be North’s Grand Buffet, 10520 NE RETIREES COUNCIL Salem area retirees meet 12 noon held Friday, Sept. 8, at the Red Lion Halsey, Portland. Business meeting from 10 a.m. to Wednesday, Sept. 13, at Almost Electrical Workers 280 Hotel at the Quay. The event is spon - 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 11, in the Home Restaurant, 3310 Market St. Executive Board meets 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, at sored by the Labor Roundtable of ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 Northwest Oregon Labor Council NE, Salem. 32969 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. Southwest Washington. Bend Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14, at the Retirees, wives and friends meet 12 board room, at 1125 SE Madison Portland area retirees meet 10 a.m. IBEW/UA Training Center, 2161 SW First St., Red - Tickets are $45 per person. A no- noon Tuesday, Sept. 12, at the Macaw #100G, Portland. Thursday, Sept. 21, at 20210 SW mond. host bar opens at 6 p.m., with dinner at Eugene Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, at Landing Foundation, 8850 Levee Rd., Teton Ave., Tualatin. the LU 290 Training Center, 2861 Pierce Parkway, 7 p.m. The tentative keynote speaker Portland, for a guided tour. (Take NE OREGON AFSCME Eugene area Rusty Pipes meet 2 Springfield. is Congressman Brian Baird. Salem Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, at the 33rd Ave. to Marine Dr., go West to Retirees meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, at UA 290 For more information, call 360- Salem Heights Community Center, 3505 Liberty Rd. S, 13th Ave., then left on 13th to the end Sept. 19, at the AFSCME office, 6025 Training Center, Springfield. Salem. 687-5611.

PAGE 14 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 Union Jobs Mean A Better Community Happy Labor Day Roofers Local 49

Michael Thompson 5032 SE 26th Ave. Business Agent Portland, OR 97202 Financial Secretary • 503-232-4807

• Making our voices heard on the issues that affect retirement security • Educating older workers on issues that matter • Keeping Labor retirees connected to their unions 503.284.8591 [email protected] Asbestos OREGON AFL-CIO Workers Local 36 The officers, executive board and staff extend to all Union Members Labor Day Greetings! Working Together to Make Jobs Better TOM CHAMBERLAIN , President Wishes BARBARA BYRD , Secretary-Treasurer Everyone a JENNIFER SARGENT , Research & Communications Director DUKE SHEPARD , Campaign/Political Director Wishing you a safe and relaxing Labor Day Safe and Happy STEVE LANNING , Field Representative; ANDY LEHN , Political Organizer VERLE STEELE , WIA Labor Liaison; 12812 NE Marx Street, Portland, Oregon UE ARRISON Secretary; ORI AKEY Bookkeeper LABOR DAY! S H , L M , 503-232-9341 Salem 503-585-6320 Portland 503-224-3169

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 15 Painters Union kids win national scholarships

Amanda Hollis and Brock Carrier, Brock, a graduate of Hockinson children of members of the Painters and High School in Vancouver, will attend Allied Trades International Union, were Washington State University’s Vancou - each awarded $2,000 college scholar - ver campus. He is majoring in business ships, part of the S. Frank “Bud” administration and finance. Raftery Scholarship Awards program. The scholarship awards were pre - Hollis, 20, is the daughter of Brian sented Aug. 23-24 by Michael Ball, Hollis, a member of Sign Painters and business manager of District Council 5 Paint Makers Local 1094 employed at in Seattle. (Pictured above with Best wishes to our friends in organized labor Freightliner. She will be starting her Amanda Hollis. The photo on the right third year at the University of Oregon is Brock (right) and Tim Carrier.) during this 2006 Labor Day celebration. where she is majoring in business. The national scholarship contest Hollis is a graduate of Rex Putnam draws entries from union locals High School in Clackamas. throughout the nation. Ten recipients Carrier, 18, is the son of Tim Carrier, are selected each year after submitting a a member of Vancouver Painters Local 1,000 to 2,000 word essay. This year’s 360 and a business representative of topic was, “Why it’s important to attend Painters District Council 5 in Portland. union meetings.”

PAGE 16 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 Labor Day Greetings

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 17 Enjoy Your Labor Day Weekend, You’ve Earned It!

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PAGE 18 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 Custodians volunteer services prepping Portland schools for kids’ return About 40 Portland Public School District custodians returned to work early as they joined an estimated 1,800 community members and parents at the district’s annual Community Care Day Aug. 26. In the top photo, custodians Marina Bibiano and Dale VanOrtwick help weed and bark dust a garden at Rose City Elementary School in Northeast Portland. Below, custodian Dave Schleiger and his wife Dale seal the perimeter of the school to keep weeds from growing. The custodians will be returning for the first time since 2002, when they were terminated and their jobs contracted to a private firm. In October 2005, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that the firings violated Oregon’s Civil Service Law. As a result, the School District is undergoing a process to bring back the custodians for the start of the school year. The problem is, administrators want custodians to return to their jobs under a contract that reduces health insurance and pension benefits. “We still have things to be worked out with the School District, but the important thing is to be back keeping schools clean and safe for the kids,” said Tina Jacky. To date, 160 custodians have indicated their desire to return to their jobs. On Aug. 26 — a week before the first day of school — none had been assigned to a school. The custodians will return as members of

The Members and Officers of Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 11 honor all working men and women on this important holiday. Happy Labor Day 2006!

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 19 To The Labor Movement — The Folks Who Brought Us the Weekend. Have a Safe and Restful Labor Day. You Earned It!

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PAGE 20 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 21 Point of View: Old problems, new solutions

By JARED BERNSTEIN ets with squeezed paychecks after fill - face, from Social Security to health As Labor Day once again dawns on ing up their gas tanks, must be won - care to globalization and inequality, is America, we are faced with old prob - dering: With recoveries like this, who a tax cut, a private account and a pat lems and new solutions. needs recessions? — if not a shove—on the back as indi - As any economic cheerleader from So where’s the growth going? viduals are pushed to fend for them - Wall Street or Washington will tell Again, no mystery: Profits, as a share selves in the private market, suppos - you, we’ve been posting some impres - of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), are edly tapping the power of competitive sive economic statistics, the most im - the highest they’ve ever been. forces to deal with these daunting portant of which is faster productivity Like I said, it’s an old story. forces. growth. These same boosters will But this Labor Day, the story does - What’s lost amid all this rampant stress that faster growth of output per n’t stop here. hyper-individualism is the sense of hour is the main channel through Today, there is a palpable sense WITT (“we’re in this together”), the which we achieve higher living stan - among the public that our leaders are notion that there are problems — like dards. not up to the challenges they face. This those just cited — that are too large But over the past few years, that is most clear in the foreign policy for individuals to face down on their channel has been blocked, and eco - arena, but you see it on the economy own. Each of these challenges is much nomic growth is failing to reach many, as well. A recent New York more effectively addressed by pooling if not most, working families. Real Times/CBS poll revealed that for the risk, not shifting it to individuals. wages for most workers, after rising first time since they started asking the Conservatives have been pummel - for the first few years of the 2000s, question in the early 1980s, fewer than ing progressives on these issues for have fallen lately, and despite 14 per - half of the adults surveyed expect their decades, arguing with tremendous cent higher productivity, a typical children’s living standards to surpass conviction — but without convincing worker’s real weekly earnings are their own. evidence — that any steps toward the down 3 percent over this expansion. Stop and ponder this for a second. WITT agenda will kill the golden Median family income is down about America’s workers are working harder goose of growth. Whether it’s univer - $1,500 since 2000, and more than 5 and smarter than ever before, and sal health care, a higher minimum million people have been added to the we’ve got the productivity numbers to wage, greater union power, or a pause poverty rolls. prove it. But we’re growing more pes - in trade agreements while we build the In other words, the economy looks simistic about our kids’ future. policy structure to offset the down - fine until you take a closer look at the Something is awfully wrong with sides of globalization, the YOYOs people in it. And while it continues to this picture, and I believe the YOYOs have only one message: “Sounds nice, bewilder those who focus exclusively are at the root of it. but sorry ... can’t go there.” on these top-line statistics, majorities YOYO is the acronym for “you’re This Labor Day, their arguments consistently report dissatisfaction with on your own,” the philosophy that ring especially hollow. The gap be - the economy. drives much of today’s politics and tween productivity and working-fam - But it should be no mystery. Many policy. It’s the idea that the best way to ily incomes is too large to ignore, and families, stretching to meet their budg - solve the economic challenges we (Turn to Page 23 )

PAGE 22 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 ...Old problems, Have a Safe new solutions Labor Day Weekend

(From Page 22 ) mand sapped by globalization by ac - tively creating more quality job oppor - politicians do so at their peril. Be pre - tunities through full employment ini - pared to hear a lot more about these tiatives and investment in public problems as coming election cycles infrastructure, including energy inde - gear up. pendence. They will support a rational Which leaves us with the critical fiscal policy that stresses a measured Amalgamated Transit Union, question: What, precisely, will those role for government, not one based on who want our support propose to do to starving the public sector of the rev - close the gap? You’ll recognize the enues it needs to do its job. There lies YOYOs easily enough: They bemoan the continuum on which we should Division 757 the problem, and their solutions will judge those who seek our support. At be a) patience, b) privatization, c) tax one end lies YOYO’ism. Been there, We would like to wish all cuts for investors, and d) more educa - done that, and the pendulum has al - tion (the opportunities are there; ready begun its swing. The question you’re just not smart enough to take is how far toward the other end — to - Union brothers, sisters and advantage of them). ward the WITT agenda — will it The WITTs will support the educa - swing. That, ultimately, is up to us. our armed forces a safe and tion agenda, because it’s critical for equalizing opportunity. But they won’t (Jared Bernstein, senior economist healthy holiday weekend. stop there. They’ll recognize that the at the Economic Policy Institute time has come to construct the archi - (EPI), is the author of All Together Fraternally, tecture needed to start actively shaping Now: Common Sense for a Fair Econ - Jonathan J. Hunt economic outcomes, not passively ac - omy, published by Berrett-Koehler and cepting them. They will speak of uni - available from The Union Shop Online President-Business Representative versal health care (listen for “Medicare at www.aflcio.org .) for All”) and replacing the labor de - Sam F. Schwarz Vice President-Assistant Business Representative

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Anti-public employee ads presage another war on unions and government

f you’ve seen the Nurse Ratchet one. ployee pay and pensions that year — look-alike at a make-believe An important lesson from Ore - not because public employees were IDMV counter in those “Union gon’s Nine Years War is that our at - raking in raises, but because private- Facts” ads, you have witnessed more tackers have twin targets — unions sector workers were on the ropes. than just another random act of pub - and government — and a single Life is more precarious in the pri - lic employee pillory. strategic battle plan to bust the for - vate sector now. Jobs are less se - These ads are the stuff of a na - mer and disable the latter. cure, and more workers are living tionwide, anti-union, anti-govern - I used to think that Sizemore paycheck to paycheck — thanks to ment campaign as sinister and scur - made a fatal mistake when he the Chamber of Commerce types rilous as the swift boat attacks on shifted from a tax-cutting agenda who bash unions, encourage out - John Kerry. (passing Measure 47 in 1996) to an sourcing and promote free trade. It’s not surprising that the busi - attack on public employee unions Public employees are different, ness groups behind these ads don’t (failing by a narrow margin with the DMV ad seems to say, “they want their identities known. Cam - Measure 59 in 1998) and then to an don’t have to worry about their paigns like these are launched from assault on both public and private jobs.” That’s not true, given our dark places and financed with black unions (losing big with Measure 92 propensity for budget crises and the bags of hidden money. in 2000). But Sizemore was an ideo - pressures for privatization. But, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce logue. He couldn’t abide unions that when you compare the nervy arro - seems to have their fingerprints on at deliver good contracts for their gance of the Nurse Ratchet figure - least some of the money, according members or governments that de - head to the nerve-wracking insecu - to the national AFL-CIO. But their liver benefits for working families. rity of so many private sector swift boaters don’t fly real flags. In - Neither could his funders. workers, the contrast can easily fuel stead, they paint themselves with The same ideology informs the a new politics of resentment. emblems like the “Center for Union “Union Facts” attacks. Go to their That’s the weapon the swift- Facts.” Nurse Ratchet is their anti- Website and you’ll find a display of boaters are using against us. In a figurehead, lashed to the bow for statistics taking public employees to maneuver that Machiavelli would maximum shock effect. task for such alleged excesses as “8 appreciate, they’re trying to inflame Labor Day is a special day set aside for workers. We’ve seen these attacks before, hours of sick leave per month (and) resentment against public employees when national money helped to fi - benefit dollars to spend on medical and their unions by exploiting eco - We offer best wishes for safe and prosperous nance Bill Sizemore’s assault on and dental insurance.” nomic anxieties that they, the swift- times to our many friends in the labor movement. public employees, their unions and And, when you look at the states boaters and the organizations that government itself in Oregon in the in which they’re running their ads, are sponsoring them, have helped to 1990s. you find a perfect coincidence with create. In retrospect, we fought what be - those in which Americans for Lim - Winning this next war won’t be Columbia-Pacific Building & came a Nine Years War back then. It ited Government is sponsoring pro - easy. We have to fight on two fronts, Construction Trades Council began with Sizemore’s Ballot Meas - posed spending limits to curtail the reminding our fellow working peo - 3535 SE 86th Portland, Ore. 97266 ure 8, which attacked public em - good things that state governments ple that life will be more precarious ployee pay and pensions in 1994. It can do for their citizens — as that without unions, which I think most 503 774-0546 continued with two more ballot organization is doing here in Oregon Americans intuitively understand, measures targeting public employee with Measure 48. and convincing them that govern - benefits, three measures which at - The “Union Facts” attackers ment can be a force for good in their tacked our unions and four tax-limi - know that if voters can be convinced lives, on which Americans remain tation measures — only one of that public employees are privileged, divided. which was approved by the voters. those voters are more likely to en - I’m convinced that we can’t have It ended with Sizemore’s failure to dorse the anti-government agenda. strong unions today without a gov - qualify a single measure for the bal - That’s when the politics of resent - ernment that uses its resources to lot in 2002 and his organization’s ment trumps the politics of hope. make life better for working people subsequent conviction for racketeer - The last time that happened was — and vice versa. And I’m not the ing. in 1994, when state employees had only one. The swift-boaters and Now, after four years of relative just taken a wage freeze, but private- their sponsors understand that, too. quiet on the Oregon front, the forces sector workers were suffering in behind Sizemore are on the move what became the year of the angry again. We should prepare for an - white male voter. Sizemore suc - Tim Nesbitt is a former president of other war and learn from the last ceeded with his attack on public em - the Oregon AFL-CIO.

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Unions and union members should the AFL-CIO Union Label and Serv - tivists — for Labor Day gifts and gear. remind friends and neighbors about ice Trades Department, spotlights The Web address is www.aflcio. the value union members add to union-made products and services and org/shop. And check out great dis - America’s quality of life and urge highlights their quality. For more in - counts on union-made products avail - them to “Buy Union” during Union formation, visit www.unionlabel.org . able through Union Privilege at Label Week, Sept. 4-9. Also, visit the Union Shop Online www.unionpriv.org/union-made-sav - Union Label Week, sponsored by — the AFL-CIO’s online store for ac - ings.cfm .

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 25 What Our Presidents Have Said About Unions ... EE BARGAIN COUNTER FR Free ads to subscribers 15 words or less “All that serves labor serves • Include address label from front the nation. All that harms is “If I were a worker in a “The right to join a union of DEADLINE: Friday prior to publication • page and telephone number factory, the first thing I one’s choice is unquestioned treason ... if a man tells you Sorry, we cannot accept ads over would do would be join a today, and is sanctioned and Published 1st and 3rd Fridays he loves America, yet hates • the telephone labor, he is a liar...” union.” protected by law.” Send to: No commercial or business ads NW Labor Press, PO Box 13150, • 1 ad per issue Portland, OR 97213 • Type or print legibly • Group pushes sweatfree ordinance in Portland Classified ads MUST include area code on all phone numbers or they will not be published Local unions and labor rights groups and support the dignity of al workers,” whose ordinances established living have teamed up with the Portland said campaign coordinator Deborah wage standards and budgets of Automotive WANTED FURNACE oil, will pump. 503 252-4151 Sweatfree Coalition calling for the end Schwartz. $100,000 each for staffing and inde - of sweatshop labor by the City of Port - The proposed sweatfree ordinance pendent monitoring. GEM TOP camper top fits Ford LWB, excellent, $250. Sporting Goods 360 225-1398 land. includes the following provisions: As a campaign kick-off, the Portland CLASSIC CHEV, ‘79 4 dr Caprice, 350 V8, PB, PS, PW, 4 TO 5 HORSE trailer w/living quarters, goose neck, The coalition — which includes City • A sweatfree code of conduct to be Sweatfree Coalition will host Chie AC, auto, black w/black interior, 76k miles, ex cond, new awning, tack area and extras, $16,500. 503 678-2608 of Portland AFSCME Local 189, Let - signed by all contractors, subcontrac - Abad, a former sweatshop worker from tires, $1,600. 503 524-5147 ‘03 HONDA CR250, looks and runs good, many extras, ‘84 NISSAN 300ZX turbo, 5 spd, 50th collector edition, off road motorcycle, $2,750. 503 786-3588 ter Carriers Branch 82, Communica - tors and vendors which includes a liv - the U.S. territory of Saipan, at an event very nice, $4,495 OBO. 503 287-6755 ‘97 PURSUIT MOTORHOME, 60k miles, 4000 watt gen tions Workers of America Local 7901, ing wage adjusted by labor markets, Friday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m. at First Uni - ‘61 RAMBLER AMERICAN custom, red, new black con - 35 hr, new tires, new awning, $17,900. 541 993-5545 ‘03 SUZUKI SAVAGE motorcycle, 650cc, garaged, the International Longshore and Ware - rights to assembly and collective bar - tarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave,. vertible top, looks sharp, runs great, 12k. 541 745-3974 ‘92 FORD EXPLORER Sport 4x4, 5 spd, manual, 100k 3000 miles, 50 mpg, ex cond, $4,500. 503 621-3090 house Union Local 5, Jobs with Justice gaining; non-discrimination; a ban on Portland. original, dependable, clean, $2,800. 503 658-6390 (Doug) and more than over 20 different com - child labor and safe working conditions. 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Anderson folding rules, handsaws, spoke shaves, slicks, adzes, 1 COPPER BOILER w/lid, 5 antique chairs, 2 old brass Enrolled Agent/Tax Practitioner tool chests. 503 659-0009 coach lights, 24”. 503 244-1672 503- SERIOUS COLLECTOR buying original stocks for CRAFTSMAN TRACTOR, Kohler, 18hp, 275 hrs, 6 spd, 1903 Springfield, 03-A3, Krage, Japanese and K98 32” blade mower deck, extras, $725. 503 678-3243 288-3311 503-697-7757 Mauser rifles. 503 852-6791 CASH REGISTER, Casio 208 programmable, $100. JUNK CARS, removal of unwanted cars and trucks. 503 503 590-1036 (message) 314-8600 Subscribe Today! Receive 24 issues of the latest labor news and views from Oregon and southwest Washington. RATES: $13.75 a year for AFL-CIO union members; (Special group rate of $7.20 on orders of 50 or more.) MAIL TO: THE NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS , P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213. Name /Union Affiliation Address City State Zip

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(From Page 2) him it was said: “Rynerson kept the paper afloat through some mighty tough times,” a reference to the Great Depression. That statement was made by A. R. Clayton, secretary-treasurer of Multnomah Typographical Union and a bulwark in the labor paper’s management, serving as board chairman from the 1930s until his death in 1967. LABOR MOVEMENTS in many cities across the U.S. started publishing their own community weekly newspapers for the same reason that Portland unions established the Labor Press — because workers and their unions weren’t getting a fair shake from the commercial dailies. Some labor papers preceded the 1900 start of this newspaper and others began later on. Sadly, many union publications have since faded away, but the Northwest Labor Press is one of the survivors. Labor pa - pers in the West and elsewhere in the U.S. fell by the wayside for similar reasons. A major factor was a sharp rise in postal rates which began right after Con - gress and the Nixon Administration did away with the Cabinet-level Post Office Department and created the government-owned U.S. Postal Service in 1971. Within a short time, postage rates for non-profit labor publications jumped by more than 1,500 percent. In 1982, the Reagan Administration, Congress and the Postal Service Board doubled the already high postage rates for non-profit labor ‘Block Party’ on South Waterfront publications. Higher postage rates plus increases in the cost of printing and paper so overwhelmed many labor publications that they shut down. Most of the sur - Construction workers enjoyed a “Block Party” Aug. 24 on a vacant corner lot at the new South Waterfront District vivors, including the Labor Press, reduced their frequency of publication as a in Southwest Portland. Workers were treated to a barbecue, cold beverages, a live band and a dunk tank filled with money-saving necessity. The Labor Press went from printing weekly to twice a superintendents, all gratis of Williams and Dames Development, Gerdin Edlin Development and OHSU Center for month. Health and Healing. “I think we have the best craft labor in the United States right here,” Dennis Wilde of Gerdin SCORES OF AWARDS for journalistic excellence have been won by the La - Edlin told the NW Labor Press. “We’re doing work all over the country, and we get better quality work here than bor Press in journalistic competition anywhere else.” Workers have logged 1,565,876 hours through July 26, 2006 on the OHSU facility, the Meriwether, sponsored by the International Labor John Ross and Atwater Place condos (seen in background), and Block 38. “A lot of the craft hands have been here from Press Association and its successor, the International Labor Communications Association. This newspaper is the only labor publication to have been honored with an award for distinguished report - ing of public affairs from the American Political Science Association in Wash - ington, D.C. That award was for a 1964 two-part exposé of longtime corruption in the Multnomah County coroner’s of - fice, which resulted in legislative abol - ishment of the office with its duties given to the state medical examiner. The NW Labor Press reaches more readers than any labor publication in the West. S. F. Bigelow of #2416 dies

STEPHEN F. BIGELOW, a retired member of Portland-based Pile Drivers, Divers and Shipwrights Local 2416, died on Aug. 14 at age 59. A memorial service was held for him on Aug. 20 at the union’s meeting hall in the Carpenters Building at 2205 N. Lombard St. He was born on July 25, 1947 in Bend. He served in the U.S. Army and later moved to Portland, working as a pile driver out of Local 2416. He married Jean - nie Minnick in 1974. SURVIVORS INCLUDE his wife; two sons, Todd and Kevin, who is a mem - ber of Local 2416; two daughters, Deanne Neth and Dawn Bigelow; his mother, Sadie Egars; two sisters, Gail and Judy; and 10 grandchildren. Memorial contributions can be made to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Arrangements were handled by Omega Funeral and Cremation Service. Edwin McCoy of #247 dies

EDWIN I. (MACK) McCOY. a retired member of Portland Carpenters Local 247, died on Aug. 11 at age 97. He was born on April 29, 1909 near Atlanta, Missouri. He moved to the Port - land area in the 1960s and worked as a construction carpenter. He married Isabelle Buchanan in 1928 and they later were divorced. He later married Margaret Jane Burns, who died. His next wife, Pauline Willis, also died. SURVIVORS INCLUDE a son, LaRoy (Bud) McCoy; first wife, Isabelle Laurila: two grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grand - children. Funeral arrangements were by Bateman-Carroll.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 27 ‘Change Wal-Mart’ tour bus to stop in Portland Sept. 2 The “Change Wal-Mart, Change how to vote, but we have an obligation America Tour” bus tour will be in to tell you when politicians are saying Salem, Portland and Seattle Sept. 1-4, something about your company that is - part of a 35-city tour that began Aug. 1 n’t true,” Wal-Mart’s letter reads. in New York. The company’s letter prompted a re - The tour has drawn ever-growing sponse from Burger. “Wal-Mart’s letter crowds against Wal-Mart’s practices, ... attacks those who question their busi - with speakers telling how the firm ex - ness ethics and attempts to frighten ploits workers and harms communities. politicians into silence about Wal- “Wal-Mart’s race to the bottom in Mart’s practices that harm workers and wages, health care and treatment of its their communities,” she noted. workers threatens the American The tour bus will be at the Oregon dream,” said Anna Burger, chair of the State Fair’s labor booth all day on Fri - Change to Win labor federation. day, Sept. 1. The tour, run by WakeUpWalMart. On Saturday, the bus is scheduled com , is also designed to pressure the to stop at a 2 p.m. “Volunteer Appreci - one million worker anti-union retailer ation Picnic” at Overlook Park in into offering decent wages and bene - North Portland, where Portland City fits. And it’s designed to showcase the Counselor Sam Adams and other com - need for unionization of Wal-Mart’s munity leaders will speak. The park is workers, the goal of the United Food located on the corner of North Inter - and Commercial Workers, which also state and Overlook Blvd., next to is sponsoring the tour. Kaiser Permanente. Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware and From Portland, the bus will make retiring Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, (De - its final stop at a Labor Day event in mocratic presidential hopefuls in 2008) Seattle. got up on the stage in Iowa Aug. 15 to For more information about the blast Wal-Mart. Soon after that the “Change Wal-Mart, Change America company hit back. Tour,” call Jeff Anderson at 503-598- “We would never suggest to you 6339 or 1-800-452-8329, ext. 339.

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