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Volume 109 Number 23 December 5, 2008 Portland Buy union this holiday season — and keep it local

The economy may be holding its breath, but that won’t stop most Labor Press readers from doing at least some gift shopping this year. And buying union-made and union-delivered is a way for working peo - ple to stick together. To help readers who want to do that, the Labor Press has come up with 10 gift ideas for goods and services made or sold by local union workers. CONCERT TICKETS. Tickets to the Oregon Symphony make a classy gift — and they keep members of American Fed - eration of Musicians Local 99 employed. The Portland Opera and Oregon Ballet Theater also employ AFM mem - bers, but OBT now uses recorded music for over half its shows, such as the Nutcracker Suite. Ask before you buy. HUNTING GEAR. For the hunter or fisher in the family, what about a knife made by Gerber Legendary Blades? Based in Southwest Portland, Gerber employs members of Machin - ists District Lodge 24, Legendary Local 2911. CELL PHONE SERVICE. As any kid will tell you, if you give them a cell phone for Christmas, they’ll love you forever. But be sure to go with unionized AT&T, not any of Oregon AFL-CIO President Tom Chamberlain fires up rally-goers protesting the use of nonunion contractors on the the other carriers, which are nonunion (and rather anti- initial phase of a $250 million Oregon State Hospital makeover in Salem. The contractors are performing demolition union). In Oregon, when you visit a company-owned AT&T and asbestos removal. According to the Laborers Union, which sponsored the rally, the employer doesn’t pay area store, you’re talking with a member of Communications Work - standard wages and benefits. ers of America (CWA) Local 7901. BOOKS. Books make great gifts, and you can buy them, or a gift card, at Powell’s Books, the only unionized book State hospital job off to a bad start seller in the area. Workers there are represented by Interna - tional Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 5. SALEM —The long overdue re - tion and Demolition of Sandy, Oregon. recommend solutions. That inquiry placement of the dilapidated Oregon Jim Anderson of Operating Engi - found many buildings on the campus CHEAP WHEELS. Got a teenager? Give the gift of mobil - State Hospital has gotten off on the neers Local 701 told the NW Labor located at Center Street NE in central ity. A one-month TriMet Youth pass costs $26, and might wrong foot for some construction Press that several signatory contractors Salem were badly outdated. cut down on the need for chauffeuring. And TriMet employs unions. bid the work. In September, ground was broken members of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 757. Laborers Local 320 held an infor - Not all of the construction contracts on a new, 620-bed facility, part of a mational rally Nov. 20 to protest the have been awarded, “but when the first $458 million “revitalization and mod - BOOTS. For serious boot-lovers, Danner hiking, fishing and presence of nonunion contractors per - big piece ($16 million for demolition ernization” plan that will include a hunting boots are the real deal, and some of them are made forming demolition and asbestos abate - and asbestos abatement) goes rat, second, 36-bed state hospital in Junc - in Portland by members of UFCW Local 555. Check the ment work on the first phase of the that’s bad news,” said Ben Nelson, an tion City — near the location of a new label to see if it’s U.S.-made. And get them at Danner’s Port - $250 million prevailing wage project. organizer for the Laborers Union. state prison. The new hospital is land outlet store, 12722 NE Airport Way, or at Al’s Shoe’s and The general contractor is Hoffman Anderson hopes that a union con - scheduled for completion in 2011. Boots — a long-time supporter of the Labor Press — at 5811 NE Construction. tractor will get the excavation and site Speaking at the Laborers rally were 82nd Ave. According to the Laborers Union, work. Tom Chamberlain, president of the CANDY. Fill up your stockings with union-made candy. IRS Environmental, which has a pri - The 125-year-old psychiatric hospi - Oregon AFL-CIO; Jerry Fletcher, See’s “Famous Old Time Candies” is hand-packaged by mem - marily Hispanic workforce doing as - tal is one of the oldest on the West president of the International Brother - bers of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain bestos removal, does not provide ade - Coast. Originally known as the Ore - hood of Tangent Electrical Workers Millers International Union. Russell Stover Candies, Jelly quate health insurance and isn’t a gon Insane Asylum, it was renamed in Local 280; and Bruce Roller of Labor - Belly jelly beans, Hershey’s Kisses, Fifth Avenue, Zagnut, recognized training agent for appren - 1907. The hospital may be best known ers Local 320. More than five dozen York Peppermint Patties, Nestles Crunch, Kit Kat bars, tices. In fact, during the rally Nov. 20, for being featured in the movie “One members from other unions partici - Baby Ruth, Butterfingers and Thin Mints are all made Laborers organizer Bill Hoffman Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” star - pated, including the American Federa - by members of the Bakers Union. asked an IRS Environmental employee ring Jack Nicholson. tion of State, County and Municipal about his health care plan. The man re - In 2003, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulon - Employees and the Service Employees BLANKETS. When you turn down the thermo- sponded that he didn’t have insurance. goski established a 21-member mental International Union, . AFSCME Lo - Demolition work is being per - health task force to identify problems cals 3295 and 3327 represent nurses (Turn to Page 2) formed by nonunion Konell Construc - in the mental health care system and and doctors at Oregon State Hospital. DEC. 5, 2008 8pger:NWLP 12/2/08 10:21 AM Page 2

Agency revives ‘Helping Hands’ program After suspending its “Helping nity Service Agency announced that it In October, LCSA distributed more Hands” emergency assistance pro - will again be taking referrals starting than $8,000 in rent and housing assis - gram in November, Labor’s Commu - Dec. 8. tance, utilities, food, clothing, and es - sential needs on behalf of dozens of Helping Hands applicants. The volume was much more than the agency could handle, said Execu - Quest tive Director Glenn Shuck. The program was temporarily sus - Investment pended until more resources became Q available. Management, Inc. Labor’s Community Service Agency can be reached at 503 231- 4962. } S•eSrevrivninggMMuullttii--EEmmpployeer r Shuck reminds union members that Trusts for Over Twenty Years people in need can also contact Trusts for Twenty Years United Way’s “2-1-1 Guide Line” in - formation and referral hotline. To ac - CCam Joohhnnssoonn GGreg Sherwwoooodd cess the hotline, simply dial 2-1-1. PHC gets energized by the sun AAddriannHHaammilitlotonn MMonte Joohhnnssoonn Guide Line serves as an informational Jim Loftus of Dynalectric (in back) helps Portland Habilitation Center DDoouug GGoebel BBiillllZZennk clearinghouse for all social services in Northwest Director John Murphy install the last of 4,830 photovoltaic panels the region. on the roof of PHC’s new $8 million manufacturing facility in Northeast Garth Nisbet Pat Worley Portland. The solar array covers 72,000 square feet and can generate 858- kilowatts of electricity a year — more than enough to power PHC’s in-house OOnnee SSWW CCoolluummbbiiaa St., Suite 1100,PPoorrttllaanndd,, OR 97258 ‘Holiday Party’ manufacturing, assembly, courier, and warehousing services. PHC trains and 550033--222211--00115588 Dec. 6 in Salem employs individuals with disabilities. Workers are members of Service Employees Local 49 and Laborers Local 483. Any excess energy generated wwwwww..QuestIInveessttmmeennt.tc.coomm SALEM —The 68th annual “Holi - from the solar system will be delivered to Portland General Electric’s grid day Party for Children” will be held at and the non-profit PHC will be credited for unused energy under Oregon’s 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Elsi - net-metering law. The solar installation will eventually save PHC an nore Theatre, 170 High St. SE, Salem. estimated $75,000 in annual energy costs and reduce its greenhouse gas The free event, sponsored by the emissions by approximately 18,000 tons over the life of the system. “This Bennett Hartman Marion, Polk, Yamhill Counties Labor project is a statement about opportunity,” Murphy said. “With so much b h Council, will feature holiday songs by anxiety these days, we’re glad to be a part of something based on optimism Morris & Kaplan, llp Patrick Lamb, a showing of the movie for the future.” United Fund Advisors, a renewable energy company and Attorneys at Law Kung Fu Panda, a visit from Santa syndicator of tax credits, developed the project and structured the financing m k Claus, and a free goody bag. Lamb is for investor U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation, the actual a popular musician in Oregon and is a owner of the solar system. As the owner, U.S. Bancorp will get federal and member of Musicians Local 99. state tax credits. Dynalectric is signatory with IBEW Local 48 and Loftus is Oregon’s Full Service Union Law Firm Doors open at 9:45 a.m. an instructor for solar classes at the NECA-IBEW training center. The Photovoltaic Energy Generation Systems class has been part of the Representing Workers Since 1960 curriculum for all IBEW 48 journeyman and apprentices since 2002. More Broadway Floral than 1,000 union electricians are trained to do the work. For more for the BEST flowers call information, visit necaibew48.com . 503-288-5537 Serious Injury and Death Cases 1638 NE Broadway, Portland • Construction Injuries ...Buy union this holiday • Automobile Accidents LEGAL PROBLEMS ?? • Medical, Dental, and Legal Malpractice For $16 a month Season — And Buy Local • Bicycle and Motorcycle Accidents coverage includes: O Unlimited toll-free phone (From Page 1) • Pedestrian Accidents consultation with attorneys. O A comprehensive will with stat this winter to save money, you’ll want to keep warm under a Pendleton • Premises Liability (injuries on premises) yearly updates is included. Woolen Mills blanket, made by members of UNITE HERE locals 118 and 1108 O Representation for traffic tickets, at mills in Pendleton, Oregon, and Washougal, Washington. They’re available at • Workers’ Compensation Injuries accidents, criminal, and civil suits. Pendleton outlet stores and at retailers like Made In Oregon. • Social Security Claims O Coverage on IRS tax audits. O Divorce, child custody, bank- GET-AWAYS. Out of town get-aways make great gifts, and Amtrak (and most ruptcy and many more benefits.* airlines) are union. And if downtown Portland is the destination, consider a stay at THESE LEGAL SERVICES posh — and UNITE HERE Local 9 represented — Paramount, Benson or Hilton. ARE PROVIDED BY THE We Work Hard for Hard-Working People! VERY BEST LAW FIRMS SHOP AT UNIONIZED STORES. Whatever you’re shopping for, make IN OREGON & WASHINGTON. sure you do it at Fred Meyer, the only unionized general merchandise retailer in 111 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 1650 * Some services not 100% covered Oregon. In Salem and Eugene and the Portland area (except in Vancouver), Fred For more Meyer workers in non-food departments belong to the same union as the grocery Portland, Oregon 97204 information, workers — United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 555. (503) 227-4600 call 503-760-2456 Last, but not least: If you’re going to mail a card or gift, send it U.S. Postal www.bennetthartman.com or toll-free at Service or UPS, where the workers are union, not FedEx, an anti-union company (888) 252-7930 that has been in court around the country for designating its drivers as independ - Our Legal Staff are Proud Members of UFCW Local 555 www.prepaidlegal.com/info/randallnix ent contractors.

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Cash needed to complete Workers Memorial in Salem SALEM —The long-anticipated nalized by the state. The problem now The boulder will rest within a land - construction of the Fallen Workers Me - is cash. scaped sitting area near the main en - morial on the State Capitol Mall is just The memorial will consist of a large trance of the Labor and Industries about ready to proceed — when boulder with an inscribed bronze Building at 350 Winter St. NE, Salem. enough money is collected to get the plaque attached to it. The plaque will The national AFL-CIO declared green light. read: April 28 as Workers’ Memorial Day The Oregon AFL-CIO’s Safety and “In memory of Oregon’s working more than two decades ago to remem - Health Committee has been trying for men and women who suffered injury ber those who have been killed or in - more than three years to erect a perma - or loss of life on the job. jured on the job. Every year unions nent memorial in Salem to honor work - MOURN FOR THE DEAD, throughout the country hold services to ers who have been killed or injured on FIGHT FOR THE LIVING remember those workers. the job. The idea for a permanent me - “We now have an accurate estimate Workers Memorial Day, April 28. morial came in the form of a resolution of the cost using all union labor to pre - passed at an Oregon AFL-CIO conven - Donated to the State of Oregon by the pare the site and construct the memo - tion in 2005. working men and women of the rial,” said Al Dorgan, chair of the Ore - The process to locate a site and get Oregon AFL-CIO” gon AFL-CIO’s Safety and Health approval for the design have been fi - Committee and the lead man on the project. Dorgan is president of Albany Steelworkers Local 7150. LCG Pence Construction of Salem will be the contractor, with work being Organizing drive at Oregon Steel Mills falls short done by members of Laborers Local Union supporters at Evraz Oregon gon Steel Mills laid off about 130 of the played a role. When United Steelwork - Oregon Steel Mill’s agreement with 320 and Carpenters Local 1065. “The Steel Mills plant in North Portland plant’s 570 workers in early November, ers showed up in August, Oregon Steel the locals in Pueblo, Colorado comes contractor is ready to begin construc - failed to get majority support for join - and some workers felt unionizing at Mills hired The Burke Group, based in up for renegotiation next fall. Bargain - tion as soon as we have the funding,” ing United Steelworkers (USW) by a such a time was too risky. Malibu, California, which advertises it - ing could be tough if the worldwide Dorgan told the Oregon AFL-CIO Ex - Nov. 26 deadline. Plus, union organizers had to con - self as a “preventative labor relations economic downturn dampens steel de - ecutive Board at its quarterly meeting Union organizer Pete Passarelli said tend with an active steel mill rumor consulting firm” that helps employers mand, and profits. Nov. 21. about 200 workers signed cards, but mill. Among the rumors: If they union - stay “union free.” The current Pueblo contract is a To date, $20,514 has been collected, that was about 85 short of a majority. ized, all workers would lose their sen - Burke Group representatives talked five-year deal signed in 2004 as part of following a $5,000 contribution from The Russian multinational Evraz iority and have to start from scratch; up the disadvantages of unionizing at a a legal settlement that ended a six-year the state labor federation. Total cost for bought several steel mills and related workers would lose their profit-sharing mandatory-attendance union informa - labor dispute that began as a strike and the project is $49,765. facilities in the United States and bonuses, and bargaining could go ei - tion meeting held by Oregon Steel continued as a lockout. Ultimately, the Donations can be sent to: Canada in recent years, including Port - ther way, meaning that workers might Mills. No union representatives were National Labor Relations Board ruled land-headquartered Oregon Steel Mills even lose what they currently have. invited to give a counter-argument. Oregon Steel Mills had violated labor Oregon AFL-CIO and IPSCO of Canada. Where did all the rumors come “If the company really intended to law, and the company agreed to a Worker Memorial Fund Evraz left management in place af - from? Passarelli suspects anti-union be neutral,” Passarelli said, “they record-setting back pay settlement that 2110 State St. Salem, OR 97301 . ter it acquired Oregon Steel Mills in consultants hired by the company wouldn’t have hired the Burke Group.” is still being paid out. 2006. Under its union contract with two Pueblo, Colorado locals, Oregon Steel Mills agreed to recognize the Steel - workers as the representative of work - ers at the Portland plant if the majority signed union cards over a three-month period. During that time, the company allowed union organizers to talk with workers in break rooms. It made it harder that wages at the Portland mill — $14 to $15 an hour — are equivalent to those at unionized mills owned by Evraz, Passarelli said. And the bad economy made workers want to hang on to what they got. Ore -

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sweatshirts and coveralls are for sale in the office. Astoria area meeting has been canceled. Elevator Constructors 23 Lane County CLC PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE. Bend area members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23, Official at the Local 290 Training Center, 2161 SW First, Red - Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, preceded Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, at mond. by 5 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 12779 NE 1116 South A St., Springfield. PLEASE NOTE DATE Pile Drivers, Divers Brookings area meeting is canceled for Dec. Whitaker Way, Portland. CHANGE. & Shipwrights 2416 Coos Bay area members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. Notices 23, at the Coos Bay Training Center, 2nd & Kruse. Exterior & Interior Linoleum Layers 1236 Members meet 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Holiday Eugene area members meet 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. Inn, 8439 NE Columbia Blvd., Portland, for the annual 22, at the Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Park - Executive Board meets 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at pin dinner. PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE. way, Springfield. Specialists 2154 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. PLEASE NOTE Klamath Falls area meeting is canceled for Dec. Members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 1125 DATE CHANGE. Medford area meeting is canceled for Dec. Bakery, Confectionery, SE Madison, Suite 207, Portland. Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. Roofers & Waterproofers Roseburg area meeting is canceled for Dec. 18, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. PLEASE Tobacco Workers and NOTE DATE CHANGE. 49 Salem area members meet 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22, at Fire Fighters 1660 1810 Hawthorne Ave. NE, Salem. Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7. The Dalles area meeting is canceled for Dec. Grain Millers 114 Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, at 4411 SW PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE. Humboldt-Del Norte Co. area meetings are canceled Executive Board and General Membership meets 10 Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego. Marion-Polk-Yamhill Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11. for December. a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, in the meeting room at 7931 NE Meetings are at 5032 SE 26th Ave., Portland. (503 Halsey, Suite 205, Portland. Election results will be an - Labor Council 232-4807) nounced at this meeting. Glass Workers 740 Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, fol - United Steel Workers Eugene area members meet 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at lowed by a 7 p.m. General Meeting at AFL-CIO office, Best Western Grand Manor Inn, Springfield. 2110 State St., Salem. 1097 Boilermakers 500 Salem area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Salem Building Trades Members meet 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, preceded Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, at 2515 NE Candalaria Terrace, 2659 Commercial St. SE, Salem. Delegates meet 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at the IBEW Columbia Blvd., Portland. Metal Trades Council by a 3 p.m. Executive Board meeting, in the union office 280 Training Center, 33309 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. building, 91237 Old Mill Town Rd., Westport. Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11. PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE. Insulators 36 Delegates meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23. Bricklayers and Allied Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10. Meetings are at IBEW Local 48 Hall, 15937 NE Air - Members meet 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12. port Way, Portland. Craftworkers 1 Meetings are at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Sheet Metal Workers 16 The Dec. 16 meeting has been canceled. Portland members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Donations to Mid-Columbia CLC Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., Port - Iron Workers Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 3313 W. land. Carpenters 1715 2nd, The Dalles. Medford area members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. labor’s Yuletide Members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, preceded Shopmen 516 10, at Abby’s Pizza, 7480 Crater Lake Hwy., White City. by a 5 p.m. Executive Board meeting at 612 E. Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11. Eugene area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, McLoughlin, Vancouver, Wash. Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, for the third at the Local 16 Hall, 4748 Franklin Blvd., Eugene. toy drive down reading, discussion and vote on Union Dues Increase Millwrights & Machinery Coos Bay area meeting has been canceled for Dec. Resolution. Meetings are at 11620 NE Ainsworth Cir., Portland area VOC members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Cement Masons 555 Portland. Erectors 711 Jan. 7, at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE Labor’s Community Service Agency Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, at 12812 Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, preceded 178th Ave., Portland. and the Northwest Oregon Labor Coun - NE Marx St., Portland. by a 9 a.m. Executive Committee meeting, at the Car - Laborers 483 penters Local 247 Hall, 2205 N. Lombard St., Portland. cil, AFL-CIO, will hold their 12th an - Columbia-Pacific Municipal Employees PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE. Sign Painters & nual Presents from Partners Holiday Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at the Mu - Toy Drive for underprivileged children. Building Trades sicians Hall, 325 NE 20th Ave., Portland. Molders 139 Paint Makers 1094 “We anticipate greater need than in Delegates meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at Kirkland Members meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, preceded Members meet 3:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, in the the past with the struggling economy Union Manor II, 3535 SE 86th, Portland. PLEASE by a 6 p.m. Executive Board meeting at the Carpenters District Office, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. NOTE: The regular Dec. 9 meeting has been canceled. Laborers/Vancouver 335 Hall, 2205 N. Lombard, Portland. and so many lost jobs in the Portland Members meet 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 5, preceded by a metro area,” said LCSA office manager 6:15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Vancouver La - Southern Oregon CLC Clark, Skamania & bor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vanc., Wash. Northwest Oregon Delegates meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, at the Labor Vickie Burns. W. Klickitat Counties Labor Council Temple, 4480 Rogue Valley Hwy. #3, Central Point. Northwest Oregon Labor Council Laborers 320 The December meeting has been canceled. Executive Secretary-Treasurer Judy O’ - Labor Council Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Joe Connor reported that toys and cash do - Delegates meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, preceded Edgar Hall, Teamsters’ Complex, 1850 NE 162nd Ave., Southwestern Oregon by an Executive Board meeting, at the ILWU Local 4 Portland. Operating Engineers 701 nations are down from previous years. Hall, 1205 Ingalls St., Vancouver, Wash. NOTE DATE Members meet 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the 701 Central Labor Council She is hoping union locals and mem - CHANGE. Union Hall, for the semi-annual meeting. Delegates meet 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 5, at the Bay Area Labor Roundtable of Labor Center, 3427 Ash St., North Bend. bers will rally before the Dec. 18 dead - Electrical Workers 48 Southwest Washington Painters & Drywall line. Bring unwrapped gifts for chil - Electrical Workers Minority Caucus meets 6 p.m. Delegates meet 8 a.m. Friday, Dec. 19, at Hometown dren of all ages to the NOLC office at Wednesday, Dec. 10, in the Executive Boardroom. Buffet, 7809-B Vancouver Plaza Dr., Vancouver, Wash. Finishers 10 United Association 290 1125 SE Madison, Suite 100-D, Port - Sound and Communication Unit meets 6 p.m. Members meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the As - Portland area members meet 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. land, no later than Thursday, Dec. 18. Wednesday, Dec. 10, in the Meeting Hall. bestos Union, 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. T-shirts, 19, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tualatin. Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Dec. Gifts will be distributed Saturday, 10 and Jan 7, in the Executive Boardroom. Electrical Women of Local 48 meet 5:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 20, at 2 p.m. at Genesis Commu - Dec. 19, at 5th Quadrant, 3901b N. Williams, Portland. nity Center, 5425 NE 27th off Holiday Banquet Meeting, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. Retiree Meeting Notices Killingsworth. 17, at the Holiday Inn Portland Airport. Marine Unit meets 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22, in the Meeting Hall. Meetings are at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland, un - ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED partially subsidized for paid members. at Izzy’s Pizza & Buffet, 1307 NE less otherwise noted. AMERICANS OREGON CHAPTER Dues are due for the new year. Re - 102nd Ave., Portland. DEATH ASSESSMENTS: The following death as - BULL Session gives sessments have been declared for Dec. and are payable at Members meet 11:30 a.m. Thurs - member to wear your name tags and Retirees meet 11 a.m. Thursday, 50 cents each: No. 2195, Richard N. Bennett and No. day, Dec. 11, at the Refectory Restau - bring a Sunshine Division donation. Dec. 18, at Izzy’s Pizza & Buffet, gift of $375,000 to 2196, John A. Unfred. rant for the annual Holiday Luncheon. For reservations and choice of entrée 1307 NE 102nd Ave., Portland. Electrical Workers 280 (steak, chicken or fish), call Vera Lar - nine kid’s charities Bend Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, at the BAKERS 114 son at (503) 252-2296. NORTHWEST OREGON LABOR Representatives from the BULL IBEW/UA Training Center, 2161 SW First St., Red - Retirees meet for lunch 11:30 a.m. RETIREES COUNCIL mond. (Business, Union and Legislative Lead - LECTRICAL ORKERS Joint Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, at Thursday, Dec. 18, at Hometown Buf - E W 280 Business meeting from 10 a.m. to ers) Session Golf Tournament and auc - 33309 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. fet, (by Mall 205) 10452A SE Wash - Retirees meet between 11:45 a.m. 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at 1125 SE tion presented nine Oregon children’s Executive Board meets 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, at ington, Portland. and noon Monday, Dec. 8, at Home - Madison # 100G, Portland. the 32969 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. charities with checks totaling $375,000 Town Buffet on Lancaster in Salem, on Dec. 1. CARPENTERS which is next to Michael’s Craft Store. OREGON AFSCME Over 450 individuals participated in Retired Carpenters meet for lunch If you have any questions, please call Retirees meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. this year’s 18th annual BULL Session. 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 8, at Home - Don Ball at 541-327-3388. 16, at the AFSCME office, 6025 E. The event is co-sponsored by NECA- town Buffet, (by Mall 205) 10452A Burnside, Portland. Call Michael IBEW Local 48, Cadillac, and Union SE Washington, Portland. FLOOR COVERERS 1236 Arken for information at 503-239- Bank of Californian. To date, the event PAINTERS & A LLIED TRADES 9858, ext. 124. has raised over $3.375 million for local ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 5 charities. Retirees, wives and friends are wel - RETIREES LUNCH SHEET METAL WORKERS 16 This year’s recipients were Provi - come at our holiday luncheon Tues - Retirees meet 11a.m. Thursday, Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, dence Child Center, Doernbecher Chil - day, Dec. 9, at Saylor’s Old Country Dec. 11, at Izzy’s Pizza & Buffet, Dec. 11, at Elmer’s Restaurant, 100th dren’s Hospital Foundation, March of Kitchen, 10519 SE Stark, Portland. 1307 NE 102nd Ave., Portland. and Sandy Blvd. (Parkrose), Portland. Dimes, Wheel to Walk Foundation, Social hour from noon until 12:45 Shriners Hospitals for Children, p.m., when lunch will be served. A GLASS WORKERS 740 UNITED ASSOCIATION 290 Emanuel Children’s Hospital Founda - brief business meeting and drawing Painters & Allied Trades District Retirees meet 10 a.m. Thursday, tion, Gales Creek Camp Foundation, for gift certificates and table decora - Council No. 5 retiree lunch for retirees Dec. 18, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tu - Hearing & Speech Institute and Special tions will follow. Lunch costs will be will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, alatin. Olympics Oregon.

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Clay takes helm at UFCW #555 Dan Clay has been appointed acting Under the union’s constitution, the sec - president of Tigard-based United Food retary-treasurer becomes acting-presi - Zachary and Commercial Workers Local 555. dent until a successor is named. No suc - Clay was elected president of the cessor will be named. Zabinsky union in October, but the term of office This all happened Nov. 6. • Social Security doesn’t officially start until Jan. 1, 2009. Local 555 represents approximately • SSI - Disability Claims Clay defeated Secretary-Treasurer Jeff 18,500 workers in Oregon and South - McDonald in a race to succeed four- west Washington. It is the largest pri - Personal Attention To Every Case term incumbent Gene Pronovost, who vate-sector union in the state. Working For Disability Rights did not seek re-election due to retire - The union is in the midst of contract Since 1983 ment negotiations for some 6,000 grocery NO FEE WITHOUT RECOVERY Jeff Anderson, a union organizer and workers, meat cutters and central 621 SW Morrison, Portland longtime member of Local 555, was checkout clerks at Kroger (Fred Meyer, elected secretary-treasurer. He defeated QFC), Albertsons, and Safeway stores Executive Vice President Roberta Cun - in the Portland area. Employees have ningham for the open seat. been working under contract extensions 223-8517 Rather than wait two months for the DAN CLAY since July 26. new administration to be installed, Lo - Clay, Anderson and the bargaining cal 555’s Executive Board worked out a pointed by the Executive Board to com - committee met with the employer rep - deal whereby McDonald resigned as plete McDonald’s term of office. resentative on Nov. 24. Further talks secretary-treasurer. Clay then was ap - Pronovost then resigned as president. have been scheduled for Dec. 18-19. HEMORRHOIDS The Non-Surgical Treatment We specialize in the non-surgical treatment of hemorrhoids. For over 40 years people throughout the region have turned to the Sandy Blvd. Clinic for AFL-CIO prioritizes ‘09 legislative agenda fast and effective relief. For more information, FREE consultation and/or a The Executive Board of the Oregon ness energy tax credits and renewable ding, and requires them to replace the FREE informative booklet call: AFL-CIO on Nov 18 approved five leg - energy. The 2007 Legislature increased current workers doing the job with (503) 232-7609 islative concepts that it will introduce business energy tax credits for renew - workers who are disabled. The law is Write or call for THE SANDY BLVD. RECTAL a FREE Insurance when state lawmakers convene in Salem able enterprises, but the statute did not administered to allow literally anyone information CLINIC PORTLAND accepted/pre in January 2009. define labor standard requirements. The with any type of disability to qualify, re - booklet and/or a FREE Steven G. Cranford, DC, ND authorization The state labor federation will lobby AFL-CIO bill would specify that 80 per - gardless of severity or degree. The state consultation. FORMERLY THE BEAL-OLIVER CLINIC required. for bills that: cent of jobs covered should be full time, labor federation’s proposal would rede - CHIROPRACTIC/NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS • Change the definition of “manage - local jobs that pay a living wage of at fine severely disabled. 2026 NE SANDY BLVD., PORTLAND, OR 97232 rial employee” back to its previous def - least 300 percent of the federal poverty inition of “supervisory employee” in the level for a family of four, and should in - Public Employee Collective Bargaining clude health insurance and paid leave. Act. The definition was changed in Businesses receiving energy tax credits 1995’s Senate Bill 750 to exclude some would have to file an annual report employees from being eligible to join a showing they are meeting the criteria. union. • Make it illegal for employers to • Require state governmental depart - hold “captive audience” meetings relat - ments to demonstrate an actual overall ing to religion, politics and union organ - cost savings that is not based solely on izing and give employees the right to sue lower pay and benefits, before public- their employers if they are disciplined or sector jobs can be contracted out to pri - fired for not attending such meetings. vate for-profit and non-profit companies. • Reform Oregon’s Products of Dis - Under the proposal, displaced workers abled Individuals Law. The current law, would be offered jobs with the contrac - written in 1977, allows non-profit qual - tor at current pay and benefits. ified rehabilitation facilities to take pub - • Establish labor standards for busi - lic contracts without competitive bid -

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Wal-Mart Watch Bakers #114 re-elects EE BARGAIN COUNTER merges into SEIU FR Free classified ads to subscribers Lansing, Beaudoin, Clark WASHINGTON, D.C. (PAI) — Terry Lansing and Board were Nancy Mil - Wal-Mart Watch, which the Service DEADLINE: Friday prior to publication Gene Beaudoin have ner of Kroger Clacka - Employees International Union and Published 1st and 3rd Fridays been re-elected secre - mas Bakery, Mike other unions started several years ago tary-treasurer and busi - Dusek of Haggens to expose the anti-worker practices of Now accepting e-mails ness agent, respectively, Foods, Oregon City; the world’s largest retailer, formally of Bakers Union Local Robert Fenske of merged into SEIU, Wal-Mart Watch Send to: [email protected] 114. Both men ran unop - Kroger Clackamas Executive Director David Nassar said. Mail to: NWLP, PO Box 13150, Portland OR 97213 “It has become clear that neither posed. Bakery, Joel Kundert of (Please include union affiliation) Also elected by accla - Bimbo Bakeries concern for its workers nor its own mation on Nov. 11 were USA/Oroweat, Darren public image will persuade Wal-Mart to do right by its employees,” Nassar • 15-20 words • No commercial or business ads • 1 ad per issue President Shad Clark of Hamen of Kroger • All lower case ( NO CAPITAL LETTERS, PLEASE ) • Franz Bakery; Vice Pres - Clackamas Bakery, said. “In this economic climate and ident Michael Connelly TERRY LANSING Mario Aldaco of Rich - with Wal- Mart’s repeated intractabil - of Rosauers Supermar - mond Baking, McMin - ity, workers of Wal-Mart need the Ads MUST include area code or they will not be published ket, Hood River; nville, and Randy D. choice and the chance to unite their voices and bargain for better wages, 3736 Recording Secretary Georgene Bar - Roark of Kroger Clackamas Bakery. 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After 32-year career, Pronovost retires from UFCW #555 Gene Pronovost has seen and expe - longest reign in the union’s history. rienced a lot as a labor leader in Ore - Along his journey, Pronovost helped gon. But after 32 years in the business, bargain contracts that improved the he decided not to run for a fifth term as lives of thousands of union workers. president of United Food and Com - His involvement as chief co-sponsor of mercial Workers Local 555 — the a 2002 ballot measure also resulted in state’s largest private-sector union, wage increases for thousands of Ore - with about 18,500 members. gon’s lowest-paid workers — people Pronovost’s term doesn’t officially with no ties to organized labor. Voters expire until the end of the year, but to passed Measure 25, raising the state’s help ease the transition of a new team minimum wage and indexing it to in - of elected leaders, he agreed to step flation so that to this day, when costs down early. His last day was Nov. 6. go up, workers get a wage adjustment “I’m retiring at a time when labor to match it. might have some renewed hope,” “That was probably one of my most Pronovost said. “For the last eight satisfying accomplishments,” he said. years, labor has been under constant But he’s also very proud of a bill attack by the Bush Administration. I the union helped pass last year in the think things might start turning around Oregon Legislature that allows work - At age 24, Gene Pronovost was (with the election of Barack Obama as ers who have been locked out by their one of the youngest delegates to president). At least I hope they do.” employers during a multi-employer la - attend the 1977 Oregon AFL-CIO In the course of his career, Prono- bor dispute to file for unemployment convention. vost, 55, has worked in many facets of insurance. Gene Pronovost at a 2002 press conference announcing the filing of an the trade — starting out as a rank-and- “I fought a long time to get that bill law, some Wal-mart stores will union - initiative petition to increase the state’s minimum wage and provide annual file member of Retail Clerks Local through,” Pronovost said. “It was one ize. “They can’t close all their stores,” cost-of-living adjustments. Only six of 12 measures on the statewide ballot 1092 working as a boxboy and grocery of my goals before I retired.” he said, referring to a store the com - were approved by voters that year — Measure 25 was one of the six. clerk. He was an elected union rep, a Asked if he had any regrets, or pany closed in Canada shortly after hired union rep for both public and would like a “do over,” Pronovost said workers voted for the union. nomah County Employees Local 88. right in, helping to create the first shop private-sector unions, and he served he couldn’t think of anything. Cer - He might also covet a second shot at Four years later he returned to the stewards program at the local. [In stints as grievance director, member - tainly he would liked to have organ - being president of Retail Clerks Local grocery union to work for then-Presi - 1999, in his second term as president ship services director, and executive ized a Wal-mart store, something the 1092. In 1983, he ran unsuccessfully dent Ken MacKillop. In 1985, Ore - of Local 555, Pronovost launched the assistant to the president at Local 555. international union has been trying to against incumbent Mike Hereford. gon’s retail, grocery, and meatcutter first steward summit to recognize the In 1996, he reached the pinnacle of do in the United States for decades. He Shortly after the defeat, he went to locals merged to create UFCW Local hard work done by shop stewards.] his career as president of Local 555, a is confident, however, that if the Em - work for Oregon AFSCME Council 555. In 1987, MacKillop defeated In 1977, Pronovost was a delegate post he held for four terms — the ployee Free Choice Act is passed into 75, assigned as a union rep to Mult - Hereford in an election mandated by at his first Oregon AFL-CIO conven - the merger. tion. In an interview with the Labor MacKillop retired in 1996 and Press featuring young union members, members elected Pronovost as his suc - Pronovost said that he would like to INDEPENDENT RETIREMENT LIVING cessor. He was re-elected by wide see the AFL-CIO devote more energy margins or by acclamation for three toward setting organizing targets and Westmoreland's Marshall more consecutive terms. helping organize nonunion workers. Pronovost believes a large part of “I think the labor movement is go - Union Manor Union Manor his success and sustainability came ing to have to change. You can’t stay 6404 SE 23rd Ave. 2020 NW Northrup from surrounding himself with quality as you are,” he said in the 1977 inter - Portland 97202 Portland 97209 staff and stewards. “We tried to always view. “The labor movement has to be 503•233•5671 503•225•0677 stay positive and loyal to our member - educated in economics and law. It’s ship,” he said. not like the old days where it was Pronovost learned his labor philos - power politics. Now you have to jus - ophy from his parents, who were ac - tify everything.” Manors Make tivists both politically and at work. His Pronovost clung to that philosophy the Difference MARSHALL UNION MANOR father was a postal clerk at a time throughout his career. As president he Opened in January of 1974 when government employees weren’t established an aggressive organizing allowed to have a union. department at Local 555, and created a • Studio and One-Bedroom “That doesn’t mean they weren’t political action program to keep mem - LABOR LEADERS IN THE organized,” Pronovost said. “I remem - bers informed about issues that im - Apartments PORTLAND BUILDING TRADE ber going to meetings with my mom pacted their jobs. He also stayed active MOVEMENT ORGANIZED THE (who was with the women’s auxiliary) in other organizations, serving as pres - • Affordable Rent includes UNION LABOR RETIREMENT and dad to plan political events or for ident of the Portland Provision Trades something going on at work. They Council; as a vice president of the SSOCIATION IN WITH THE SOLE PURPOSE Utilities (EXCEPT PHONE AND CABLE) A 1962, were very involved.” Oregon AFL-CIO; on the Executive OF PROVIDING HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY. A native of Portland, Pronovost Board of the Northwest Oregon Labor • Planned Events, Clubs, and graduated from David Douglas High Council; as chair of the Oregon Labor “ We believe that everyone earns the School in Northeast Portland and at - Press Publishing Co. board of direc - Activities right to retire, free from pressures tended the University of Oregon for tors; as chair of the Oregon Wage and of earlier years.” two years. Hour Commission; on the advisory • Ideal Locations offer easy As many students do, he worked committee of the Labor Education and part-time as a box boy and grocery Research Center at the University of access to Bus Lines, Shopping, clerk. It was while working as a clerk Oregon; on Labor’s Community Serv - and Entertainment Kirkland Kirkland at Ernie’s Thriftway in Beaverton that ices Agency board of directors; on the Union Plaza Union Manors he met Lon Imel and Nellie Fox. Both Oregon Employment Advisory Coun - were reps for the Retail Clerks Union cil, as well as a trustee on several • No Costly Buy-In or 1414 Kauffman Ave. 3530 SE 84th Ave. Vancouver 98660 Portland 97266 and regular customers at the store. union pension and health care trusts. Application Fees “It was a highly energized union In 2001, he was appointed to the 360•694•4314 503•777•8101 store,” Pronovost recalled. international union’s Executive Board That energy apparently rubbed off. — the first UFCW labor leader from • Federal Rent Subsidies WWW.THEUNIONMANORS.ORG In December 1976, at age 23, Oregon to ever hold a seat on the Available (MUST QUALIFY) TDD 503•771•0912 Pronovost ran for and was elected a board. He will serve in that capacity union rep at Local 1092. He jumped until Dec. 31.

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Bill Sizemore jailed on contempt of court charges By DON McINTOSH truthful. time friend as its corporate officers. additional attorney fees and costs, Associate Editor “The judge was mighty upset with “It’s sad that it had to come to this,” added the money raised through ATRF The law may be starting to catch up him,” said AFT-Oregon Executive Dir- said AFT-Oregon’s Schwarz. “These to the earlier jury award owed, and an - with diehard union foe Bill Sizemore. ector Dick Schwarz. were simple requirements, like unions nounced that the union plaintiffs will At a Dec. 1 court appearance, Mult - In her ruling, Wilson detailed how and other organizations have to follow, have broad power to subpoena records nomah County Judge Janice Wilson or - Sizemore set up a complicated web of from Sizemore’s dered Sizemore jailed for contempt of organizations to allow donors to claim groups and two court. deductions for the contributions, and to “Mr. Sizemore is so blinded by his of his close asso - It was his fourth contempt of court shield their support from public ciates. charge relating to an eight-year-old scrutiny. hatred of unions, who are plaintiffs in Wilson or - lawsuit by two teachers unions against Beginning in 2006, a little over $1.1 this case, that he seems to have dered Sizemore Sizemore’s ballot measure operation. million passed through ATRF: jailed until he After a 2002 trial, a jury found that two $913,000 from Nevada millionaire concluded that he is not required to files the required Sizemore-run groups were guilty of a Loren Parks and about $151,000 from follow the law.” forms, or until pattern of fraud and forgery in getting Hire Calling Public Affairs, which is June 1, 2009. anti-union measures on the 2000 bal - controlled by Klamath Falls millionaire Judge Janice Wilson Sizemore was lot. Sizemore was ordered to pay $2.5 Bill Sizemore’s booking photo Dick Wendt, owner of Jeld-Wen, Inc. still in jail as of millions in damages to the Oregon Ed - As little as $14,000 of that amount press time. ucation Association and the American went to support ATRF’s stated mission filing not-for-profit tax returns and [Wilson’s 46-page legal opinion is Federation of Teachers – Oregon, deputies led Sizemore away in hand - “to research and publish the fiscal im - obeying the rules and regulations re - available at www.nwlaborpress.org . It which had spent money to fight the cuffs. pact of real and proposed ballot meas - garding the organizations.” contains dozens of pages of lurid detail measures. And the judge issued a de - Wilson called Sizemore’s violations ures.” In the ruling, Judge Wilson extended about Sizemore’s operation, plus a tailed injunction barring Sizemore per - of the injunction disturbing. “Together Most of the money — about the earlier injunction five more years, four-page appendix listing “examples sonally from committing similar acts. with Mr. Sizemore’s willingness to lie $856,000 — landed in Sizemore’s ordered Sizemore to pay the unions’ of deceipt by Mr. Sizemore.”] The most recent contempt charge under oath, they reflect not merely con - pocket. Just under $700,000 was paid stems from Sizemore’s creation of tempt of court in the legal sense, but to Bill Sizemore himself; $32,000 to American Tax Research Foundation contempt for the court, the judicial his wife Cindy; and $174,000 to CBS (ATRF) in 2006. ATRF, a sham charity branch of government and its processes Consulting, a for-profit corporation she incorporated in Nevada, was used to and judgements — indeed for the rule owned on paper. There was also launder contributions that supported of law.” $15,000 for a down payment for land Sizemore and his family while he Confronted with evidence that he in his wife’s name, $20,000 to buy her worked to get five initiatives on this was using ATRF to circumvent the a Pontiac GrandAm, and a $150,000 year’s ballot. court order, Sizemore promised Judge loan to get his $1.5 million home in “Mr. Sizemore is so blinded by his Wilson in October that he would have Beaver Creek ready for sale. ATRF hatred of unions, who are plaintiffs in ATRF file tax and charitable forms it money paid an auctioneer to sell his this case, that he seems to have con - was supposed to have filed in 2006 and house, went to purchase a time share in cluded that he is not required to follow 2007. Incredibly, he later withdrew Mexico, paid the Sizemore family’s the law,” Judge Wilson wrote in her rul - that promise on the grounds that he grocery bills, restaurant tabs, and on ing from the bench. might be incriminating himself because and on. It took over two hours for Wilson to the Oregon Department of Justice Sizemore tried to hide his control of read her judgment, after which sheriff’s might conclude the reports weren’t ATRF, listing his mother and a long-

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