(ISSN 0023-6667) Shutdown, slowdown on horizon for state By the time you receive this Council 5 or the Minnesota Transportation, K-12 educa- issue of the Labor World in the Association of .Professional tion and natural resources are mail it will be approaching the Employees. Both are also in without funding. "11th Hour" for Republican contract talks with the state. A special judge has been Governor Tim Pawlenty, On Tuesday workers and appointed with the task of rec- Republican House Speaker their unions joined a "People's ommending which services Steve Sviggum, and Democratic Legislature" coalition of labor, should be considered as being Senate Majority Leader Dean non-profits and faith groups at "essential government." Johnson. The three have until noon at the State Capitol to call Marcia Avner of the midnight Thursday to come to on those policymakers to agree Minnesota Council of Non- An Injury To One Is An Injury To All! an agreement on revenue and on a budget and avoid a govern- Profits says most Minnesotans Published by and for Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body Affiliated Unions spending to keep the State of ment shutdown. "support increased revenues to WEDNESDAY VOL. 111 Minnesota operating. Actually it would be more of insure that we have adequate In the crosshairs of the government slowdown as some health care, adequate funding JUNE 29, 2005 NO. 1 Governor and Legislature's state functions will operate, for education, and a transporta- inability to get there work done, either because they have been tion-transit system that work. are 15,800 state employees who funded, like higher education, or When we need revenues for the may be laid off. Most are mem- are considered necessary public things that are important, we are bers of two unions, AFSCME safety services. willing to pay taxes, if we're going to do the things that we WHAT’S INSIDE THIS ISSUE? care about and that matter to us." Labor Day Picnic to Bayfront Festival Park?...page 2 Without a budget thousands Letters, opinions...page 3 of low-income Minnesotans are Molly Ivins smells sell-outs and pay-offs...page 4 in jeopardy of losing health care Mental illness affects many, in many ways .....page 6 coverage under MinnesotaCare. Iraqi union leaders visit Minnesota.....page 9 "We're most concerned about people who depend on state Noel Beasley: Labor at a fork, not crossroad...page 10 services for health, for educa- Trades build luxury playhouses to benefit hospice.....page 11 tion, for transportation, and who Beaufeaux, Kuberra awarded Trades scholarships.....page 12 would find themselves not able Enough corporate criminals to hold a convention...page 14 to access job services, food pro- Here's why we like Gov. Floyd B. Olson.....page 16 grams, mental health programs, early childhood programs. Beds for the needy program works well....page 19 Things that people count on," NLRB rules against Spot Bar on 19 counts.....page 20 said Avner. Stressing unity, Sweeney ticket says it'll run By Mark Gruenberg have already voted to leave unions must be unified--the PAI Staff Writer should their reform demands theme of the re-election WASHINGTON (PAI)-- fail, and UNITE HERE and the announcement. “I have no "Joe the Clown" of MAPE Local 1701 made a sword for Stressing the need for labor Teamsters. Combined, those intention of backing down” Branden Matten at a Union Family Solidarity Picnic last unity in the face of an anti- unions have just over 4 million from fighting for workers “just Saturday in Cloquet's Pinehurst Park but made him promise worker federal government and members. because the fight is getting to use it for good, not evil. AFSCME Council 5 unions spon- business hostility, AFL-CIO “We have done what we tougher,” Sweeney said. “As sored the picnic to allow families to have a little fun while President John J. Sweeney and promised we would do,” when long as I am president, our soli- finding out about contract negotiations and the looming state his ticket formally announced their team ousted former AFL- darity will never be sacrificed.” government shutdown that could affect up to 16,000 workers. they would seek re-election to CIO President Thomas Dona- Sweeney urged the dissident labor’s top posts. hue a decade ago, said Trumka. unions to concentrate their criti- Labor refiles CAFTA worker Delegates to the federation’s He then ran through a list of cism and efforts on both anti- convention, July 25-28 in Chi- achievements and initiatives union companies--he named rights petition as vote nears cago, will vote on whether to ranging from establishing an Wal-Mart and Verizon Wireless- WASHINGTON (PAI)--As lobbying on the controversial retain Sweeney, Secretary-Trea- organizing institute to increas- -and the Bush administration. Central American Free Trade Agreement increased in June, labor surer Richard Trumka and Exe- ing labor’s share of the elec- “When we aim our guns, it picked up more allies in its fight against the job-losing so-called cutive Vice-President Linda torate to leading campaigns shouldn’t be in a circle” at each “free trade” treaty. Chavez-Thompson for another against trade treaties and corpo- other, he cautioned. Doing so Avote on CAFTA may come at anytime in Congress. four years. At a June 20 press rate greed. would only aid labor’s political Latest to join the anti-CAFTA crusade were the U.S. Business conference, the three claimed Sweeney and Chavez- enemies, he warned. and Industrial Council, a smaller lobby than the pro-CAFTA support from unions represent- Thompson, citing their histories “They hope like hell that our Chamber of Commerce and similar groups, and lawmakers from ing 63 percent of the federa- as fighters for workers, prom- frustrations in the struggle to textile areas of the South, including some Republicans. tion’s 12.95 million members. ised to continue and increase the defeat them will somehow But even with that support, CAFTA foes, led by the AFL-CIO, But if the three win at efforts. “We’ll continue our divide us,” he added. worry that the Bush administration and its business backers could Chicago, they face potential direction to rebuild” the labor But SEIU and UFCW have use the same tactics--offering legislative favors and deals--that withdrawal by up to four movement’s “power, moral already voted to leave, or disaf- Democratic President Clinton used to win congressional passage of unions: The Service Employees force and numbers of union filiate, should their plans for CAFTA’s model, NAFTA, a decade ago. and the United Food and workers,” she said. radical change fail in Chicago. That worry, in turn, prompted the federation to turn up the heat Commercial Workers, which But in the face of all that, Those plans include assigning on the issue by re-filing a petition with the federal government union membership in the private “core industries” to specific charging that four of the six CAFTA nations already break labor sector has continued to decline, unions, downgrading politics in rights and should not get preferred trade treatment. Our to the point where unions repre- favor of organizing, and incen- The GOP-run Congress must vote on legislation to enable sent only 1 of every 12 private tives to merge unions without CAFTA--not the treaty itself--within 90 days after a Bush request. industry workers and one of strategic organizing plans into The vote must be up or down, with no amendments allowed. The 109th every 8 overall. That’s led dis- larger unions. Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committees have sidents to demand more And in their response to already drafted CAFTA bills, which would let it remove all tariffs Anniversary resources, talent and money go Sweeney’s formal re-election and other trade barriers between the U.S. and the CAFTA nations. to organizing, with unions candidacy, the dissidents said But they’re waiting for Bush’s signal to go ahead. That may not Issue assigned “core industries” and “unity that does not unite work- come until after Congress’ Independence Day recess. to lessen the emphasis on poli- ers to build power is a false The CAFTA bills do not include labor rights protections, and tics. Sweeney, looking for- unity. The AFL-CIO officers’ neither does the treaty. It only asks CAFTA nations to enforce their Thanks ward, said unions must do both. approach is a status quo unity own (weak) laws. An amendment by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), To succeed in both organiz- that will simply reinforce the See CAFTA...page 18 To You! ing and politics, he added, See Sweeney slate...page 8 Labor Day Picnic moving to Bayfront Park The Duluth AFL-CIO Cen- had been suggested by Mayor Last year the picnic lost over tral Labor Body's all-volunteer Herb Bergson last year as a way $1,000 due to a lack of dona- Labor Day Picnic is moving to increase the visibility and tions and this year it is $2,000 again. Only a few years ago it scope of the picnic. behind last year's total. left Fairmont Park at the zoo "We haven't finalized every- For more information or to where it had been held for over thing yet or done a walk through get involved in the picnic call a 100 years. It moved to Park with Julene Boe of the Parks Yvonne Harvey at 728-1779. Point, which enhanced logistics, Department, but we'll be hold- The Iron Range Labor As- parking, footing and just about ing it at Bayfront," said Central sembly will hold its Second Pre- everything else in accommodat- Body President Alan Netland. Labor Day Celebration Sunday, ing crowds well over 5,000. "It will give us a great opportu- Sept. 4 at Virginia's Olcott Park. Now its moving out of that nity to improve the picnic in a Chair Joe Moren can be reached great location to an even better lot of ways, including music." at 218-263-5704. one: Bayfront Festival Park be- Netland said the AFL-CIO's You can also expect the Carl- hind the Aquarium. Again, park- Director of Organizing Stuart ton Carlton Central Labor Body ing, accessibility...every aspect Acuff has been invited to attend and the Superior Federation of of the picnic will improve. this year and is expected to be Labor to carry on their long The idea of using Bayfront the featured speaker. standing Labor Day celebra- tions. Dan Reed's (right) play, "Not Red, Just a Little Pink" was Cloquet picket very effective Lakeview Apartments sponsored by the Duluth Central Body for the ILC convention In the last issue of the Labor World a page one picture from of Two Harbors here last weekend and was a huge hit with the 90 delegates. Tuesday, May 24 showed business representatives of almost all 17 Ron Hillstrom, left, plays the part of a 1950's hard drinking, Duluth Building & Construction Trades Council-affiliated unions 319 8th Street blacklisted, union-supporting, socialist, immigrant Finn, picketing the Cloquet McDonald's restaurant. You couldn't have a Taking applications on one, 1- while Reed is his childhood buddy who becomes a conserva- much more effective picket. bedroom unit ($375) & one tive businessman and lay preacher. By 9:30 the next morning the non-union contractor, MNKOTA, kitchenette ($325), includes was loading their equipment and heading back to Frazee. heat and off-street parking! Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 10 "We got called that Tuesday night by the project manager, Nor- Call 834-2610 or 834-5284 Son of Brainerd, who asked if we wouldn't picket the next day and Retirees’ Luncheon allow MNKOTA to strip their forms so they could pull out," said Larry Anderson of Laborers Local 1091. "Nor-Son said the job Tues., July 5, 1:00 p.m., Upper Deck would go 100 percent union. Boy, it's nice when a picket works!" Brent Pykkonen of Operating Engineers Local 49 said he's a rel- atively new business representative and was really impressed by I.U.O.E. Local 70 the success. Monthly Arrowhead Regional Meeting "Our work on the job had gone to a union contractor to begin with but I was there for the other trades," he said. "It's amazing Tuesday, July 12, 2005, 5:00 P.M. what we can do when we work together." Duluth Labor Center, Hall B Dick Lally, Business Manager (651) 646-4566

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Of Course We Deliver! Of Course We “You bet we’re a Union House” Pop Beer ~Affiliated with UNITE HERE Local 99~ Saturday July 16, Noon Congratulations, Labor World Pike Lake Labor’s voice for 109 years Auto Club, Duluth Jim Guyer Bar-B-Que (Chicken & pork) GOLF TOURNAMENT Happy Birthday! (Contact Dick Barlage, 218-879-8914) JUST COME & ENJOY! United Food & Commercial Workers All active & retired members Local 1116 and their families are invited. Steven Gilbertson, President ~Dennis J. Marchetti, Business Representative

PAGE 2 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 Thanks for DADS support On behalf of the officers and affiliated members of the Duluth Building & Construction Trades Council, we wish to thank the fol- lowing people, companies, and organizations who donated to our 15th Annual DADS (Dollars Against Diabetes) DAY Golf Event About a month or so ago I held Saturday, June 11. Through the efforts of our supporters we got a call saying the state DFL were able to raise over $9,000 to help find a cure for diabetes. Party had hired a new education A special thanks to Paul Schweiger of the Sieben, Grose, Von director or someone and would I Holtum & Carey law firm who, for the 13th year in a row, donated like to interview her as she's golf shirts for our event. highly qualified. I said "no" but We also wish to thank the Duluth AFL-CIO Community Ser- let me know if she ever does vices Committee and Michelle McEwen of Carpenter’s Local anything worth noting. Union #361 for all their help in planning and preparing this event I'm gotten so crusty I gener- and registration the day of. ally don't care to hear what The 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winners of this years event were: someone's plan is--show me 1st Place: Teamsters Local 346 – 63 - Doug Dunsmoor, Brian some results. I by-passed that Moe, Randy DeRoche, Gary Alvar credo yesterday during the 2nd Place: Zenith Administrators – 64 - Denny White, Dusty lunch hour though because I Sorby, Randy Bowe, Jerry Alander didn't have anything else to do. I thought processes from going to He wishes our leadership in 3rd Place: Johnson Wilson Constructors – 65 - Ron Johnson, went to listen to the new DFL the "we've heard all this before" Washington and St. Paul felt Shane Johnson, John Simenson, Bob Ryan chair, Brian Melendez, who corner. that way. Falsani, Balmer, Peterson, Quinn Mayor Herb Bergson came through the area to meet Melendez has heard that He said the possible shut- some folks. That the state chair & Beyer Teamsters 346 everywhere he's gone he said. down of state government is a Duluth Building & Const. Trades UBC Eastern District would actually come to town When he went to Alexandria, he manufactured event to further was a big enough draw. Sieben, Grose, Von Holtum & Carey Great Lakes Aquarium was told no one from the party Governor Tim Pawlenty's politi- Northern Capital Management LLC Carpenters 361 I liked what I heard and saw had been there in 25 years. That cal future. from him. I also liked what I Reinhart & Mahoney Carpenters 606 says something about the age of "If he had wanted to prove Johnson Wilson Builders Painter’s 106 heard from other folks that at- DFL activists when they can go his worth he should show that tended. They let him know that Associated General Contractors/MN AFSCME 66 back that far doesn't it? he can run a state, not shut it Lakes & Plains Regional Council IBEW 31 we don't So he will convene executive down," Melendez said. But it is know much Iron Range Building & Const. Trades Cement Masons 633 council meetings in Alexandria, more important for Pawlenty to Brown, Andrew & Signorelli, PA North Shore Bank about the Owatonna, Duluth and other prove himself to Karl Rove (the state party Hermantown Federal Credit Union Iron Workers 512 places to get the party out of the political knife fighter as Molly Sundquist & Associates IBEW 242 because it Metro area to see what's hap- Ivins calls him) than to the peo- doesn't show Operating Engineers 49 Sammy’s Pizza pening. About time. ple of Minnesota. MN State Building & Const. Trades Minnesota AFL-CIO itself around He said when they go to Alex In his new position he gets to here. Melen- Iron Workers District Council Asbestos Workers 49 they will hold a seminar on the be the attack dog and he said he Zenith Administrators Segal Co. dez says that importance of the "L" in DFL. kind of likes that "because the will change. Duluth AFL-CIO Central Body UNITE HERE 99 Without labor's influence our guys in control of the Republi- United Way Greater Duluth Carpenters 1644 I had to con- democracy would look a lot dif- can Party are bad guys." trol my Wilson-McShane Laborers 1091 Brian Melendez ferent, it'd look like a plutocracy Melendez won his job by on- Wells Fargo Bank Bricklayers #1 Chapter 3 Melendez, who's 40 said. Okay, ly 12 votes but had people from Lakehead Constructors Plumbers & Fitters 11 the guy's a lawyer but he said he both ends of the party support- Sheet Metal Workers 10 ~NOTICE~ grew up in a trailer in a state ing him said Carlton County Next issues of Labor World park. Plutocracies are govern- DFL Chair Mike Sundin. The Respectfully, are July 13 & 27; Aug. 10 ment by the wealthy and that's best part is Melendez and the Jerry Alander, Event Chairman & 31; Sept. 14 & 28; Oct. what I thought we had. Well guy he beat, Josh Syrjamaki, are 12 & 26; Nov. 9 & 22; anyway he said he wants to re- working together to bring the Schraw shows his own bias turn government to the people. DFL back together. We'll see. LABOR WORLD Editor: Known office of publication Suppose there is a three-person committee deciding a contested 2002 London Road, Room 110 How important is a label? By Charlie Mercer, President, Union Label & Service Trades issue under a labor contract. Suppose the union appoints one per- Duluth, MN 55812 son and the employer appoints another. Suppose the contract calls (218) 728-4469 Dept., AFL-CIO, www.unionlabel.org FAX: (218) 724-1413 for the appointment of a neutral person drawn from the communi- How important is a label? Well, in the late 1990s the Common- ty to serve as the third member of the committee. [email protected] wealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI) was willing to www.laborworld.org Now ask yourself this question. Does the mere fact that a per- ESTABLISHED 1896 pay $9 million to lobbyist Jack Abramoff to block a union-backed son happens to belong to a labor union (a different union from the Owned by Unions affiliated with the campaign to require employers in that U.S. territory to apply mini- one engaged in the dispute in question) automatically make that Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body mal labor standards-a $5.15 minimum wage and to adopt sweat person unfit to serve? School Board Member Bevan Schraw seems 6 shop protections or lose the right to display "Made in USA labels to think so. on goods produced there. At an April 19 meeting Mr. Schraw complained about the third 7 At that time, the garment industry was getting fat by using in- party hearing a dispute involving the school district and the teach- Periodical Postage dentured workers-mostly Chinese immigrants-and shipping duty ers’ local. The problem was that this third party happened to belong Paid Duluth, MN free products to an unsuspecting U.S. public. to a union—a different union but still a union. Mr. Schraw com- The (Union Label & Service Trades) Department was part of a Larry Sillanpa, Editor/Manager plained that this was clearly unfair. non-partisan coalition to press for reforms, but we were thwarted in “When you set up a committee of a neutral party you can’t have Deborah Skoglund, Bookkeeper that effort when the Republican leadership of the House. refused to Published 24 times per year a biased neutral party,” he said. allow the measure to come to the floor for a vote. Now I should say that in this particular case the “biased” union Subscriptions: $20 Annually If you recognize Jack Abramoff's name, its because he's now in POSTMASTER: member happened to be my wife, Eileen Zeitz Hudelson. But what the eye of the storm of the ethics charges swamping current House really bothers me here is the wholly unwarranted assumption that Send address changes to: Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tx). Records now surfacing in the 2002 London Rd., Room 110 all union members are biased and unfair. Would Mr. Schraw say Duluth, MN 55812 wake of this investigation show that Mr. Abramoff had some 200 the same thing about everyone who has ever sat on the other side of contacts with the Bush White House in support of various clients. the table? Union members are not inherently biased and unfair. For Board of Directors During our Saipan Scam campaign in the late 1990s, Abramoff's President/Treas Mikael Sundin, Mr. Schraw to suggest that they are is a clear sign of an irrational correspondence shows that he was unable to secure meetings with prejudice against all union members. Painters 106; VP Paul Iverson, officials of the Clinton Administration who dismissed him as a BMWE 1710; Sec. Al LaFrenier, Dick Hudelson, Member of TAUUP at UW-S UNITE HERE; Jim Walters, hired gun for the offshore garment producers. Plumbers & Steamfitters 11; If you need further contrasts between the Bush Administration Tom Selinski, IBEW 242; Laurie and its predecessors, consider the fact that the current Assistant This Day In History from www.workdayminnesota.org Johnson, AFSCME Co 5; Lynette Secretary of Labor for administration is now Patrick Pizzella, one Swanberg, MN Nurses Assn; Mike of Abramoff's chief lieutenants arranging congressional junkets to June 29, 1948 Kuitu, Operating Engineers 49 CNMI garment factories back in the 1990s. The United Auto Workers won its first contract at Caterpillar. LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 PAGE 3 Sell-outs, cave-ins, and payoffs create agenda By the San Diego Union-Tribune. ty-five percent of its contribu- Molly Ivins You will not be amazed to learn tions have gone to Republicans. the congressman in question In addition, the tobacco in- As that great (Randy Cunningham) oversees dustry has spent hundreds of American, Deep the committee that grants con- millions on lobbying over the Throat, never said, tracts to that very defense firm. same years. In 1998, the tobacco "Follow the mon- The story gets better by the companies settled with several ey." (The line is by day -- the congressman lives on states for a reported $246 bil- William Goldman, who wrote a yacht in D.C. owned by the lion. Individual states have won the movie, "All the President's defense contractor, and employ- settlements larger than $10 bil- Men"). Keeping your eye on the ees of the defense firm say they lion, yet the federal government shell with the pea under it is not were threatened with firing if is apparently planning to run a easy when the right-wing echo they did not give to the compa- national anti-smoking campaign chamber continually takes up ny PAC. Well shut my mouth! on a fraction of that. One expert new chapters in the culture wars Meanwhile, the Senate has witness for the government said -- the dread case of the senator endorsed the Bush administra- he had been asked to change his who didn't, in fact, say the Unit- tion's do-nothing policy on testimony on how much such a ed States is as bad as the late So- global warming by approving a program would cost, but refused viet Union and the equally grave measure that avoids mandatory to do so. This action has several perennial constitutional amend- reductions of heat-trapping pol- names -- sell-out, cave-in, give- ment to prevent the menace of lution. These are the same bozos away and payoff among them. flag desecration. who refuse to require better When this administration's Meanwhile, largely unno- mileage per gallon from the au- Department of Interior promises ticed and unreported, the drum- to industry, even though the you that increased grazing on beat of giveaways to big corpo- technology is readily available. public lands will improve the rations continues: unnecessary The Senate also passed an in- quality of rangelands, do you tax breaks for the undeserving, ventory of offshore oil and gas believe it? Would your answer more green lights for the ram- resources, apparently a step to- be influenced by news that once pant exploitation of the environ- ward drilling in coastal waters again the advice of scientists in ment, and all manner of theft that are now off-limits to the oil the field was ignored by the po- and skullduggery. companies. See above reference litical appointees in charge? Seriously, this administration to bozos. A government biologist and is starting to look like that old Now here's a jewel of a give- a hydrologist, both retired from television show in which con- away to those deserving citi- the Bureau of Land Manage- testants lined up their shopping zens, the tobacco companies. ment, said their conclusion that carts in a grocery store and, on The Justice Department sudden- the proposed new grazing rules the signal, began running ly dropped its request from $130 might adversely affect water around throwing every valuable billion in the long-running to- quality and wildlife, including item they could find in their bacco case to $10 billion. Jus- endangered species, was ex- carts. Whoever grabbed the tice Department lawyers say po- cised and replaced with lan- most high-priced items won. litical appointees at the top of guage justifying less stringent The contestants here and now the department were responsible regulation. are corporations and lobbyists. for the decision. "They rewrote everything. The amusing case of the con- The tobacco industry con- It's a crime," said one of the sci- gressman whose house was tributed a total of $54.1 million entists. The ranchers are happy bought by the founder of a de- in individual, PAC and soft about the proposed new regs, fense firm for $700,000 more money from 1989 through last but how happy are they going to than it was worth is being ex- year, according to Capital Eye, a be when the rangeland deterio- ceptionally well-reported by the newsletter put out by the Center rates? congressman's hometown paper, for Responsive Politics. Seven- And how many times are we going to let the administration get away with just changing sci- ence to suit its own political pur- W e A p p r e c i a t e Y o u r poses? HAPPY The R's have passed an ener- P a t r o n a g e ! gy bill that increases our depen- ANNIVERSARY dence on foreign oil by 85 per- cent by 2025, according to a The only Reef 2004 report by the Energy Infor- LABOR WORLD worth steering mation Administration. No wonder the White House has to into has keep changing the science in these reports. TEAMSTERS Happy Hour 4-7 p.m., One striking feature of the bill is a nifty little waiver for the LOCAL 346 manufacturers of MTBE that 7 Days a week lets them avoid liability suits Minnesota/Wisconsin filed since September 2003. Tuesday is karaoke night MTBE is a toxic substance now Patrick Radzak working its way into various Secretary-Treasurer Live bands Friday & Saturday, water supply sources. The waiv- Colin Hayes Roderick Alstead er is worth billions to the manu- President Vice President 9 to 1 a.m., and... facturers of MTBE, who happen The largest game room in town! to be clustered in the home dis- David LaBorde Les Kundo tricts of Majority Leader Tom Recording Secretary Business Agent We can set-up small employee parties DeLay and Texas Rep. Joe Bar- ton, who is chairman of the Barry Johnson James McManigle House Energy and Commerce Trustee Trustee THE REEF Committee. Surprise! Wilhelmus Bothma © 2005 CREATORS SYNDICATE, In the Labor Temple, 2002 London Road, Duluth INC., www.creators.com Trustee

PAGE 4 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 Health costs spotlighted, while FMLA attacked Many things have come and gone in SPOTLIGHT ON would make public the extent to newly adopted children, seri- HIDDEN HEALTH COSTS which large corporations, such ously ill family members or the past 109 years. Thankfully the New federal legislation as Wal-Mart, shift their employ- themselves. Labor World wasn’t one of them. ee health care costs onto taxpay- Witnesses from business ers. Introduced June 22, the groups said the law should be Health Care Accountability Act narrowed. But currently it cov- Happy Anniversary! would require states to disclose ers only about 40 percent of the which employers have a high private-sector workforce. number of employees on public "Instead of scaling back Superior health care assistance, such as worker protections in the FM- Medicaid. The federal legisla- LA, Congress should expand tion is modeled on similar mea- the FMLA to enable more work- Federation sures the AFL-CIO has worked ers to meet their families' needs to introduce in state legislatures. without compromising income Some 30 states have introduced or job security," said AFL-CIO of Labor or plan to introduce such legis- President Sweeney. We’re seeking donations to ensure lation. In 12 of the 13 states another successful Labor Day Dance. Please contact Presi- where data have been released dent Janice Terry at 394-2896 if you can help. THANKS! and analyzed, Wal-Mart work- ers are at the top or near the top when it comes to relying on Looks like an “Atta Boy” is in order... public health programs. For more information visit Congratulations, Labor World http://www.WalMartCostsYou.c om and http://www.WakeUp- WalMart.com . It’s all just FAMILY LEAVE raw dirt, *Must be of equal or lesser value: select from special collection of frames and plastic lenses. UNDER ATTACK-- steel, wood, The Bush administration's brick and Department of Labor plans to is- sue new regulations revising the concrete Family and Medical Leave Act until it DULUTH • SUPERIOR (FMLA), and Big Business GRAND RAPIDS • CLOQUET gets shaped groups are urging drastic roll- by skilled We’ll bill for backs of the leave law. Since the law was enacted in 1993, more hands and your insurance than 50 million workers have minds. benefits used the unpaid leave it pro- vides to take care of newborn or LABORERS LOCAL 1097 Happy Anniversary IRON RANGE & NORTHERN MINNESOTA Happy 109th from Anniversary, Don L. Bye Labor World 1000 Torrey Building, Duluth, MN 55802 (218) 733-0745 HUNEGS, STONE, LENEAVE, Ranked among the best of Labor Lawyers KVAS & THORNTON Attorneys at Law Representing Railway Labor and Practicing in All Aspects of Labor Law for over a Half Century

On 109 years of advocating for the HUNEGS, STONE, LENEAVE, KVAS & THORNTON working families 1650 International Centre 900 Second Avenue South of our region. Minneapolis, MN 55402 612-339-4511 1-800-328-4340 Arnie Flagstad, Investigator, Superior, Wisconsin, 715-394-5876 PAGE 5 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 Work & Health Trade Union Directory By Phillip L. Polakoff, M. D. “ The world is run by those who show up.” Mental Illness: AFSCME COUNCIL 5— President Mike CARPENTERS LOCAL UNION NO. 361— INTL. ASSOCIATION OF HEAT & FROST Types and prevalence Buesing, Local 1011; VP Deb Bloom, Local Meets 2nd Tues. of the month at 6:30 p.m. at INSULATORS AND ASBESTOS 66; Sec. Pam Lofquist, Local 1092; Treas. Training Center. Pres. Steve Risacher, VP WORKERS LOCAL NO. 49—Meets 2nd Fri- Clifford Poehler, Local 2938; Michael Lowry, Rec. Sec. Rick Berg, Fin. day each month, 8 p.m., Duluth Labor Tem- One-quarter of Americans are said to be affected by a mental ill- Director Eliot Seide; Area office, 211 West Sec. Chuck Thaler; Treas. Chuck Aspoas, ple. Bus. Mgr. Don Holte, 2002 London Rd., ness, according to a major new government study. Results of the 2nd St., 722-0577; Field Reps. Chuck Thaler, Tony Radzak Room 210, Duluth 55812, 724-3223; 5238 Miller Trunk Hwy., 724-3297. Pres. Wade Lee; VP Garth Lee; Rec.Sec. study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), were pub- AFSCME Co. 5—LOCAL 66—Meets 1st Brian Howard; Apprenticeship Coordinator lished in the June issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. Tues. at 7:00 p.m. in the AFSCME Hall, CEMENT MASONS, PLASTERERS & Pat Meisner; Fin. Sec./Treas. Gary Nervick Arrowhead Place, 211 W. 2nd St. SHOPHANDS LOCAL 633—Duluth Area Of- The report, referred to as a “snapshot” of the nation’s mental Pres. Alan Netland; VP Deb Bloom; Treas. fice: Denny White, 2002 London Road, #100, INTL. LONGSHOREMEN’S ASSN. LOCAL Joe Griffiths, Rec. Sec. Kathy Stevens. Duluth 55812; 218-724-2323; Iron Range NO. 1037— 424 Tower Ave., meets quarterly health, is issued once every 10 years. Union office, 211 W. 2nd St., Duluth, MN Area Office: Mike Syversrud, 606 1/2 15th at the union hall, times will be posted. (715) Specifically, the researchers found that one-quarter of Ameri- 55802, 722-0577. St. N., Virginia 55792; 218-741-2300 392-7635. President John Reed, Vice-Presi- Meetings to be announced. dent Stanley Ericksen cans had a psychiatric disorder in the year prior to the survey-- AFSCME Co. 5 - LOCAL 1123—City of Two Harbors workers. Meets 1st Wed. of each COMMUNICATION WORKERS OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER down slightly from 28 percent in the report a decade ago. month at 3:30 p.m. in City Hall, Two Harbors. AMERICA LOCAL 7214 — Meets 3rd Thurs. CARRIERS, BRANCH 114 MERGED— For the first time, the latest report also attempted to assess the Pres. Gayle Ostman,733 Valley Rd, Two of month at 8 p.m. VFW Post 137, 2024 W. Meets 1st Tues. of each month at 7 p.m., Harbors 55616; VP Brad Jones; Sec. Lori Superior St.; President Terri Newman 723- Reef Bar (back room) President Gaynelle quality of mental health care that Americans get. The findings were Lynch; Treas. Paul J. Johnson. 4225; VP (US West and others) Ken Cusick; Johnson, 727-4327 (office), P.O. Box 16583, also troubling. Only one-third of the people with a disorder re- Sec.-Treas. Rawn Nilsen, 723-4225 Duluth 55816; VP Robert Marshall; Record- AFSCME Co. 5 - LOCAL 1934— ing Secretary Paul Oikarinen; Financial Sec- ceived even “minimally adequate” care. Minimally adequate is de- St. Louis Co. Essential Jail Employees. DULUTH AFL-CIO CENTRAL LABOR retary. Arden Stabs; Treasurer Karl Pettersen Meets 3rd Wed. at 3:15 at the jail. BODY —Meets 2nd Thurs. each month, 7:00 fined as getting at least two months of appropriate medication and Pres. Dan Marchetti, 726-2345, Sec. Peggy p.m., Wellstone Hall, Labor Temple, 2002 NATIONAL CONF. FIREMEN & OILERS seeing a doctor at least four times. Or, undergoing at least eight Kelley, Treas. Heather Ninefeldt London Rd., (218) 724-1413, President Alan SEIU 956—Meets 4th Saturdays, 9 a.m. Netland, AFSCME 66; VP Beth McCuskey, Meetings held at Central High School. psychotherapy sessions of 30 minutes or more. AFSCME Co. 5 - LOCAL 3558 - Non-profit Duluth Fed. of Teachers; Rec. Sec. Ellen Pres. Jerome DeRosier, 315 W. 5th St. employees. Meets 3rd Thurs.each month at Hanson, AFSCME 3801; Treas. Sheldon Duluth 55806; Treas. Dennis McDonald, Several factors help to explain the inadequate level of care: 5 p.m. at AFSCME Hall, 211 W. 2nd St. Christopherson, Operators 70; Reading Clerk 4007 N. 21st., Superior, 54880, 626-4512; About 60 percent of the people identified as having a mental disor- Pres. Michelle Fremling ; VP Pat Anderson; Larry Sillanpa, MN News Guild/Typographi- Sec. Steve Lundberg, 8304 Grand Ave, Sec. Barbara Johnson; Executive Board, cal 37002; Duluth 55807, 624-0915. der didn’t seek treatment. Many of those who did seek treatment Margaret Johnson, Jill Sequin DULUTH BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION NORTHERN WISCONSIN BLDG. & CON- opted out of conventional medical psychiatry altogether. AFSCME LOCAL 695 - Meets 4th Tuesday TRADES COUNCIL—Meets 3rd Tues. of the STRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL—Meets A third of all mental health visits were for unproven alternative each month except March, July & November month at 3:00 p.m. in Freeman Hall of the the 3rd Wed. of each month at the Old in Hall B, Duluth Labor Center. March, July & Labor Temple. Pres. Craig Olson, Painters & Towne Bar. Pres. Greg Sayles, (218) 727- therapies such as dietary supplements and acupuncture. November meetings in Moose Lake. Allied Trades 106, 724-6466; Treas. Jim 2199, 4402 Airpark Blvd., Duluth, MN 55811; President John McGovern, 393-5718 The researchers interviewed nearly 9,300 randomly selected Brown, IBEW 242, 728-6895; Rec. Sec. Don V-P James Pierce, (715) 822-5565 Americans in 34 states between February 2001 and April 2003. AFSCME LOCAL 3801 - Representing UMD Watkins, Laborers 1091, 728-5151 Sec.-Treas. Larry Anderson, (218) 428-2722 Clerical & Technical employees, 106 Kirby DULUTH MAILERS UNION LOCAL ML-62 OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 49 — Since the last survey in 1994, mental health care has become a Student Center. Meets 2nd Wed., 12:00 pm, Meets 3rd Mon. of each month, Lower Level, Meets 2nd Tues. of month at 7:30 p.m., huge industry. The nation spends more than $100 billion a year on KSC, 3rd Floor; Business Rep. Duluth Labor Center, 2002 London Rd. Hall B, Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London John Westmoreland, 1-866-485-5785 Pres. Wm. Stafford: Sec-Treas. Keith Delfos- Rd., Bus. Rep. Brent Pykkonen, 724-3840, mental health care, with government health care programs picking se, 4215 W. 4th St. Duluth, MN 55807, 218- Room. 112, Duluth Labor Temple. up two-thirds of the tab. AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION 628-3017. All members attend each meeting. AFL-CIO Greater Northland Area Local— Drug companies sold about $20 billion in antidepressant and an- P.O. Box 16321, Duluth, MN 55816. IBEW LOCAL 31 (UTILITY WORKERS)— OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 70— Membership meetings held monthly in Rm.105, Duluth Labor Temple, 728-4248. Union office, 2417 Larpenteur Ave. W., St. tipsychotic medications in the U.S. over the past year. Duluth, bi-monthly on Iron Range (in odd Officers: Pres. Tim Ryan; VP Mike Arezzo; Paul, MN 55113, 651-646-4566. Bus. Mgr. The study covered the most common mental conditions, ranging numbered months), 218-722-3350 Rec. Sec. Bob Fonger; Treas. Dan Leslie; Dick Lally. Meets 2nd Tues. at 5 p.m. in the Bus. Mgr./Fin. Sec. Robert F. Kasper; Asst. Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 London Rd. from obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention deficit disorder ARROWHEAD CHAPTER, COALITION OF Bus. Mgr. Curt Leno. Monthly Meetings: LABOR UNION WOMEN - For info on Duluth: 1st Wednesdays, 7:00 pm, Labor PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES LOCAL 106 to depression and bipolar disorder. Rarer conditions such as schiz- CLUW contact Pres. Lorraine Reinke, 628- Temple; Iron Range: Gilbert VFW, 2nd Tues- Meets 1st Wed., 6:00 p.m., Duluth Labor ophrenia, which is believed to affect just 1 percent of the popula- 2111, VP Yvonne Harvey, Sec Janet Nelson, days, 7:15 pm; Grand Rapids Blandin Work- Temple. President Dennis Setter, 4015 ers Hall, 2nd Wednesdays, 7:30 pm; Grand Ave., Duluth, MN, 55807; VP Ron tion, were not included in the snapshot. Prevalence of other disor- BRlCKLAYERS & ALLIED Folkestad; Rec. Sec. Mikael Sundin; Fin. CRAFTWORKERS LOCAL NO. 1—Chapter Western Area: 3rd Wednesdays, all at 7:30 ders included anxiety disorder (28.8 percent of Americans at some pm: Jan., Brainerd Legion; Feb., Park Rapids Sec. Brian Koyle; Bus. Rep. Craig Olson, #3, Duluth & Hibbing meetings are listed in Duluth Labor Temple, Room 106, 724-6466. time in their life), impulse-control (24.8 percent), mood (20.8 per- the quarterly update newsletter. Chairman Legion; March, Nisswa Tasty Pizza North; Jim Stebe, Recording Secretary Stan April, Little Falls Cabin Fever; May, Ironton PLUMBERS AND STEAMFITTERS LOCAL cent), and substance abuse (14.6 percent). Paczynski, Sergeant at Arms Jerry Lund, Legion; June, Jenkins VFW; July, Park 11 U.A.— Meets 1st Thursdays at the union Field Rep. Jim Stebe, 218-724-8374 Rapids Legion; Aug., Little Falls Cabin Fever; office, 4402 Airpark Blvd. Pres. Jeff DaVeau; The authors of the study found that most Americans will meet Sept./Oct. Brainerd Legion; Nov., Nisswa VP Dave Carlson; Rec. Sec. Butch Liebaert; the diagnostic criteria for one or more mental health disorders at BRIDGE, STRUCTURAL, ORNAMENTAL Tasty Pizza N.; Dec., Wadena Bus. Mgr./Fin. Sec. Greg Sayles, Ass’t Bus. AND REINFORCING IRON WORKERS Superior:, all meetings at Shamrock Pizza Mgr. Mike Rydberg, 727-2199 some time in their lives, with the first onset usually in childhood or LOCAL 512—Duluth, MN sub-office and 4th Tuesdays, 7 pm meeting place, Duluth Labor Temple, 2002 SHEET METAL WORKERS LOCAL 10— adolescence. London Rd., (218) 724-5073. IBEW LOCAL 242 (CONST., R.T.V., MFG., Duluth-Superior area meets 2nd Mondays The study found that a large number of people never seek treat- Pres. Frank Vento, B.M./F.S.-T. Charlie Witt, MAINT.)—Rm.111, Labor Temple, 728-6895. at 5:00 p.m. in Wellstone Hall, Duluth Labor B.A. Darrell Godbout, Rec. Sec. Al Greyson Pres. Dennis Tammen; Rec. Sec. Dale Temple, 2002 London Rd. ment for their disorders. This is especially true for substance abuse Carlson; Treas. Stan Nordwall; Bus Mgr./Fin. Iron Range meets 2nd Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m., and impulse control disorders, for which nearly half of all lifetime BROTHERHOOD OF MAINTENANCE OF Sec. Jim Brown. Meetings 4th Wed. of every Regency Inn, Beltline & Howard, Hibbing. WAY EMPLOYEES LODGE 1710—Meets month at Duluth Labor Temple. Unit meet- Bemidji area meets 3rd Thursdays of Jan., cases failed to ever obtain treatment. 1st Mon. of each month at 7 p.m., O’Malley's ings - Brainerd, American Legion, 7:30 p.m., April, July & Oct. at 6:00 pm, Carpenters Hall Bar, Boundary Ave.; Gen. Chair Mike Nagle, 1st Wed. each month. Bus. Mgr. Craig Sandberg, 1681 E Cope If you have questions or suggestions for articles, write Dr. Phillip L. 6049 Seville Rd. Duluth, MN 55811, 729- INTL. BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL Ave., St Paul, MN 55109, 612-770-2388-89. Polakoff at 171 Alvarado Road, Berkeley, Calif., 94705. 9786; 1st Vice Chair Frank Malec; 2nd Vice Duluth-Superior-lron Range area. Bus. Rep. Chair/Sec-Treas Jim Sonneson WORKERS, LOCAL 294 - Meets 4th Thurs. (Copyright 2005 by Dr. Phillip L. Polakoff and medical writer Jack Tucker/PAI) of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the Local 294 Dennis Marchetti, 2002 London Rd., Duluth BUILDING & GENERAL LABORERS Building located at 503 E. 16th St., Hibbing, 55812, 724-6873. LOCAL 1091—Meets 3rd Thursdays, 8 pm MN. Business Agent Scott Weappa, (218) UNITE HERE! LOCAL 99 — Executive in the Duluth Labor Temple, Wellstone Hall. 263-6895, Hibbing. I.B.E.W. Local 294 Unit Board meetings are held on the 2nd Mon. of President Greg Willeck, V.P. Larry Anderson, Bemidji, meets 3rd Thursdays of the month each month: 1:30 p.m. in Mar., June, Oct., & Rec. Sec. Linda Purvis, Bus.Mgr./Fin.Sec./ at 7 p.m. in Carpenters Hall. Dec., 9:30 a.m. in all other months. Quarterly It was a bold, courageous venture for a 26- Treas. Don Watkins 728-5151 INTL. BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL regular membership meetings are held on CARLTON COUNTY CENTRAL LABOR WORKERS, LOCAL 366—(Electrical, Signal the 2nd Mon. of Mar., June, Oct., & Dec. at year old woman, Sabrie Akin, to found the BODY—Meets 1st Monday of month except & Communication Workers of DM&IR) - 2:30 p.m. Meetings are held at the Duluth Sept. which meets last Monday in August. Meets 3rd Thurs. of month at Proctor Labor Temple. 728-6861 Meeting 7:00 pm on 2nd floor of Labor Tem- American Legion. President Allen Johnson; UNITED AUTO WORKERS LOCAL 241 — Labor World Newspaper in 1896. ple, 1403 Ave C, Cloquet 55720; President VP David Winek; Fin. Sec. David Ostby, 303 Meets Ist Tues. of the month, 7:30 p.m., Du- Bob Oswold, VP Tom Beltt, Treas Dan Park Ave. Cloquet, MN 55720, 879-0941; luth Labor Temple, 2002 London Rd., P. Swanson, Sec. Christine Ringat, 879-1939 Rec. Sec. Brian Johnson; Treas. Richard Doug Koski, 1486 Shilhon Rd., Duluth Fin. A tip of the cap to this area’s working men Swenson, Local Chairman Greg Arras, 745 Sec.-Treas. Brian Stuberud, Box 151, Knife Laurel St. Cloquet MN 55720, 879-6129 River, MN 55609 and women that it is still in existence today. UNITED FOOD & COMMERCIAL WORK- ERS LOCAL 1116—Duluth Labor Temple, ~~ 2002 London Rd., Rm. 211, P.O. Box 16388, Duluth 55816-0388. President Steve Gilbert- son; Sec. Treas. Joyce Berglund, 218-728- 5174. Retirees' Club meets 2nd Monday, 1:30 p.m., Duluth Labor Temple, Wellstone Hall Brown, Andrew, UNITED STEELWORKERS 1028 RETIREES ASSOCIATION—Meets 3rd Wed., West Duluth Evergreen Center, 5830 Grand Ave. at 1 p.m. All retirees from USWA & PA 1028 welcome. President Darrill Erickson, Signorelli 1615 Co. Rd. 146, Holyoke, MN 55749, Treas. Mary S. Petrich, Sec. Kay Vigliaturo Tim Andrew ~ Aaron Bransky Representing Labor Unions and their Members 300 Alworth Building Duluth, MN 55802 218-722-1764

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LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 PAGE 7 Carpenters get "drop-dead" deadline to rejoin AFL-CIO Congratulations, Labor World LAS VEGAS (PAI)--AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney gave the Carpenters a "drop-dead deadline," the federation's con- vention in July, to rejoin the federation or be evicted from all fed- on your 109th Anniversary! eration affiliates, including the Building Trades Department. Confirming a reporter's talk with Building Trades President Ed Sullivan, Sweeney said he would "enforce the (AFL-CIO) consti- ZENITH ADMINISTRATORS, INC. tution" then. It requires unions to be wholly in or out. At the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Las Vegas, Sul- livan told Press Associates that, for his unions, getting the Carpen- 7645 Metro Boulevard 750 Torrey Building ters back "has been a subtext of" AFL-CIO revamp talks. Minneapolis, MN 55439 Duluth, MN 55802 When Carpenters President Douglas McCarron withdrew his 952-835-7035 218-727-6668 union several years ago, he said the AFL-CIO needed to reform and put more emphasis on organizing. Sweeney and McCarron have talked of its return, while the union stayed in the department. "What Sweeney has proposed shows he, too, agrees on the need for reform. It's Doug's choice, now," Sullivan said. Carpenters cancel jurisdictional ties with Ironworkers, Sheet Metal In letters to the Ironworkers and Sheet Metal Workers unions, Carpenters President Doug McCarron cancelled jurisdictional agreements on some work that dated back to 1953. "It is our belief that by abrogating these agreements, our union contractors will be more competitive and the members of both our organizations will gain market share," he said in the letter. In the Ironworkers case the covered work included installation of conveyors, rigging, and window and door agreements. The Sheet Metal agreements included suspended metal ceilings with grills, diffusers, and slats for air handling. Dennis Marchetti of Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 said that work is nearly non-existent. "I can't remember the last ceiling like that so it won't affect us around here," he said. "We continue to work together to resolve any problems on the local level and hopefully they'll get things done on the national level as well." Sweeney slate set to run...from page 1 trajectory of the last 10 years--declining union membership, fewer worker protections, and an enhanced political assault on working people at the federal, state and local levels.” Sweeney responded that a changing work environment, includ- ing industry enemies, globalization and outsourcing, and a hostile federal government, demands the labor movement must change, too. And he said the AFL-CIO has already been “through a thoughtful and intensive process of discussing change, and our pro- W E’RE PROUD TO HAVE SUCH A LONG, STRONG posal is evolving and not a final document.” TRADITION OF SUPPORTING A NEWSPAPER THAT As an example, he said the federation increased resources for or- ganizing. “But we’re heavily involved in motivating our affiliates ADVOCATES FOR P EOPLE BEFORE PROFITS! (unions) to increase their resources for organizing, too,” he added. He then pointed out that “We’re committed as much as we can (be) to organizing and politics, too.” The two go together, he stated. Sweeney and his running mates admitted that disaffiliation, as threatened by four of the dissident unions, would, in his words, “make it tougher for the labor movement.” He added that “our hope is that unions that have talked about disaffiliation will be able to discuss their issues with us” and agree not to leave. But if they do go, “We will have to deal with disaffiliation at that time,” he said, without giving details on how. In an interview af- terwards, Trumka similarly said that there has been some thinking on how to deal with the consequences if any union pulls out. “But we go from that point to see what we’re dealing with” as far as the federation’s budget, structure and capabilities are concerned, he ex- “Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and fallen plained. and bruised itself, and risen again; been seized by the throat and choked “Right now, we’re focussing on labor solidarity and doing into insensibility; enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by everything we can to make changes necessary for workers,” he the militia, shot down by regulars, traduced by the Press, frowned upon added. by public opinion, deceived by politicians, threatened by priests, repudiated by renegades, preyed upon by grafters, infested by spies, deserted by cowards, betrayed by traitors, bled by leeches, and sold out Congratulations, Labor by leaders, but, notwithstanding all this, and all these, it is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, World on your 109th! and its historic mission of emancipating the workers of the world from the thralldom of the ages is as certain of ultimate realization as the setting of the sun.” Carlton County ~ Eugene V. 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PAGE 8 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 Iraqi union leaders seek troop withdrawal, solidarity in trip to Minnesota By Barb Kucera, Workday War. In the Twin Cities, their out more forcefully and to de- under the occupation," said Ali ment does not lack the numbers Minnesota editor visit was sponsored by the Unit- mand that these basic rights be Ajawhry. He and Awan said the – it lacks the organizing" and re- ST. PAUL — Two Iraqi ed Steelworkers, several other observed than in Iraq." withdrawal of U.S. troops is the sources, Awan said. "The work- union leaders June 16 issued a unions and other organizations. Even though Saddam Hus- only way to end the violent in- ers must participate in building call for U.S. troops to withdraw "We hosted this event be- sein is no longer in power, the surgency that has resulted in the this society." from Iraq and pledged solidarity cause we believe, as trade United States and the new Iraqi deaths of hundreds of U.S. The crowd at the program with workers in the United unionists, that a fundamental government continue to enforce troops and thousands of Iraqis. passed the hat to raise money States and around the globe. building block for the creation Hussein's laws banning most "We believe when the occu- for the Iraqi unions. Fundraising More than 300 people of a prosperous, safe and free unions. Before the war, Awan pation troops are out, these peo- is taking place at each stop in packed the Carpenters hall for society is the exercise of work- refused to sign a Saddam loyal- ple (insurgents) won't have this the union leaders' two-week discussion with Falah Awan, ers' rights – the right for every- ty pledge and was blacklisted pretext to carry out their acts," journey, organizers said. president of the Federation of one to earn enough money to from his job as an engineer. He Ali Ajawhry said. The creation Foster said the visit by the Workers Councils and Unions put food on the table, a roof over became an underground union of a new government split along Iraqis illustrated the parallels of Iraq (FWCUI), and Amjad their head and clothes on their organizer. religious and ethnic lines, also between the Bush administra- Ali Aljawhry, an Iraqi union back," said Steelworkers Dis- Ali Ajawhry was blacklisted has exacerbated tensions, he tion's anti-labor policies at home leader in exile in Canada and a trict 11 Director Dave Foster. for his political views and union said. and its anti-labor practices representative of the FWCUI in "Nowhere today is the absence organizing among sewing work- The labor movement is part abroad. He called on everyone North America. of labor and human rights being ers and was forced to flee, first of a secular, progressive move- to support worker rights in Iraq The union leaders are part of played out with more chilling to Turkey, then to Canada. ment that is working to rebuild and take part in the discussion a six-member delegation tour- effect than in Iraq. And nowhere Today, union organizing con- Iraq – but it's not getting any about the U.S. role in that coun- ing the United States at the invi- do the obligations of American tinues, but faces serious prob- help from the Bush administra- try. tation of U.S. Labor Against the citizenship require us to speak lems because of government re- tion, the two union leaders said. "We consider ourselves as an pression, ethnic tensions and the The unions have been working international movement," Awan security problems that make to get a labor code included in said. "Any victory we achieve in daily life a very difficult strug- the new Iraqi constitution, but Iraq will be a victory for all the gle, they said. thus far have been shut out of international labor movement." "It is very hard to imagine the process, they said. (For more information visit the kind of life people are living "I believe the secular move- www.uslaboragainstwar.org)

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LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 PAGE 9 Beasley says labor at a fork, not a crossroads UNITE HERE! International position has only about a third just like our pasts and cultures." Vice President Noel Beasley of the votes and hasn't revealed He said the attacks against told delegates to last weekend's their candidate. That has not labor are not new but are un- International Labour Council softened the debate or lessened precedented in their severity. convention in Duluth that the the likelihood that the schism Those attacks demand an offen- debate over the future of the will be a detriment to working sive and progressive counterat- AFL-CIO has been skewed by families in the U.S. tack because now it is not only personalities and rhetoric. While Beasley, who has been active labor that is being attacked. some have characterized the in labor since 1974 and current- Public education is under attack struggle that has been going on ly works out of UNITE HERE's and that has the young in the for months in anticipation of the Joint Board in Chicago, isn't as crosshairs. Social Security is un- federation's convention next worried as many who have ex- der attack and that will make the month in Chicago as "a fight for pounded on the topic. elderly more vulnerable. labor's very existence" or "labor "No matter what happens to He said what bothers him at the crossroads" he sees it the AFL-CIO, progressive allies most about our labor movement more as a fork in the road. will continue to work together," is that we haven't done enough Beasley's union along with Beasley told the 90 delegates. to stop the war in Iraq, which is SEIU, UFCW, and the Team- "We worked with the Teamsters another attack on workers here. sters have created a stir by say- and the United Farm Workers in Beasley said we can't spend UNITE HERE!'s VP Noel Beasley addressed delegates to the ing they may disaffiliate from the past whether they were in time fighting amongst ourselves International Labour Council convention here last weekend. the AFL-CIO if its officers are the AFL-CIO or out. It depends internally but must work for Speaking about the AFL-CIO he said change is inevitable but re-elected. It is pretty much on what their program is and each other to improve every- we need to continue to work to improve people's lives. guaranteed they'll win as the op- what their leadership is." one's lives. The notion of com- Beasley said at a crossroads monwealth has been replaced ThankThanks,s, LaboLaborr WoWorldrld you have four choices and one by government taking care of of them is to go backwards. At a only those with "uncommon- For 109 years of helping us communicate on labor issues. fork in the road you're going to wealth" and that's what we need keep going ahead just not in the to battle he said. same direction. Remember to do it electrically Referring to a labor history with a Union, Trained, presentation the night before by Dr. Richard Hudelson at the ILC Thanks, Licensed Electrician, and use convention, Beasley said there is nothing new about the our Signatory Contractors! changes being debated for labor. Labor "There are no more Knights ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS of Labor and few IWW mem- bers anymore," he said about World Twin Ports Area federations that had been strong Absolute Electric Gilbert Electric Northridge Electric for a time over 100 years ago. for helping (218) 522-0101 (218) 729-7874 (218) 879-1138 "They did good but their times were up. Only change is con- API Electric Inc., Great Lakes Energy Nylund Electric stant. Let's deal with the future us stay on Lakehead/Thompson Div. (218) 349-5218 (218) 624-5706 (218) 628-3323 in the present and make sure our Hill Electric Park Electric programs and solutions are Agate Electric (218) 644-3629 (218) 721-3500 geared to helping people in the top of (218) 834-9226 Johanson Electric Polyphase Electric future." Belknap Electric (218) 879-5736 (218) 723-1413 AFL-CIO President John things! (715) 394-7769 Sweeney in fact created a "New Lake City Electric Red-D Electric Benson Electric (715) 394-3873 (218) 628-1220 Alliance" program to restructure (715) 394-5547 the federation on the local level Laveau Electric Service Electric because he said central labor Bergstrom Electric (218) 384-4001 (715) 392-8771 (715) 392-2427 bodies were still doing things Line Electric Stukel Electric the same way they had since the Drake Electric (218) 644-1115 (218) 348-7909 (218) 525-0200 fed was established 50 years ago Meints Electric TM Automation and too many were ineffective. Electric Constructors (218) 728-6014 (715) 244-3727 Beasley said labor is finally (218) 727-1302 at the point where we know we M.J. Electric Dave Twining Electric Electric Systems of Duluth (218) 878-2099 (218) 721-3833 have to go from playing defense (218) 722-0764 to playing offense in order to MK Electric Yax Electrical achieve our goals. Energy & Air Systems (218) 624-0836 (218) 724-8450 "We have to restructure to (715) 392-9115 fight collectively with our com- Roofers rades in Canada and Mexico," Brainerd Area he said to the audience that was Apex Electric, (218) 927-2739 Electrical Systems of Brainerd, (218) 825-0549 almost half Canadian. "Our Local 96 Hoffman Electric, (218) 829-9533 Holden Electric Company, (218) 829-4759 fates and futures are intertwined McAllister Electric, (218) 568-4707 LIMITED ENERGY CONTRACTS Happy API Technology, (218) 628-3323 Belknap Tel-Com, (715) 394-7769 Anniversary, Electrical Systems of Brainerd, (218) 825-0549 JayEn of Duluth, Inc., (218) 729-9300 Megcom, (218) 723-1413 North Star Cabling, (218) 591-0705 Labor World! Yax Technologies, (218) 724-8573 OTHER CONTRACTS Laurie Johnson Benson Motor Repair, (715) 394-5547 Business Music, Inc., (218) 525-5991 Duluth City Council, District 1 KBJR TV-6, (218) 720-9600 KDLH TV-3, (218) 733-0303 Paid for by Laurie Johnson on her own behalf

PAGE 10 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 Go ahead, bid on a union-made play house You may have heard of Light Faire, A.G. O’Brien, Ace 8 foot by 10 foot houses kept ARTcetera, but you may not Hardware, Contract Tile and their apprentice classes busy. have heard of PLAYcetera. It Carpet, Northern Door and "We went to daytime classes has been a work in progress Hardware, and St. Germain’s. for the first time this year and since January for dozens of The playhouses are incredi- helping with the fundraiser kept members of Duluth Building & ble. They are high quality con- apprentices busy in their 48- Construction Trades Council struction with fixtures and win- hour week," Olafson said. unions. dows you'd be happy to have in Brown said they were plan- ARTcetera is a fundraising your home. They are so nice that ning on making the houses big- event of the Miller-Dwan Foun- buyers have stepped forward to ger but they had to be able to get dation that features an auction say they'd purchase them prior them into the mall for viewing. of donated fine art works and a to the auction. The play houses will be auc- variety of luxury items around a "These playhouses had to be tioned off at ARTcetera, Friday, gourmet dinner. PLAYcetera is extra special to create a buzz in Sept. 23, at the DECC. They a new component that will auc- the community for the fall auc- will be on display at the Miller tion off three custom playhous- tion," said Alander, "and they Hill Mall in September. Absen- es, designed and union-built at are." tee bidding is available for those the Carpenter's Training Center "The most impressive part of who cannot attend the event by in Hermantown. these playhouses is the amazing calling 786-2864. The project is being guided craftsmanship and attention to In the past six years, the Marshall Nelson, a member of Painters & Allied Trades Local by architect John Ivey Thomas, detail that has gone into creating Miller-Dwan Foundation has 106 since 1967, is among dozens of members of Duluth Build- Jerry Alander, Director of Edu- them," said Guthrie Hebenstreit raised a net of over $780,000 ing & Construction Trades Council affiliated unions that have cation for the Lakes & Plains of the Miller Dwan Foundation. through ARTcetera for advance- volunteered since January to build three play houses for the Regional Council of Carpenters, "The miniature scale of the ments in regional healthcare, in- Miller Dwan Foundation's PLAYcetera fundraiser. Craig Olson, President of the playhouses make it necessary cluding cancer treatment and Duluth Building & Construction for the apprentices and volun- physical rehabilitation services. Trades Council, and Jim Brown, teers to use all of their varied Proceeds from this year's We’re all working to improve... Business Manager of IBEW Lo- skills to carefully create quality event will be used to help build No matter what your job cal 242. homes that stand up to close in- a residential hospice house for Supplies have been donated spection." the Duluth community. This is, it ultimately makes by many businesses including Keith Olafson, an appren- hospice is a much-needed addi- someone’s life better. Hermantown Lumber, An- ticeship instructor for Carpen- tion to hospice services avail- The Labor World dren’s, Johnson Carpet and Tile, ter's Local 361, said building the able in the region. It will pro- works to improve vide affordable housing and warm, nurturing end-of-life care everyone’s work life for patients and their families. and we can all use "That's something that our a little help there. Building Trades unions actually got into over 20 years ago," said Happy Olson. "Our union members have gone out of their way to anniversary, help this fundraiser because it's something they really believe Labor world in." Olson was among a number of members from Painters 106 that put in over 300 hours on the Peg Sweeney playhouses. St. Louis County Commissioner F District 5 The Duluth Building Trades unions in the early 1980s had Paid for by Peg Sweeney Volunteer Committee created the Shoreview House of Hope to fill a similar housing need for visiting family mem- HappyHappy Anniversary,Anniversary, bers and cancer victims coming to Duluth for treatment. When LaborLabor World!World! that enterprise was replaced by We're proud to provide stable, high quality third IBEW Local 242's Joe Kneisel installs a chandelier in one of other options, the DBCTC sold three play houses to auctioned off this fall. Some of his union the house and created a scholar- party administration services for Taft-Hartley brothers wired the units that Joe thought would make excel- ship for children of their mem- negotiated benefit funds. Wilson-McShane bers. (See story next page) lent fish houses. employs over 150 professional and experienced staff members committed to successful, ongoing, Congratulations stable relationships both internally and externally. Have a Safe & Happy Fourth of July! The Labor World Anniversary Edition

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LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 PAGE 11 Beaufeaux, Kuberra are Trades scholars Duluth Building & Construc- Minnesota, Twin Cities and earn a rience and a 100-word essay de- tion Trades Council Scholarships nursing degree. scribing what being in a union Happy 109th Anniversary, for 2005 have been awarded to The one-time $2,500 scholar- family has meant to the student. Jillian Beaufeaux and Margaret ships have been awarded by the The scholarships are adminis- Labor World! Kuberra. Duluth Building Trades Council tered by the Duluth Superior Area Beaufeaux is the daughter of since 1999. The fund was estab- Community Foundation. They Jeff Beaufeaux, a member of lished from the sale of Shoreview process applications and select Robert B. Reich Ironworkers Local 512. Jillian House of Hope, a non-profit tem- the winners. High school guid- Says Liberals graduated from Cloquet High porary housing facility that the ance counselors have applica- School with a GPA of 3.8. She unions had created in Duluth for tions, which have a March 1 Will Win will attend the University of St. cancer patients and their families. deadline said Brenda Sproat of The Battle Thomas to study pharmacy. The scholarships are awarded DSACF. She can be reached at Kuberra is the daughter of to the children of any of the 17 726-0232 or bsproat@dsacom- for America. Michael Kuberra, a member of unions affiliated with the council. munityfoundation.com. Carpenters Local 361. Margaret Students must be planning ca- Craig Olson, DBCTC presi- Our Values and graduated from Duluth East High reers in the medical field. Compe- dent, said his organization is School with a 3.95 GPA. She tition is based upon grade point proud to be able to help students Philosophy Are plans to attend the University of averages, overall scholastic expe- with their education. “We want to be sure that Needed Now More everyone that is eligible com- Than Ever To Make pletes the application process,” Olson said. He said DSACF con- Reich’s Prediction trols all aspects of the fund to en- a Reality. sure that it is a fair process for all. DBCTC affiliated unions are: Boilermakers 647, Bricklayers 1, Senator Becky Lourey Carpenters 361, Cement Masons 633, Elevator Constructors 9, AFL-CIO & DFL Endorsed District 8 IBEW 242, Iron Workers 512, La- Paid for by Lourey for Senate, Rosanne Haynes, Treasurer, Holyoke, MN borers 1091, Millwrights 1348, Operating Engineers 49, Painters 106, Plumbers/Fitters 11, Roofers Happy 109th Labor World! 96, Sheet Metal Workers 10, Sprinkler Fitters 669 and Team- Here’s fine dining and lodging that supports sters 346. your union sisters and brothers of Beaufeaux Kuberra UNITE HERE! Local 99 Unions have improved the work lives of all Americans. Hotels and Inns Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Radisson Duluth Congratulations, Labor World, on 109 years of 200 W 1st St, Duluth, MN 505 W Superior St, Duluth, MN 722-1202 727-8981 being the voice for our unions and members. 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Thanks, Labor World for 109 Years of Service! From Lutsen to International Falls to Park Rapids to Little Falls to Kettle River to the Twin Ports -- Our 920 active and 325 retired members from 20 bargaining units would like to say how proud we are of being able to help carry on such a fine tradition as the one the Labor World Newspaper has established in northwest Wisconsin and northern Minnesota. Our History ~~ Our Heritage ~~ Our Voice IBEWIBEW LLOCOCALAL 3131 Representing Workers At: Arrowhead Electric Cooperative Itasca Mantrap Cooperative Electric Assn. Lutsen, MN Park Rapids, MN Bayfield Electric Co-op Lake Country Power Iron River, Wl Grand Rapids, Kettle River & Virginia City of Brainerd - Administrative Support Mille Lacs Electric Cooperative Brainerd, MN Aitkin, MN City of Brainerd - Fire Department Minnesota Power Brainerd, MN Duluth, MN City of Brainerd - Water & Light Dept. Aquila Inc. Brainerd, MN Cloquet, MN City of Moose - Lake Water & Light Public Utility Commission of Aitkin Moose Lake, MN Aitkin, MN City of Staples - Water & Light Commission Public Utility Commission of Proctor Staples, MN Proctor, MN City of Two Harbors - Water & Light Dept. Cooperative Light & Power Assn. of Lake County Superior Water, Light & Power Two Harbors, MN Two Harbors, MN Superior, WI City of Wadena - Electric Water Dept. Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Todd-Wadena Electric Co-op Wadena, MN Brainerd, MN Wadena, MN

LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 PAGE 13 Corporate criminals could convene convention The Labor World... Press Associates, Inc.'s vestors about the firm’s fi- + Maytag’s plant closing in Washington Window nances. Galesburg, Ill., at a time of high 109 Years of Work Consider the latest lineup of • Bernard Ebbers, former profits, to move to Mexico. for our Labor Movement! corporate criminals: CEO of WorldCom, convicted There’s no punishment; NAFTA • Dennis Kozlowski, former on nine criminal counts and legalized the move. But what Tyco CEO convicted of grand awaiting sentencing. Maytag did to 1,600 loyal work- Bricklayers larceny, conspiracy, securities • Martin L. Grass, former ers there is a crime, too. (Now, and Allied fraud and falsifying business CEO of the RiteAid drugstore China’s bidding to buy Maytag.) records. Faces up to 30 years in chain, doing eight years in the + And, yes, we think of Craftworkers jail. Mark Swartz, former Tyco penitentiary for conspiracy. NAFTA and CAFTA and how chief financial officer, convicted • Martha Stewart, five corporate chieftains have used Local Union #1 of many of the same crimes as months in jail for insider trad- and will use those so-called Kozlowski and facing the same ing. “free trade” treaties to export of Minnesota potential jail term. • Richard Schrushy--once tens of thousands of our jobs • John J. Rigas, founder and head of a big rehab center chain- and downgrade--through the & North Dakota ex-CEO of Adelphia Cable, sen- -charged on 36 counts of $2.7 threat of moving away--thou- 2002 London Road tenced to 15 years in jail for si- billion worth of fraud, conspira- sands more, ruining lives. 724-8374 phoning millions of dollars from cy, false reporting and money All this corporate criminali- the firm for his own use, cook- laundering. ty, combined with bribery, the ing the books to hide $2.3 bil- • The Enron gang, headed by “race to the bottom,” the influ- lion in debt, and lying to in- George W. Bush’s pal, Ken Lay, ence-peddling by 34,750 corpo- facing trials. rate lobbyists in Washington, Their misdeeds, lies, fraud and more, shows us there is and theft rob companies of prof- something very basically wrong its and workers of their jobs and with the so-called “market” cap- pensions. But these crooks, as italist system. visible as they are, are only the Frankly, it’s time for the la- tip of the iceberg of corporate bor movement to question not criminality. So it’s time to ask: just specific corporate criminal “Is it them...or a rotten system?” acts, as widespread as they are, Because when you look but the system and culture pro- more closely at the corporate ducing them. We are not here Happy 109th Anniversary, capitalist world, its many forms to speculate on what should re- Happy 109th Anniversary, of unpunished criminality are place the system, yet, but we even more striking than the urge the discussion of the crimi- crimes above: nality of the system to start. Be- LaborLabor WWorld!orld! + $100 million in no-bid cause for too long, it’s been contracts awarded to Hallibur- quashed: Foes of the present set- ton--Vice President Cheney’s up are labeled “socialist”, “com- old shop--for reconstruction in munist” or worse. Iraq. All perfectly legal, the But corporate criminality is feds say. too rampant and it hurts too + Rampant labor law- many people to be random. It is breaking undertaken by Verizon intrinsic in corporate culture. Wireless, Wal-Mart and others. So it’s time to challenge the ba- Punishments? NLRB don’t-do- sic theses underlying the capi- it-again wrist slaps, and no puni- talist corporate structure, then tive fines. consider how to replace them.

Furthering Our Cause Since 1896 Keep up the good work!

from the Members & Officers of IRON WORKERS LOCAL 512

PAGE 14 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 Happy 109th Anniversary, Labor World! Twin Ports-Arrowhead Chapter of the NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION Johanson Electric APi Electric Benson Electric Cloquet, MN Hibbing, MN Virginia MN Kantor Electric APi Electric Bergstrom Electric International Falls, MN Duluth, MN Superior, WI Laveau Electric APi Technologies DECO, Inc Wrenshall, MN Duluth, MN Baxter, MN M. J. Electric AEC Electric Electric Systems Iron Mountain, MI International Falls, MN Duluth, MN North Country Agate Electric Electrical Systems Electrical Services Two Harbors, MN Brainerd, MN Laporte, MN Sheet Metal Workers Local 10 held an awards banquet in April with International Representative John Beaulieu (bot- Belknap Electric Energy & Air Systems Nylund Electric tom left) and Business Manager Craig Sandberg (top right) Superior, WI Superior, WI Duluth, MN awarding Dick Barlage (top center) a 40-year service pin. Belknap Tel-Com Hoffmann Electric Polyphase Electric Robert Curtis Jr. (top left), Scott Gronseth (bottom center) and Superior, WI Brainerd, MN Duluth, MN Business Rep. Dennis J. Marchetti (bottom right) got 25-year pins. Also receiving pins from this area were Lyle Alms, Greg Benson Electric Holden Electric Seppala Electric Merritt, Fred Duensing, Robert Pufall, Wayne Nyberg, Melvin Superior, WI Baxter, MN Hibbing, MN Thompson, Albert Bosley, Clinton Christenson, Mark A. Johnson, Walter Mester Sr. and Ernest Mattson. Court upholds reporting rules WASHINGTON (PAI)--By a 3-0 vote, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia backed GOP Labor Secre- tary Elaine Chao in the AFL-CIO’s suit against her over new union Congratulations financial reporting rules. The rules, which the federation calculates will cost unions, fed- erations and CLCs from $700 million-$1.1 billion, require any union with at least $200,000 in receipts to itemize all spending over $5,000, employee work time, and other details covering everything from payroll to paper clips. The Radical Right National Right to Work Committee Legal Defense Foundation filed a “friend-of-the- LABOR WORLD court” brief backing Chao. The federation said Chao interpreted the GOP-passed Landrum- Griffin Act’s reporting requirements too tightly and that union re- ports should be like those of corporations and non-profits. The judges disagreed in their May 31 ruling. on 108109 years of “Responding to arguments she lacked authority to require item- ization, the secretary stated the financial reporting require- ments...only set minimum standards because she may require unions ‘to report every receipt and disbursement in any amount.’ educating But, as the quotation from the preamble indicates, the secretary rec- ognizes the limitation on her authority to require greater detail on- ly as ‘necessary accurately to disclose a union’s financial condition and operations,’” they wrote. The new rules and forms do so, they agitating said.

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LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 PAGE 15 Here's why we like Floyd B. Olson and the Farmer Labor Party By Dave Riehle Populists, Socialists, Wobblies, The virulently anti-union and present, the imprint of this What’s in a name? A mean- Non-Partisan Leaguers and co- Minneapolis Citizen’s Alliance unique people’s movement and spirited proposal floated last fall operative movements—the rank set the tone for all future critics its most popular and charismatic to erase Farmer-Labor party and file responded with a storm of Farmer Laborism, which did leader is indelible. Its broad and Governor Floyd B. Olson’s of enthusiasm when Olson pro- not yet include the 28-year old ambitious goals of social justice name from State Highway 55 claimed in 1934: “ I am not a Olson, at that point an appren- remain incomplete, and today, got its 15 minutes of media at- liberal. I am what I want to be— tice lawyer and a Democrat. under attack with a ferocity un- tention and then faded away. I am a radical.” “Reds Control 37th Annual matched since its inception. Nominating Californian Ronald Immensely popular in his Convention of State Federation For those of us in organized Reagan as a suitable replace- day, Olson was elected Gover- of Labor—Political Machine labor, its memory is still green. ment did not set well with most nor three times and died of can- Formed,” trumpeted the Citi- Floyd B. Olson’s name will al- Minnesotans regardless of polit- cer at the age of 44 while run- zen’s Alliance Bulletin of Au- ways be writ large on our ban- ical orientation. ning for certain victory as a can- gust 1919. ner along with his message: With the month of May des- didate for U.S. Senate in 1936. What’s in a name, or a label? “The rights that labor has won, ignated as Labor History Not only did he have the support Olson always said, after he had labor must fight to protect.” Month, it’s a good time for Min- of organized labor and working been converted to Farmer-La- (Riehle is a labor historian farmers, he represented an inde- borism, that he would rather be This Floyd B. Olson portrait nesotans to remember what and Local Chair of United hangs in the Minneapolis La- Floyd B. Olson –and the work- pendent third political party in called “red” than “yellow.” Transportation Union Lodge this state which had been delib- The labor “Reds” in 1919 in- bor Center. The newspaper on ing people’s movement he head- 650 in Minneapolis.) his desk is the Minneapolis ed--contributed to our state. erately crafted in response to the cluded William Mahoney, Presi- failure of the two old parties to dent of the St. Paul Trades and Labor Review. (Barb Kucera Olson, who grew up in a di- www.workdayminnesota.org) verse North Minneapolis work- stand by these constituencies in Labor Assembly and future troubled times. Mayor of St. Paul, former Min- ing-class neighborhood, was a Monday - Friday tri-lingual agitator and orator, The political movement that neapolis Mayor Tom Van Lear speaking in English, Norwegian created the Farmer Labor party from the Machinists Union and 9 am - 5:30 pm and Yiddish. Olson’s intelli- crystallized at a convention of attorney Arthur LeSueur, who gence, boldness, working class the Minnesota State Federation had served as Mayor of Minot, roots, even his good looks and of Labor in 1919, where the del- North Dakota. Their offenses, impressive stature, focused the egates from organized labor met according to the Citizen’s Al- 2002 London Road • 218.728.2863 in convention to form the Work- liance, included calling for Farmer Labor party through the F Doctor On Site prism of his personality and ing People’s Non-Partisan “recognition of unions to be en- convictions. Shaped by decades League. Merger with progres- forced by law,” a 44-hour week, F Convenient Parking of agitation in the Midwest by sive farmers came soon after. freedom of the press and assem- F bly, social insurance (i.e. Social Located in the Duluth Labor Temple Security) and public ownership F European Style Glasses With our Best Wishes of some major industries. F In 1934 Olson and the FLP Contact Lenses on our Labor World’s advocated government takeover Owners of Minnesota electric utilities, Kim Bujold & Eric Saksa, O.D. packing plants, grain elevators 109th Anniversary! and iron mines. Perhaps some of the antipa- thy expressed by current Olson- bashers—like those in the so- called Taxpayers League--can be better understood in light of a report by Minnesota Represen- tative Ernest Lundeen to Con- gress in 1936 that among the ac- complishments of the FLP was “more equitable enforcement of tax laws, which is cleaning up a condition of mass tax dodging A Special “Thank You” to all the volunteers who by wealthy groups.” While demanding increased helped us with another successful Food Drive! revenues from business and the wealthy, the FLP state platform National Association of Letter Carriers proposed the elimination of all property taxes on urban and rur- NALC Zenith Branch 114 Merged al homesteads and opposed a Duluth, Two Harbors and Silver Bay sales tax as regressive. Despite its naysayers past Congratulations on 109 years of doing a great job INTERSTATE SPUR for the working people of Northern Minnesota Sen. David TOMASSONI

Rep. Tom RUKAVINA 2700 W. Michigan St. GAS - DIESEL Rep. Tony SERTICH GROCERIES Paid for by the Rukavina Campaign Committee, 6930 Hwy 169, Virginia, MN 55792; the Citizens for Anthony “Tony” Sertich; Rick Puhek, Chair, 1210 NW 9th Avenue, Chisholm, MN 55710 OPEN 24 HOURS and the Tomassoni Campaign; P.O. Box 29, Chisholm, MN 55719 PAGE 16 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 NALC Food Drive sets record WASHINGTON (PAI)--The Letter Carriers’ food drive for the needy set a record in 2005, with 71.3 million pounds collected at post offices and by carriers nationwide, NALC President William 109 Young and Drive Coordinator Drew Von Bergen said. The food, distributed to food banks and soup kitchens, is aug- mented by 10 million cans of Campbell’s Soup through the year for hunger charities, Young said. “Without this unselfish display of caring by NALC members and all of these volunteers, our food drive could not continue to be such a success,” Young said. “The NALC Food Drive has become an icon in the anti-hunger effort in America and we are proud to be able to help our communities provide for the millions of families in need.” Top performers among post offices and NALC members, by size of workforce, were: Branch 5480 of Venice, Fla., with fewer than 100 carriers, collected 123,000 pounds of food; Snohomish County, Wash., Branch 791, with 100-499 members and 390,069 pounds; Tucson Branch 704 (500-999 members) 1.205 million pounds; and Branch 6000 on Long Island (more than 1,000 mem- bers) with 1.5 million pounds. In this region's 12th annual drive numbers were down about one third across the board for Duluth, Cloquet, Superior, Hermantown, Two Harbors, Proctor and Silver Bay. Still, 132,243 pounds of food were collected in one day, which was the fishing opener here. That number compared to 189,228 in 2004.

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LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 PAGE 17 labor conditions in the 4 coun- on workers’ rights. They add CAFTA vote getting close in Congress...from page 1 tries in December, but the Bush trade benefits for the four coun- to insert labor rights protec- Nicaragua and the Dominican can-U.S. relations and condi- administration has sat on it. tries must be reviewed, and tions into the bill lost on a 10-10 Republic. tions in the six nations, says that They said again in the new withdrawn if necessary. GSP is tie vote in committee. Communications Workers CAFTA will strip Latin Ameri- case that Costa Rica, El Sal- the present trade system cover- In the face of administration President Morton Bahr wrote can workers of what little job vador, Guatemala and Honduras ing U.S. relations with the six and business pressure, the feder- lawmakers in mid-June that protections they have under pre- fail to meet the General System CAFTA nations. ation re-filed the labor rights vi- CAFTA is “a dangerous erosion sent trade rules. Those protec- of Preferences (GSP) conditions olation case on June 15. It pro- of states’ rights,” given that cor- tions include investigations vided evidence of lack of en- porations could use CAFTA-- when a complaint is filed about AFSCME Council 5 Area forcement of present trade rules like NAFTA--to challenge state a nation’s potential breaking of Director Mary Theurer in four of the six CAFTA coun- labor and environmental laws. labor laws, and trade sanctions told delegates to the ILC tries: Guatemala, Honduras, El The AFL-CIO, aided by hu- if it’s guilty. convention in Duluth last Salvador and Costa Rica. The man rights groups and groups The federation and its allies weekend that CAFTA will other two CAFTA countries are concerned about Latin Ameri- filed just such a complaint about be devastating to Min- nesota's agricultural econ- omy. About 2,500 union Happy 109th Anniversary... jobs in the state depend on the $2 billion sugar beet industry. The iron mining to the voice for working men and women in industry, in comparison is a $1 billion industry per year. Minnesota's corn industry could northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin face a $1.5 billion loss per year as the need for fructose drops Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 10 as crops and products are dumped in the U.S. Duluth-Superior Iron Range Bemidji Join us for Personal Service… Join us for a Lending Hand… Join us Because You Can !

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AFSCME® Minnesota Council 5 Eliot Seide, Executive Director Eric Lehto, Organizing Director Marsh Stenersen, Sarah Lewerenz, Ken Loeffler-Kemp, Laurie Johnson, Union Representatives IMPORTANT NOTICE TO UNORGANIZED, NON-PROFIT EMPLOYEES AFSCME nationally represents over 100,000 non-profit employees in social service, health care and service-related agencies. These non-profit agencies often are funded with substantial public financing by either federal, state or local funding sources. We have extensive knowledge and a working relationship with these funding sources. Our Union has organized employees at the Duluth Women’s Coalition, the Benedictine Health Center, the St. Scholastica Priory, Northland Extended Care (St. Luke’s Hospital Home Care), the Viewcrest Nursing Home, Duluth YWCA, Neighborhood Housing Services, Duluth City & County Employees Credit Union, the Franciscan Health Care Center, the United Way of Greater Duluth and the Human Development Center. We have settled contracts at all of these worksites. We feel confident we can provide active, democratic, member-directed representation for all non-profit employees in our area. If you, a family member or a friend are an employee of an unorganized (not unionized) non-profit agency in the Duluth area, we suggest you give us a call about our union. We think we could be of assistance to you. All inquiries are strictly confidential. You can reach us by calling (218)722-0577

PAGE 18 LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 United Ways' goal is to deliver these beds to those in need in their communities. If you are in need or you know of someone who is in need of a bed, please contact 2-1-1 or 726-4770 to be referred to a local agency that will determine your eligibility AFL-CIO Community Services and United Way Partnership and issue a voucher if you qual- ify. Liaison Program by Yvonne Harvey Individuals must provide comfort and choice in our indus- their own transportation when Free beds for try and will help our hotels in- picking up a bed. Distribution the needy crease guest satisfaction and ob- site in Duluth is: Damiano Cen- tain a leadership position in the ter, 206 West 4th Street, 1st and Do you need a bed and can’t marketplace," said Bjørn Gul- 3rd Thursday of the month, afford one? If you meet eligibil- laksen, executive vice president 1:30-4:00 p.m. ity requirements, you can get a of Carlson Hotels Worldwide In Cloquet, pick up is at Up free bed. Starting in December Full Service Hotels and Brand North Mini Storage, 1202 29th 2004 a new partnership between Leader for Radisson Hotels & Street, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of Radisson Hotels & Resorts, Resorts. "We also wanted to each month between 2:00-3:00 United Ways and other non provide an option for our hotels pm. profit agencies across the coun- to put their existing beds to fur- The first bed distribution in ty was formed. These entities ther good use and help those in Duluth was on June 10 and ac- have created a public-private need, rather than just liquidating cording to Paula Reed, Presi- coalition to find charitable the beds or having them end up dent of UWGD, it was a tremen- homes for the thousands of beds in a landfill. Through our part- dous success. “People were the hotel chain will be replacing nership with United Way...and waiting in line when we opened over the next two years. Radis- their numerous affiliated non- the doors and the beds went son is exchanging its existing profit agencies, our hotel own- faster than we ever could have king, queen and double-sized ers in the United States and imagined,” she said. beds for the Sleep Number® Other organizations assist- TM Canada can donate their existing beds by Select Comfort at beds to charity and help their ing in the project include: Onei- 249 Radisson hotels and resorts greater community." da Realty, Minnesota Power, in the United States, Canada and In the Duluth area, United Stor-Mor Storage, the Damiano the Caribbean, with the majority Way of Greater Duluth Center, and many local nonprof- of Radisson's 90,000 beds to be (UWGD), United Way of Clo- it service agencies. upgraded in 2005 and 2006. quet and United Way of Dou- For more about United Way, "Our exclusive agreement glas County have partnered with its agencies and programs call with Select Comfort will bring the Radisson Hotel in Duluth to Yvonne Harvey at 728-1779 hotel bedding to a new level of find homes for 300 beds. The

This Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body team stained a fire escape for the Human Development Center during the United Way of Greater Duluth's Day of Caring June 22. The effort helps non-profit United Way agencies complete projects that they are unable to get done themselves. Paul Hanson, Lori Doucette, Alan Netland, Todd Erickson, and Yvonne Harvey have volunteered for a number of years. They were joined by Laura Laaksonen of UNITE HERE Local 99 this year. Please Support Labor World Advertisers Thank You, Labor World [ work injury ] for being there for workers... Since 1896! It happens in an instant. One minute you’re working—earning a wage. Next minute you’re standing around wondering what to do next. Statistics show that in Minnesota more than 150,000 workers are injured on the job each year. And that’s only the ones we hear about. If you’re injured on the job you need proven AFSCME statistics working for you. We have over 40 130 W. Superior St. Duluth, MN 55802 years of trial experience and a team approach Local 3801 218-727-5384 to personal injury cases. Fact is, OUR SUCCESS 800-535-1665 UMD Clerical & IS NO ACCIDENT. cuzzo.com Technical Employees

LABOR WORLD NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2005 PAGE 19 NLRB rules against Spot Bar, Bill Fisher Tell The Spot's Bill Fisher to sign a fair The National Labor Rela- the number of days until there through Friday from 6:00 p.m. tions Board's regional office has could be a decertification of the to 8:00 p.m. If there is anything contract with UNITE HERE Local 99: done something you don't often union by his employees. you can do to help call Erickson Phone: (218) 288-2440 hear. It has sided with UNITE "He just doesn't get it, I at (218) 728-6861. HERE Local 99 on all 19 unfair guess," said Todd Erickson, "We'd love to resolve this Address: Bill Fisher labor practice (ULP) charges Secretary-Treasurer of Local 99. dispute for our members so we Spot Restaurant the union filed against Bill Fish- "He still seems to think he can could tell everyone to eat at The er and his Spot Supper Club in do whatever he wants in spite of Spot when they're in the Falls," Hwy 53 & 18th St. International Falls. labor law and the NLRB's find- said Erickson. International Falls, MN 56649 Something you do often hear ings." about is Fisher's reaction. He The number in the corner of apparently could care less. the marquee seems to show that On June 7 the Spot signed a Fisher intends to ignore the settlement agreement saying "bargain in good faith" agree- they would restore the status ment. He will probably go into a quo that existed at the restaurant protracted stall until he can or- prior to Jan. 3, 2005. That's chestrate a union decert vote. about the time when Fisher That won't be done by Chris An- bought the establishment, which derson, who is a cook at The had been a union house since Spot. 1939. Under terms of the NLRB When Anderson was sup- settlement, the Spot agrees to posed to get paid, his paycheck bargain in good faith with was withheld. He went out on UNITE HERE 99. the picket line in protest. Before In addition, Heather Caple, long a manager came out to the who had been fired for wearing picket line with his check and a a union button while working, letter he was to sign saying he has been awarded $2200 in back resigned his position. He was to pay, is supposed to get her job get his check after signing. He back, and will be allowed to didn't. wear her button while working. Informational picket lines "I haven't gotten my back will continue six days a week pay or been called back to until Fisher signs a contract work," she said Tuesday. "He's with the union. (Fisher) seems to be playing his "We need help getting a fair fun little games because he fig- contract," said Erickson. "We're ures he'll get rid of us." a small group but we need to Everything looks good on keep the pressure on Fisher, es- paper in the 19 counts the NL- pecially after the NLRB rul- RB wrote up in the notice that ings." Erickson said he hopes Fisher is supposed to post at the other unions, groups and indi- restaurant. But Fisher is hardly viduals would "Adopt a Day on showing good faith. the Picket Line" to help those Insurance companies and big business claim we are caught in a lawsuit He almost immediately who have been maintaining it changed the signage on his mar- nearly non-stop. gridlock - that our courts are clogged with ”frivolous lawsuits,” which quee to show a countdown in Pickets are held Monday drive up insurance premiums. But that’s not true - look at the numbers! They are spreading these myths to limit your right, regardless of income, Please Support Labor World Advertisers to fair compensation if you are injured due to another’s fault. ATTACK ALERT: Your constitutional rights are under attack right now in the Minnesota and United States Legislatures. “Tort Reformers” want to limit compensatory damages for victims of accidents and medical malpractice. But in states where such “caps” are in place, there is no evidence that caps reduce insurance premiums! The truth is numbers don’t lie. Our fair legal system is working fine for all of us. We’re fighting for your constitutional rights, and we need your help! Congratulations, Call your legislators today! Labor World! And to our brothers and sisters... Falsani, Balmer, Have a safe and enjoyable summer! Peterson, Quinn & Beyer We’re proud to be a union contractor ATTORNEYS AT LAW LAKEHEAD Painting Co. NO RECOVERY 1200 Alworth Building “Serving the upper midwest since 1965” 723-1990 (306 W. Superior St.) Duluth Free Estimates Superior, Wisconsin (715) 394-5799 NO FEE

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