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Members of Iron Workers Shop- men’s Local 516 and IBEW Local 48 help unveil the first American-made streetcar in 58 years during a ceremony in Portland’s South Waterfront District that featured U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. The union workers are employed at Oregon Iron Works of Clackamas through its wholly-owned subsidiary United Streetcar LLC, and sister company Maranatha Electric. The streetcars are made from 70 percent U.S. parts and comply with all federal Buy American rules. United Streetcar soon will have contracts to make six more streetcars for the City of Portland and seven cars for the City of Tucson, Arizona. New streetcars are union-made in America (Oregon) U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray he said. “This project demonstrates ex - mas-based company will soon have cars is about six to nine months out, nauer, David Wu, Kurt Schrader, and LaHood on July 1 helped unveil a new actly the kind of synergy we need in the contracts to build six streetcars for and Tucson cars could take years be - Gov. Ted Kulongoski, said at least 80 American-made — union-made — of America today. We Portland ($20 million), and seven fore manufacturing begins. cities have shown interest in the street - streetcar that soon will operate as part must invest in transportation projects streetcars for the city of Tucson, Ariz. “It can be a long process, but it will car system. DeFazio chairs the House of the Portland Streetcar Loop Project. that preserve and enhance the unique ($26 million.) Manufacture of these happen,” Brown said. “Our plan is to Subcommittee on Transportation. The streetcar prototype was built by characteristics of each neighborhood, cars alone will result in more than 250 become the leading U.S. maker of Foreign-made streetcars have been members of Iron Workers Shopmen’s just as the Portland streetcar does.” jobs, United Streetcar President Chan - modern streetcars.” running in downtown Portland since Local 516 employed at Oregon Iron United Streetcar hopes the resur - dra Brown told the Labor Press. Oregon Congressman Peter De - 2001. The streetcar loop operates on Works through its wholly-owned sub - gence of streetcars in the United States But not 250 jobs overnight. Fazio, who attended the unveiling the west side running from Legacy sidiary United Streetcar, LLC, and sis - will lead to more work. The Clacka - Fabrication of the Portland street - along with colleagues Earl Blume - Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical ter company Maranatha Electric, Center in Northwest Portland through whose workers are members of Inter - downtown and Portland State Univer - national Brotherhood of Electrical sity to South Waterfront serving Workers Local 48. OHSU’s Center for Health and Heal - It is the first streetcar made in Amer - ing, the Portland Aerial Tram and high ica since 1951, when Harry Truman rise condo developments in the district. was president, television picture tubes The extension project will add 3.35 were being tested for color, and auto - miles to the eastside of Portland, con - mobile turn signals were a luxury add- necting to the Lloyd District, the Cen - on that cost extra. tral Eastside and the Oregon Museum “I believe this is the dawn of a new era for public transportation in the of Science and Industry. United States, a new opportunity to The actual construction phase of the claim ‘Made in America,’ ” LaHood extension is estimated to cost about $77 told a crowd of political and city digni - million out of a total project cost of taries, union officials, and union work - $147 million. ers at the streetcar unveiling at the City officials estimate the project doorstep of OHSU’s Center for Health will generate 1,290 mostly family- and Healing in Portland’s South Water - wage jobs over the next two years. front district. The Portland Streetcar Loop Project LaHood, a former Republican con - has received $75 million in Small Starts gressman from Illinois, said the Port - funds from the Federal Transit Admin - land project is the kind of project fed - istration, along with $360,000 in Amer - eral and state government should be ican Recovery and Reinvestment Act investing in. monies. Twenty-million dollars in lot - “It’s a chance to generate good-pay - tery-backed bond revenues are being ing union jobs right here in the region,” used to buy the six new streetcars. JULY 17, 2009:NWLP 7/14/09 10:27 AM Page 2

Move to put Fred Meyer IBEW #280 votes Frew business manager TANGENT — In a June 30 runoff ness manager, and lauded Nicol’s to determine International Brother - work in the legislative arena. on Unfair List is tabled hood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Frew plans to focus on making Fred Meyer Inc. dodged a bullet July Commercial Workers Local 555, Bak - Local 280’s next business manager, sure IBEW members seize opportuni - 13 when the Northwest Oregon Labor ers Union Local 114, and Teamsters — one-time vice president Tim Frew out - ties in green technology jobs. Local Council Executive Board tabled a re - each represent workers at Fred Meyer. polled former business manager Den - 280’s training center has a strong pro - quest to put the retailer on its Unfair/Do “We’re sympathetic. Fred Meyer nis Caster 278 to 219. Incumbent gram in solar, Frew said. The chal - Not Patronize List. should be doing its remodeling work business manager Tim Nicol placed a lenge will be to find work for union The citing was brought to the Exec - union,” said Local 555 Secretary Treas - close third in the first round of voting members in an industry that has utive Board by Cement Masons Local urer Jeff Anderson, who requested that held June 9. tended to be nonunion. 555 and International Brotherhood of NOLC table the motion. “But, we can - With headquarters just south of Al - Frew also wants to involve more Electrical Workers Local 48. not support a secondary boycott that af - bany, Local 280 represents about young members, and expects to work Fred Meyer did not respond to the fects our members.” 1,200 construction electricians and with Local 280 President Drew Lind - labor council’s citing as requested. Local 555 is in the midst of bargain - sound and communications techni - sey to appoint younger members to The construction locals have been ing with Fred Meyer and other grocers cians in the Willamette Valley and TIM FREW committees. conducting informational picketing at in the Portland metro area and in Cen - Central Oregon. Lastly, Frew said the ideal of broth - Fred Meyer stores for several months tral Oregon. Fred Meyer bargains Frew, 51, is a 25-year IBEW mem - For the last seven years, Frew has erhood is central to his vision for the because the company is using nonunion jointly with Albertsons and Safeway us - ber starting in Local 177, Jack - worked for EC Company. local, and it’s an ethic he wants to in - contractors on its remodeling projects. ing labor consultant Food Employers sonville, Florida. He moved with his Frew began his three-year term still in members, for example, through “Fred Meyer wants our union mem - Inc. Clerks, meatcutters and central wife to Eugene in 1991 and became a July 17, and hired Local 280 members team-building community efforts like bers to spend money at their stores and checkout clerks at those stores have member of Local 280. Frew served as Bill Kisselburgh and Tom Baumann Habitat for Humanity. pharmacies, yet won’t let us bid their been working under an extended con - Local 280 vice president from 1997 to as organizer and dispatcher, respec - “Sometimes we forget about the work and, in fact, hires contractors that tract for more than a year. 2000, and was an Oregon AFL-CIO tively. Baumann served two terms as brotherhood, our roots and where we provide little in the way of prescription Additionally, Local 555 is trying to convention delegate and chair of the recording secretary and one term as came from, the oath we took,” Frew drug benefits for their workers,” said bargain a first contract for non-food em - IBEW-NECA Safety Committee. He president, ending in 2006. said. “Even in these struggling times, Bob Childers, an international repre - ployees at The Dalles Fred Meyer. has also volunteered as an organizer Frew spoke well of Nicol and if we stick together and rely on one sentative of the Operative Plasterers and Those workers voted to join the union and has served as a job site steward. Caster, the other candidates for busi - another, unions will emerge stronger.” Cement Masons International Associa - in November 2007. tion. Childers encouraged union leaders Fred Meyer is owned by Kroger Inc. to notify their trust offices about the la - of Cincinnati. bor dispute and to consider changing Three unions — United Food and pharmacies if nothing changes. Columbia Pacific Building Trades Council wants NOAA facility relocated to Newport Oregon on short-list for Ed Hall, labor liaison to U.S. Sen. Washington. Bennett Hartman Jeff Merkley (D-OR), told construction The building trades council is asking b h federal agency’s Marine union leaders July 6 that all of Oregon’s union leaders and rank-and-file work - Morris & Kaplan, llp Operations Center congressional delegation have signed ers in Oregon to send letters of support Attorneys at Law on supporting the relocation to Oregon. to NOAA, specifically to: m k The Columbia Pacific Building and In addition to the permanent jobs, • Admiral Jonathan W. Bailey, direc - Construction Trades Council has en - there will be a considerable amount of tor NOAA Corps, Office of Marine and dorsed relocating the National Oceanic construction work, Hall said. Aviation Operations, 8403 Colesville and Atmospheric Administration’s Ma - The Port of Newport owns five acres Road, Suite 500, Silver Spring, MD Oregon’s Full Service Union Law Firm rine Operations Center to the Port of of land on which NOAA could con - 20910. 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Top Democrats left off WSLC convention guest list SEATTLE — About 300 delegates low a vote on WSLC’s top-priority bill, office last year in a widely-publicized national AFL-CIO’s Industrial Union day-long pre-convention “Cap-and- will gather at the Coast Wenatchee Cen - which they had promised to support. fight with SEIU President Andy Stern. Council, the group of unions that repre - Trade and Green Jobs Conference” ter Hotel in Wenatchee Aug. 6-8 for the Adding insult to injury, the three called Stern led a group of unions to break sent workers in manufacturing indus - Aug. 5. 2009 convention of the Washington for a police investigation of an internal away from the AFL-CIO and form the tries. Together with Andrea Buffa of the • DeGraaf is national coordinator of State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. WSLC e-mail in which a WSLC staffperson re - Change to Win labor federation. Now University of Berkeley La - Take Back Your Time Day, an annual has over 500 local union affiliates, rep - ported a comment at a meeting — that Roselli is leading a breakaway from bor Center, Baugh will talk about “cap event on Oct. 24 that draws attention to resenting about 400,000 rank-and-file Democrats wouldn’t get another dime SEIU with the formation of a new inde - and trade” legislation in Congress, the problem of overwork in America. union members. from labor if they didn’t pass the bill. pendent labor organization, the Na - which will limit emissions of green - His group backs a bill in Congress that The convention’s keynote speaker The Washington State Patrol found no tional Union of Healthcare Workers. house gases but also fuel the growth of would guarantee workers get three will be , the number laws had been broken. • Baugh, a former Oregon AFL-CIO new industries. The issue is important weeks paid vacation after a year with an three official of the national AFL-CIO. Because of the rift with state Demo - secretary-treasurer, is the head of the enough that WSLC is also holding a employer. Holt Baker is running for re-election as cratic leaders, convention delegates are executive vice president on the slate of expected to discuss significant changes at the AFL-CIO con - to WSLC’s political program — to bet - vention Sept. 13-17 in Pittsburgh. ter target union support to legislators AFT trustees Kaiser nurses Local 5017 Conspicuously absent from the guest who stick by labor, regardless of their Oregon Federation of Nurses and specifically state that no meetings can “We are looking forward to leading our speaker list at WSLC’s convention are party affiliation. Health Professionals Local 5017 was be held in July. That, and alleged unau - local again after this misunderstanding any top Democratic state politicians. At Besides Holt Baker, guest speakers placed in trusteeship July 7 by its parent thorized use of dues money to promote is cleared up.” last year’s convention, Democratic Gov. include Sal Roselli, Bob Baugh and organization, American Federation of disaffiliation, gave the national union Geroux said she has a meeting Christine Gregoire and House Speaker John deGraaf. Teachers (AFT). The 17-member local grounds to trustee the local, said AFT scheduled with Weingarten in Portland Frank Chopp were honored guests. But • Roselli is a former president of union Executive Board plus three senior spokesperson Jamie Horwitz. on July 20. in March, those two plus Senate Major - United Healthcare Workers West, a di - officers, including President Kathy Ger - AFT International President Randi Contract negotiations are scheduled ity Leader Lisa Brown bowed to pres - vision of Service Employees Interna - oux, were removed from office. Florida Weingarten said, “AFT members have to begin at Kaiser Permanente in 2010. sure from Boeing Co. and refused to al - tional Union. Roselli was removed from labor lawyer Mark Richard was brought the right to disaffiliate, drop out of a Horwitz said if Local 5017 were to dis - in as trustee. bargaining coalition or make other affiliate, it would no longer be a part of Local 5017 represents more than changes their local union leaders may a 15-union coalition that bargains to - 2,500 registered nurses and health care want, but the leaders must follow the gether with Kaiser. That could jeopard - OPEIU Local 11 members professionals at Kaiser Permanente and steps outlined in the union constitution.” ize what may be tough negotiations in Providence Milwaukie Hospital. In a press statement, the ousted lead - any case: Kaiser has lost revenue in the The local was organized as an AFT ership said that while membership recession because many laid-off work - at NW Natural ratify pact affiliate in 1979. meetings are not ordinarily scheduled ers are losing health coverage. Workers at NW Natural ratified a Richards said each bargaining unit Local union leaders were moving to in July, as specified in the local bylaws, Horwitz said AFT doesn’t have a new five-year contract July 2. The vote, member also received $400 to cover a disaffiliate from AFT, and announced a the Constitution also says that special timeline, but hopes to return Local 5017 by members of Office and Professional change in pay periods. July 7 membership meeting to discuss meetings can be called. to local control as soon as possible. Employees Local 11, was 394-161. Local 11 represents approximately it. But Oregon Federation of Nurses and “We believe that everyone on the He said it is only the fourth time in Workers rejected the gas company’s 700 workers, including office staff and Health Professionals’ bylaws specify Executive Board will be vindicated of AFT’s 93-year history that it has first offer 206-230. Those ballots were outside gas and construction workers. five membership meetings a year, and all the charges made,” Geroux said. trusteed a local union. counted May 28. Stakes were a bit higher on the sec - ond ballot, as a “no” vote also repre - sented authorization for the bargaining unit to call a strike if needed. “I’m happy for the membership and for five years of labor peace and har - mony at the gas company,” said Local 11 Executive Secretary-Treasurer Mike Richards. The contract — retroactive to May 31 — includes wage increases the first year that bring job classifications to “market value.” The average increase is 2.3 percent, though some classifications will receive more than that while others receive less, Richards said. Annual wage increases the follow - ing four years will be based on a cost- of-living-adjustment formula ranging from 1 to 3 percent. Workers will not see any increases in their health insurance co-payments over the next two years, and no more than a 3 percent out-of-pocket increase annually between 2011 and 2014. Any increases will be based on cost of living. The pact also guarantees no layoffs for workers hired before April 1, 2004 (approximately 75 percent of the work - force). Union members did, however, agree to up to 20 furlough days per 12 month period. Every worker will be subject to furloughs, but not until nego - tiations are held between the company and the union, Richards said. Furlough days were a key sticking point in the rejected proposal. NWN initially sought 45 days per 12 month period for every employee.

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a 6:30 Executive Board meeting, at 2110 State St., Official ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS LABORERS 483 Salem. PORTLAND CITY & 23 MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES METROPOLITAN EMPLOYEES Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, preceded Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at the Mu - METAL TRADES COUNCIL by a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 12779 NE sicians Hall, 325 NE 20th Ave., Portland. Delegates meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 28. 189 Whitaker Way, Portland. Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. General membership meets 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, July Notices 28. Meetings are at the IBEW Local 48 Hall, 15937 NE LABORERS /V ANCOUVER 335 Airport Way, Portland. Executive Board meets 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. EXTERIOR & I NTERIOR Members meet 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3, preceded by a Meetings are at 6025 E. Burnside, Portland. UTO ECHANICS 6:15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Vancouver La - A M 1005 SPECIALISTS 2154 bor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vanc., Wash. MULTNOMAH COUNTY Executive Board meets 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. Members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 1125 ROOFERS & W ATERPROOFERS 12. All members are invited to attend Executive Board SE Madison, Suite 207, Portland. MPLOYEES meetings. ANE OUNTY E 88 PLEASE NOTE: Membership meetings and Shop L C Executive Board meets 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5. 49 General membership meets 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6. Steward training have been canceled for August. Regular IRE IGHTERS ABOR OUNCIL Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. membership meetings will resume Saturday, Sept. 19, at F F 452 L C 19, preceded by a 6 p.m. stewards’ meeting. Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 2807 Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, at 1116 Meetings are at 6025 E. Burnside, Portland. Meetings are at 5032 SE 26th Ave., Portland. (Phone: 10 a.m. preceded by a 9 a.m. shop steward training class. NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver, Wash. South A St., Springfield. 503 232-4807) All meetings and elections are held at our Union Hall, 3645 SE 32nd Avenue Portland, Oregon. ORTHWEST REGON FIRE FIGHTERS 1660 LANE , C OOS , C URRY & N O SALEM BUILDING TRADES No meetings in July and August. LABOR COUNCIL Delegates meet 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, at the BAKERY , C ONFECTIONERY , DOUGLAS BUILDING TRADES Delegates meet 7 p.m. Monday, July 27, at IBEW Lo - IBEW 280 Training Center, 33309 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. Delegates meet at noon Wednesday, July 22, at the cal 48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland. TOBACCO WORKERS AND GLASS WORKERS 740 Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Parkway, NOTE: First nominations for executive secretary- Executive Board members meet 5 p.m. Thursday, Springfield. treasurer and 2nd vice president will take place at this SHEET METAL WORKERS 16 GRAIN MILLERS 114 Aug. 6, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. meeting. Portland area VOC members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 28, in Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. Aug. 5, at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE the meeting room at 7931 NE Halsey, Suite 205, Port - 6, at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. LINN -B ENTON -L INCOLN 178th Ave., Portland. land. PLEASE NOTE: An opening for an Executive Eugene area members meet 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, Board position will be filled at this meeting. OPERATING ENGINEERS 701 at Best Western Grand Manor Inn, 971 Kruse Way, LABOR COUNCIL District 1 members meet 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3, at at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., Springfield. Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, pre - Longview Electricians Hall, 1145 Commerce Ave., Portland Salem area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, at ceded by a 7 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 1400 Longview. Medford area members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. BRICKLAYERS AND ALLIED Candalaria Terrace, Suite 204, 2659 Commercial St. SE, Salem Ave., Albany. District 4 members meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, at Wild River Pizza, 2684 N. Pacific Hwy., Medford. Salem. 5, at Cousin’s Restaurant, 2115 W. 6th, The Dalles. Eugene area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, CRAFTWORKERS 1 at the Local 16 Hall, 4748 Franklin Blvd., Eugene. Members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, at 12812 NE District 4 members meet 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, INOLEUM AYERS Coos Bay area members meet 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. Marx St., Portland. L L 1236 at DTC Office, 148 Main St., Hermiston. INSULATORS 36 Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, July District 5 members meet 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at 20, at Abby’s Pizza, 997 First St., Coos Bay. Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12. 23, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Gladstone Union Hall, 555 E. First St., Gladstone. CARPENTERS 247 Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. Executive Board meets 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3, at District 1 members meet 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, at Meetings are at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Gladstone Union Hall, 555 E. First St., Gladstone. SOUTHERN OREGON Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, at Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. the Carpenters Hall, 2205 N. Lombard, Portland. District 3 members meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, 20, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. NOTE: Meet - at North Bend/Coos Bay Labor Center, 3427 Ash St., CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL IRON WORKERS 29 ing is one week early. North Bend. Delegates meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, at the Labor Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, preceded by District 3 members meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. Temple, 4480 Rogue Valley Hwy.#3, Central Point. CARPENTERS 1388 a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 11620 NE Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 276 12, at Rogue Regency Inn, 2300 Biddle Rd., Medford. Ainsworth Circle #200, Portland. MACHINISTS 63 District 2 members meet 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, Warner-Milne Rd., Oregon City. Executive Board meets 4 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5. at the Comfort Suites, 969 Kruse Way, Springfield. SOUTHWESTERN OREGON Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 8. CARPENTERS 1715 IRON WORKERS PLEASE NOTE: Shop steward training has been CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL canceled for August. Boeing stewards meet at 9 a.m. AINTERS RYWALL Delegates meet 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3, at the Bay Members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, preceded SHOPMEN 516 NOTE : The annual picnic will be held July 18 at Oaks P & D Area Labor Center, 3427 Ash, North Bend. by a 5 p.m. Executive Board meeting at 612 E. Regular meetings canceled July and August and will Park Area #1. McLoughlin, Vancouver, Wash. FINISHERS 10 resume in September. Meetings are at 3645 SE 32nd Ave., Portland. Members meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd. 2nd Floor, Portland. TRANSIT 757 CLARK , S KAMANIA & T-shirts, sweatshirts and coveralls are for sale in the Charter members meet 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 20th, LABOR ROUNDTABLE OF MACHINISTS 1432 office. at the Salvation Army, Rose Center for Seniors, 211 NE W. K LICKITAT COUNTIES Swing and graveyard shift members meet at noon Each member may have a chance to win 3 months 18th Ave, Portland (18th & Sandy Blvd, adjacent to the SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON Wednesday, Aug. 12. dues by attending the meeting each month. Jon Speer ATU office.) Charter day members meet 10 a.m. Tues - Delegates meet 8 a.m. Friday, July 31, at Hometown Reg. membership meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12. would have had his dues paid for 3 months if he had been day, July 21st, at Schoppert Hall, 1801 NE Couch, Port - LABOR COUNCIL Buffet, 7809-B Vancouver Plaza Dr., Vancouver, Wash. eetings are at 3645 SE 32nd Ave., Portland. Delegates meet 6 p.m. Thursday, July 23, preceded by M at the June 17 meeting. land. an Executive Board meeting, at the ILWU Local 4 Hall, Salem members meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21st, at 1205 Ingalls St., Vancouver, Wash. the West Salem Branch Public Library 395 Glen Creek LABORERS 320 MARION -P OLK -Y AMHILL Road, Salem. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, at Joe Edgar PLASTERERS 82 Members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 12812 Eugene members meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July Hall, Teamsters’ Complex, 1850 NE 162nd Ave., Port - LABOR COUNCIL NE Marx St., Portland. 22nd, and Eugene day members meet 10 a.m. Thursday, COLUMBIA -P ACIFIC land. Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, preceded by July 23rd, at the Woodworkers Local Lodge, 1124 South BUILDING TRADES A St., Springfield. Delegates meet 10 a.m. Tuesdays, July 21, July 28 and Corvallis members meet 7:45 p.m. Thursday, July Aug. 4, in Kirkland Union Manor II, 3535 SE 86th, Port - 23rd, at Woodstock Pizza, 1045 NW Kings Blvd, Cor - land. vallis Retiree Meeting Notices Medford members meet 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 23rd, at the Hampton Inn, 1122 Morrow Rd., Medford. ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 Vancouver members meet 7 p.m. Sunday, July 26th, at Electrical Women of Local 48 meets 5:30 p.m. Fri - the Laborers Hall, 2121 NE Andresen, Vancouver, WA. day, July 17, at 5th Quadrant, 3901b N. Williams, Port - ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED from your vacations and hobbies. For Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 3645 SE 32nd Tillamook members meet 1:00 p.m. Sunday, July land. AMERICANS OREGON CHAPTER more info, please call Glenn Hodgkin - Ave., Portland for a brief business 26th, at 212 Main Street, next door to Beach Pancake Bylaws Committee meets 5:30 p.m. Monday, July 20, House in Tillamook. in the Executive Boardroom. Retirees meet 10 a.m. Thursday, son at 503 656-0028. meeting and lunch at a restaurant to be AMR Northwest Josephine County, LAMAR Adver - General Membership Meeting, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, at Westmoreland Union determined at the meeting. tising and Valley Transit -See your liaison officers. July 22, in the Meeting Hall. Doors open at 5:30pm. PLEASE NOTE: ATU members are invited to attend Your Business Manager Meeting, 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. Manor, 6404 SE 23rd Ave., Portland. ELECTRICAL WORKERS 280 any of the above-listed meetings. Saturday, Jul 25, in the Meeting Hall. All retirees are welcome to attend. Retirees meet between 11:45 a.m. NORTHWEST OREGON LABOR Marine Unit meets 5 p.m. Monday, July 27, in the ETIREES OUNCIL Meeting Hall . Executive Board meets 10 a.m. and noon Monday, Aug. 10, at Home - R C UNITED ASSOCIATION 290 Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Aug. 5 Thursday, Aug. 13, in the Northwest town Buffet on Lancaster atLancaster Business meeting from 10 a.m. to Portland area members meet 7:30 p.m. Friday, July and Aug. 19, in the Executive Boardroom. Oregon Labor Council board room, at Mall in Salem. If you have any ques - 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10, in the 17, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tualatin. Electrical Workers Minority Caucus meets 5 p.m. Astoria area meetings will resume in September. Tuesday, Aug. 11, in the Executive Boardroom. 1125 SE Madison, Portland. tions, please give Don Ball a call at Northwest Oregon Labor Council Bend area members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, Sound and Communication Unit meets 6:00 p.m. 541-327-3388. board room, at 1125 SE Madison at the Local 290 Training Center, 2161 SW First, Red - Wednesday, Aug. 12, in the Meeting Hall. mond. Residential Unit meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, CARPENTERS #103G, Portland. Brookings area members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, at Curry County Search and Rescue, 417 Rail - in the Dispatch Lobby. Retired Carpenters meet for lunch GLASS WORKERS 740 Vancouver Meeting, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, at road St., Brookings. Round Table Pizza, 5016 NE Thurston, Vancouver. 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10, at Home - Retirees meet 11 a.m. Thursday, OREGON AFSCME Coos Bay area members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, July Coast Unit meets 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, at As - town Buffet, (by Mall 205) 10452A Aug. 20, at Izzy’s Pizza & Buffet, Retirees meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 21, at the Coos Bay Training Center, 2nd & Kruse. toria Labor Temple, 926 Duane St., Astoria. Eugene area members meet 6:30 p.m. Monday, July Wasco Unit meets 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, at SE Washington, Portland. 1307 NE 102nd Ave., Portland. 21, at the AFSCME office, 6025 E 20, at the Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Park - Pioneer Center, Bingen Meeting Rm, 971 NE Washing - Burnside, Portland. Call Michael way, Springfield. ton St, White Salmon, WA. Klamath Falls area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Meetings are at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland, un - ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 LINOLEUM , C ARPET WORKERS 1236 Arken for information at 1-800-521- July 21, at 4816 S 6th St., Klamath Falls. less otherwise noted. Retirees, wives and friends meet Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Friday, 5954 ext. 226. Medford area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, July DEATH ASSESSMENTS: The following death as - 23, at 950 Industrial Circle, White City. sessments have been declared for July and are payable at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, at the Aug. 14, at Izzy’s Pizza & Buffet, Roseburg area meetings will resume in September. 50 cents each: No. 2206, Raymond A. Stensrud; No. home of Mel and Marge Stearns, 1307 NE 102nd Ave., Portland. TRANSIT UNION 757 Salem area members meet 6 p.m. Monday, July 20, at 2207, Clayton B. Sherry; and No. 2208, Jerry B. Adding - 1810 Hawthorne Ave. NE, Salem. ton. 15015 NE Multnomah (Corner of Retirees meet 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, The Dalles area meetings will resume in September. 148th across from Glendovere Golf INSULATORS 36 Aug. 5, at Westmoreland Union Humboldt-Del Norte Co. area members meet 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, at the Eureka Training Center, ELECTRICAL WORKERS 280 Course.), Portland for the annual Retiree breakfast 9:30 a.m. Thurs - Manor, 6404 SE 23rd, Portland. 634 California St., Eureka. Executive Board meets 1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3, at potluck picnic. The club will provide day, Aug. 6, at the Dockside Restau - 32969 Hwy. 99E, Tangent, OR. chicken, coffee, punch and place set - rant, 2047 NW Front Ave., Portland. UNITED ASSOCIATION 290 Bend Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, at the UNITED STEELWORKERS 1097 IBEW/UA Training Center, 2161 SW First St., Red - tings. Bring 1 food item to share. En - Retiree meetings will resume in Members meet 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, pre - ceded by a 5:45 p.m. Executive Board meeting, in the mond. joy the afternoon visiting and remi - MACHINISTS September. Joint Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, at union office building, 91237 Old Mill Town Rd., West - 33309 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. niscing with photos and mementos Retired Machinists meet 10 a.m. port, Oregon.

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Working Family Party gets bill to start ‘fusion’ voting SALEM — The Oregon Working backed him because of the Oregon House and 25 to 5 in the Senate. • Strengthening workers’ right to or - ganized labor. That meant Albies could Families Party is ready to get more ac - Working Families Party nomination. There was some doubt about ganize and negotiate with employers. test the waters for the Working Families tive in electoral politics next year, This kind of fusion existed in Oregon whether the governor would sign it. The party collected enough signa - Party without jeopardizing the election thanks to an election reform that took and other states in the 1800s, and con - Leaders of the Democratic Party of Ore - tures to earn statewide ballot status in of a labor-endorsed candidate from an - three years to pass. tributed to the election of populist politi - gon were calling for a veto. But fusion 2006, but it has been reluctant to run other party. To keep its ballot status, the Oregonlive.com reported July 9 that cians. In 2007, advocates of fusion had backers took their case to the editorial “spoiler” candidates — candidates who Working Families Party needed 1 per - Gov. Ted Kulongoski intends to sign commitments from bipartisan majori - boards of and the Eugene are unlikely to win themselves, but cent of the statewide vote; it got almost Senate Bill 326, which will restore a ties in each legislative chamber, but Register-Guard, both of which penned might take enough votes away from the 11 percent, 161,655 votes — more than kind of “fusion” voting to Oregon. Un - couldn’t get Democratic leaders to al - strong calls for the governor to sign the more favorable major party candidate to twice that of the Green Party candidate der fusion voting, candidates can be low a vote. bill. And Dudley got a statewide radio result in a win for the less favorable ma - and very near the turnout for the con - nominated by more than one political That leadership opposition contin - audience for her arguments July 8, with jor party candidate. servative Constitution Party. And the party. It’s a practice that opens up the ued this year, so fusion backers pushed a guest appearance on Oregon Public However, to maintain its ballot sta - level of support for the Working Fami - two-party-dominated political system a compromise proposal instead, which Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud. tus, the party did run one statewide can - lies Party was higher — above 16 per - and makes minor parties like the union- they called “aggregated fusion” or “fu - Once the bill is signed, Oregon didate in the 2008 election, and the re - cent — in counties that tend to vote Re - backed Oregon Working Families Party sion lite.” As spelled out in SB 326, bal - Working Families Party will turn its en - sults proved quite interesting. J. Ashlee publican: Crook, Grant, Harney, more competitive. lots will list, after candidates’ names, ergy to putting theory into practice. The Albies, a Portland civil rights lawyer Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Oregon Working Families Party co- all parties that have nominated them. idea of the party is that working people’s and Working Families Party supporter, Umatilla, Union and Wheeler. chair Barbara Dudley told the Labor So voters will see that a candidate has interests aren’t well enough represented was the party’s candidate for Oregon at - Dudley said those results seemed to Press SB 326 isn’t all they’d hoped for, more than one party’s backing. by the Democratic or Republican par - torney general. Fellow candidate John validate the premise of the party — that but it’s enough that the party can get ac - “It gives voters information about ties, and need a party that will focus on Kroger was virtually assured of victory, working people alienated by the two tive nominating candidates for the No - candidates,” Dudley said, “but doesn’t bread-and-butter issues. 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At Oregon Legislature For some union-backed bills — better luck next time By DON McINTOSH countability added — like wage and against it; the Democrats were Betsy ability” under a state program that lets The Legislature will meet in a lim - Associate Editor benefit standards for the jobs that result Johnson, Rick Metsger, Martha government agencies contract out to ited special session in February 2010, SALEM —The Democratic-con - from the projects, or even just a report Schrader, and Joanne Verger. non-profits that employ the disabled. and then face election in November trolled Oregon Legislature’s 2009 ses - on the number and quality of the jobs. Building trades unions were unable [Oregon School Employees Association 2010 before the next regular session be - sion was successful overall for organ - Lawmakers voted to extend the BETC to win passage of a bill requiring pay - has argued that some “qualified rehabil - gins again in January 2011. ized labor. Lawmakers increased the to electric vehicle manufacturing, and ment of the prevailing wage to con - itation facilities” are abusing the law by Guiney said the Oregon AFL-CIO’s share of taxes paid by the wealthiest, in - curtail it for wind farms. But union pro - struction workers employed by large employing people with little or no real individual ratings of lawmakers will be creased aid to the unemployed, and posals for accountability and job stan - projects that receive enterprise zone disability.] released in late summer. made it harder for employers to brow - dards just didn’t gain traction. property tax abatements. beat workers during union campaigns. Meanwhile, HB 2831, a collection And a bill making it easier to get per - But other union-backed proposals failed of union-backed reforms to Oregon’s mits to construct pipelines, such as sev - Governor signs Oregon AFL-CIO’s to win passage. Some of those may rise Public Employee Collective Bargaining eral proposed for liquid natural gas, to the top of labor’s priority list next Act, passed the House 35 to 21, but failed to win approval. top priorty bill with little fanfare time around. failed on a 14-16 vote in the Senate. The “A lot of pro-worker legislation had Reform of the state’s Business En - bill was intended to undo parts of SB a hard time in the Senate,” Guiney said. SALEM — Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski was scheduled to travel to Bend July ergy Tax Credit (BETC) was one high 750, which was passed by a Republican The Oregon House has at least half a 15 to sign a law that renames U.S. 97 “World War II Veterans Historic Highway.” priority, said Oregon AFL-CIO House and Senate in 1995 to weaken la - dozen “labor legislators” who have had There were signing ceremonies scheduled for laws mandating school coaches be spokesperson Elana Guiney. BETC bor law for public employees. But this direct membership in or involvement trained to recognize concussions, making roads safer for farm equipment, and re - gives businesses back 50 cents for every year’s Democratic lawmakers heard with unions, but the Senate has only one quiring that insurance companies pay for phenylketonuria treatment. Press releases dollar they put into wind or solar en - from city and county leaders that the re - — former Communications Workers of gave public notice when he signed bills clarifying sex offender reporting proce - ergy, and the price tag of that incentive forms would increase costs and make America leader Diane Rosenbaum. dures, and eliminating minor requirements for appointment to the Governor’s Vet - has swelled to over $100 million a year. management harder. All 12 Republi - Rosenbaum pushed hard for a erans Affairs Advisory Committee. The Oregon AFL-CIO wanted some ac - cans and four Senate Democrats voted union-backed bill providing a modest But on June 30, when the governor signed the Oregon AFL-CIO’s top priority benefit for workers who take family bill of the session, there was no fanfare, no signing ceremony, no announcement of leave. Workers would get the benefit af - any kind. SB 519, the Worker Freedom Act, will give workers the right to skip ter the birth or adoption of a child or to management-led anti-union meetings. The Oregon AFL-CIO requested a signing care for a family member with a serious ceremony, but only learned the bill was signed after the fact. health condition. But that too went “Our members who testified on the bill would have loved to be there” said Ore - Local Motion nowhere. Business associations op - gon AFL-CIO spokesperson Elana Guiney. posed it and said, incredibly, that it Still, Guiney said, the bill was signed into law, and the labor federation is ap - would hurt working people. preciative of that fact. Oregon is the first to pass this particular advance for work - June 2009 And some perennial proposals ers, and the national AFL-CIO hopes to get other states to do the same. Plans were Union certifications and decertifications in Oregon and Southwest backed by some unions never got off afoot as of press time for national AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka Washington, as reported by the National Labor Relations Board and the ground, such as: to call Kulongoski and express thanks. the Oregon Employment Relations Board • Setting minimum nurse-to-patient Former Oregon AFL-CIO president Tim Nesbitt, now the governor’s deputy staffing ratios at hospitals; chief of staff, said Kulongoski was busy with the budget when SB 519 was signed. • Reining in the overuse of part-time Rem Nivens, the governor’s spokesperson, said there are too many bills to sign Recognition elections no-benefit faculty at community col - for the governor to have a ceremony for each one, but added that plans will be Name of employer Results: leges; and made for a private ceremony in which the governor will sign a parchment copy of Union Union • Narrowing the definition of “dis - the bill in the presence of representatives of organized labor. Date Name of union Location Yes No

UPS Ground Freight (decertification) 82 6/4 Machinists Portland Alstom APComPower 30 6/10 Laborers Local 320 Troutdale Lincoln County Road Department 14 00 6/16 Lincoln Cty EA vs. CWA Newport Lincoln County Transportation Service District 14 0 6/23 Lincoln Cty EA Newport City of Ontario 21 0 6/23 Ontario Police Assn Ontario

Recognition by card check Name of employer Location Date Name of union Number of employees Lane County Fire District #1 Veneta 6/15 Fire Fighters Local 3242 5 Requests for recognition election Name of employer Location Name of union Number of employees Tricont Trucking Company Portland Machinists District Lodge 24 6 YRC Inc. (unit of clerical workers at a trucking company) Portland Teamsters Local 81 11

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IBEW Local 125’s Oregonian runs for AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Elizabeth (Liz) Shuler, a former Shuler was a Democratic Party ac - Council. ship and training, unemployment and lobbyist and communications director tivist in college. She worked summer In 1998, Shuler was assigned by telecommunications. for IBEW Local 125 in Portland, is clerical jobs at Portland General Elec - then-International President J. J. Barry Shuler is active with Women in the running for secretary-treasurer of the tric, where her father, Lance, was a to coordinate the IBEW’s ground mo - Trades and is a member of the board national AFL-CIO on a ticket with lineman and member of IBEW Local bilization effort to battle the Proposi - of the Women’s Campaign Fund, a bi - Richard Trumka, who is running for 125, and her mother was an estimator tion 226 “paycheck deception” cam - partisan fundraising organization that president, and Arlene Holt Baker, who in service and design. paign in California. aims to boost the number of women is seeking re-election as executive Shuler was initiated into IBEW Later that year, she was appointed holding public office. For several vice president. Local 125 in 1993, where she was the international representative and years she has volunteered with the In - Trumka is currently secretary- local’s political/legislative director un - moved to Washington, D.C. In that ternational Women’s Democracy Cen - treasurer of the labor federation. He der Business Manager Bill Miller un - job, she lobbied on issues such as en - ter, a mentoring program that encour - hopes to succeed President John til 1998. For several legislative ses - ergy and electricity, Davis-Bacon, ages women to run for office and seek Sweeney, who is retiring. sions, she led the local’s effort at the health care, transportation, apprentice - change in countries overseas. Election of officers will take place State Capitol to prevent the passage of LIZ SHULER at the 26th Constitutional Convention electricity deregulation in Oregon. of the AFL-CIO Sept. 13-17 in Pitts - ing, telecommunications, broadcast - She built successful coalitions with al - burgh. ing and government, education, re - lied organizations, even against pow - Zachary Gregory Junemann, president of search, political/legislative affairs, hu - erful interests such as Enron. During International Federation of Profes - man services, media and safety. The that time, she traveled across the lo - Zabinsky sional and Technical Engineers, also appointment made her one of the cal’s multi-state jurisdiction conduct - • Social Security is running for secretary-treasurer. highest ranking women in IBEW’s ing Construction Organizing Mem - • SSI - Disability Claims If successful, Shuler would be the history. bership Education and Training highest ranking woman ever elected to Prior to that, Shuler served as inter - (COMET) and Membership Educa - Personal Attention To Every Case an AFL-CIO leadership post — and national representative in the IBEW’s tion and Mobilization for Organizing Working For Disability Rights also the youngest at age 39. Political/Legislative Affairs Depart - (MEMO) courses. Since 1983 Shuler has served as executive as - ment, where she lobbied on numerous She served on the State of Ore - NO FEE WITHOUT RECOVERY sistant to IBEW President Edwin Hill gon’s Management-Labor Advisory issues and helped implement the 621 SW Morrison, Portland since June 2004, where she oversees IBEW’s political program. Committee on Workers’ Compensa - the work and budgeting of 11 depart - A graduate of the University of tion and also was a delegate to the ments, including utility, manufactur - Oregon with a degree in journalism, Northwest Oregon Central Labor 503-223-8517

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