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VOLUME 116, NUMBER 5 PRESPOS RTLAND, OREGON MARCH 6, 2015 NAFTA ON STEROIDS Fast track fight begins By Don McIntosh world’s economy, including Associate Editor Australia, Brunei, Canada, The AFL-CIO has begun an all- Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, out campaign to defeat “fast New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, track” in Congress, and a vote the United States, and Vietnam. on it is expected within days or The Obama Administration weeks. has never publicly disclosed Fast track, also referred to as what it’s proposing to other na - trade promotion authority, is tions in the closed-door TPP ne - legislation that would make it gotiations. Even members of easier for Congress to pass more Congress were prevented from NAFTA-style trade agreements seeing it initially. After U.S. — including the Trans-Pacific Sen.Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) Partnership (TPP), a super-se - campaigned for TPP negotia - cret agreement being negotiated tions to be more transparent, the Executives from TNT Development sign an iron beam as members of Iron Workers Local 29 look on. with 11 other Pacific Rim na - Administration let members of tions. Under fast track, when the Congress see its proposals — in Portland skyline changes with president presents a trade agree - a special room, by appointment, ment, Congress must hold an with no cameras, smart phones, topping out of 30-story high-rise up-or-down vote within 90 days, or paper allowed in. Yet as many tural steel and delivered with limited debate and no as 600 corporate trade lawyers Union workers get high praise have full access to the negotiat - from contractors, developer of 23,000 pieces to the proj - amendments. ect in 400 loads. If Congress passes fast track ing texts. Park Avenue West Seventy-eight union this time, the consequences Much of what the public does ironworkers had a hand in could be enormous. TPP has know about the TPP has come By Michael Gutwig putting those pieces to - been called “NAFTA on from leaked texts made available Editor & Manager gether — using 63,000 steroids” by its critics. It would by the web site WikiLeaks. Those Members of Iron Workers Lo - bolts. They placed the last cover almost 40 percent of the Turn to Page 3 cal 29 were surrounded by beam Feb. 19 at the top - media and local dignitaries ping out ceremony. Feb. 19 for a topping out cere - “The Iron Worker Lo - mony at Park Avenue West, a cal 29 guys did a brilliant Gannett pushes an exotic The final beam at Park Avenue West is 546,000-square-foot building job on this thing,” said hoisted into place during a topping out that features 13 floors of office Kevin Patterson of REFA ceremony Feb. 19. proposal at KGW, KING-TV space, 15 floors of apartments, Erection. “Everybody and two floors of retail space. went home safe.” Three unions — IATSE, IBEW, and KGW and KING, Gannett is and an evergreen tree, before At 504 feet, the 30-story As is tradition, workers pushing an exotic proposal: Get - hoisting it to the top of the SAG/AFTRA gear up for conflict union-built tower is the tallest signed the beam, which is ting rid of the clause on union ju - structure erected in downtown adorned with an American flag risdiction. Turn to Page 6 By Don McIntosh Union negotiators are trying Portland since the 1980s, said Associate Editor Mark Parsons, superintendent to make sense of what that There’s labor trouble brewing at for general contractor Hoff - means. Exclusive jurisdiction is Portland’s KGW-TV and Seat - man Construction. “This is the a core principle in American la - tle’s KING-TV. The two NBC kind of thing that makes our bor relations. It takes the form of affiliates are among 46 local tel - country strong,” Parsons said. a clause in nearly every union evision stations owned by media The high rise will reach contract that says the union rep - company Gannett, which also peak employment of 300 con - resents all workers in a given oc - owns USA Today and the States - struction workers later this cupation or workplace, and man-Journal in Salem, Oregon. month. therefore the terms of the union In bargaining with the Interna - The project also supported contract apply to all those work - tional Alliance of Theatrical over 50,000 work-hours at ers. Without exclusive jurisdic - Stage Employees (IATSE), the Fought & Co., a steel fabrica - tion, the employer could hire International Brotherhood of tor signatory with Iron Work - people to do the same work as Electrical Workers (IBEW), and ers Shopmen’s Local 516. Ac - union members, but who aren’t the Screen Actors Guild-Ameri - cording to Larry Dykier of union members, and aren’t cov - Local 29 ironworkers James Marble and Doug Green attach the final can Federation of Television and Fought, workers fabricated ered by the contract or its terms. steel beam to a cable from a tower crane operated by Anson Barrow of Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) roughly 3,527 tons of struc - “They would be able to bring Operating Engineers Local 701. over new union contracts at Turn to Page 7 PAGE 2 | March 6, 2015 | NORTHWEST lABOR PRESS

NORTHWEST cOllEcTIVE BARGAINING LABOR PRESS Swan Island shipyard workers reject contract offers (International Standard Serial Number 0894-444X) Established in 1900 in Portland, Oregon as a voice of the la - Shipyard workers at two Vigor Shipyard workers at Cascade (retro pay) in there,” said Bud to strike. It takes a two-thirds bor movement. Published on a semi-monthly basis on the first and third Fridays of each month by the Oregon Labor Industrial-owned facilities at General, Vigor Shipyard, and Bartunek, president of the Port - majority to strike. Press Publishing Co. Inc., a non-profit mutual benefit corpo - ration owned by 20 unions and councils including the Ore - Portland’s Swan Island have Washington Marine Repair are land Metal Trades Council and Vigor Shipyard is signatory to gon AFL-CIO. Serving more than 120 union organizations in turned down new contract pro - covered under one master labor area director of Painters and Al - the master labor agreement. Oregon and Southwest Washington. posals. agreement negotiated and ad - lied Trades District Council 5. Last September, Vigor Indus - Office location: 4275 NE Halsey St., Portland, Oregon At Cascade General, 221 ministered by the national Metal At the Feb. 9 bargaining ses - trial unilaterally implemented a Mailing address: workers narrowly rejected a ten - Trades Department, AFL-CIO. sion, Cascade General did agree “no tobacco” policy at all of its P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213 tative agreement in voting held The region’s respective metal to allow individual unions to se - facilities. In response, the Port - Phone: (503) 288-3311 Jan. 16. Workers are represented trades councils bargain local lect their medical plans. The re - land and Puget Sound metal Web address: http://nwlaborpress.org by the Portland Metal Trades terms and conditions in side jected proposal had called for an trades councils filed an unfair la - Editor & Manager: Michael Gutwig Council, a coalition of 10 craft agreements. across-the-board change from a bor practice complaint with the Associate editor: Don McIntosh unions. The contract expired The national agreement does - 90-10 medical plan to an 80-20 National Labor Relations Board Office manager: Cheri Rice Nov. 30, 2014. n’t expire until June 2017. medical plan. The premium on (NLRB). Printed on recycled paper, using soy-based inks, by members of Teamsters Local 747-M. At Vigor Fab, 231 workers at After workers at Cascade an 80-20 insurance plan is less A few weeks after the filing, SUBSCRIPTIONS: Individual subscriptions are facilities in Portland and Puget General rejected their contract expensive. Under the revised several hundred shipyard work - $13.75 per year for union members, $20 a year Sound, Wash., voted down a offer on Jan. 16, the sides re - proposal, each union will be al - ers at six Vigor Industrial facili - for all others. Send a check for that amount, “last, best and final” offer — turned to the bargaining table on lowed to vote on which medical ties in Oregon and Washington indicating mailing address and union affilia - tion, to P.O. Box 13150, Portland, OR 97213. 226 to 5. Voting was held Jan. Feb. 9. At that time, the em - plan they want. However, those conducted a one-day unfair la - For 25 or more subscriptions, group rates of 14. Workers are represented ployer rescinded a ratification unions whose members elect to bor practice strike during lunch $9.60 a year per person are available to trade union organizations. Call 503-288-3311 for de - wall-to-wall by Boilermakers bonus that was part of the first have better benefits will be re - break and at the afternoon shift tails. Local 104. The contract expired tentative agreement. sponsible for covering the addi - change. CORRECTIONS: See an error? Please let us on Feb. 28. “The company said the ratifi - tional cost through a wage de - Opland said the NLRB Re - know at [email protected] or by phone at 503-288-3311. Vigor Industrial is the parent cation bonus was a one-time of - duction. gion 19 ruled in favor of the company of Vigor Marine at fer, and will not be put back on Another bargaining session is metal trades councils and or - PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT PORTLAND, OREGON. Swan Island, plus several other the table for discussion,” said scheduled for March 19. dered Vigor Industrial to rescind CHANGE OF ADDRESS NOTICE: Three weeks ship building and repair facili - Brian Opland, business manager Opland of the Boilermakers the policy. The company has ap - are required for a change of address. When or - ties in Seattle, Tacoma, Everett, of Boilermakers Local 104, an told the Labor Press no new pealed. A hearing is scheduled dering a change, please give your old and new addresses and the name and number of Bremerton and Port Angeles. affiliate of the Portland Metal talks have been scheduled at for June. your local union. The company is owned by Trades Council. Vigor Fab. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS Frank Foti. Union officials consider the Last year, Vigor Shipyard in P.O. BOX 13150 Last October, Foti brought in ratification bonus equivalent to Puget Sound implemented its Broadway Floral PORTLAND, OR 97213-0150 a new 960-foot floating drydock retroactive pay to when the con - last, best and final offer on for the BEST flowers call to Swan Island, opening Portland tract expired in November. workers represented by the 503-288-5537 to new markets, such as cruise “I think it will be very diffi - Puget Sound Metal Trades 1638 NE Broadway, Portland ships and post-Panamax vessels. cult to get to a deal without that Council. Workers then voted not

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Jeff (ATU) Local 757 general coun - IBEW Local 48 to University of Houston, Dispute Resolution” process in Merkley (D-Oregon) and seven sel Susan Stoner retired effective this day. and met videographer which foreign investors can sue other senators took to the Senate Feb. 28. “My dad loved George Slanina, whom governments in special tribunals floor to speak in opposition to Over the 24 years she was an IBEW,” Stoner says. she later married. of trade lawyers — if new regu - fast track and the TPP. in-house attorney, she was an “I grew up thinking Moving back to Port - lations reduce expected profits; important figure behind the unions were wonder - land in 1988, she passed The same day, President • Agree to extraordinarily long Obama met in person with scenes in the life of the union. ful.” the Oregon bar and did monopolies for copyrighted Stoner’s legal work helped win And she still thinks outside legal work for Lo - members of Congress, including works — 70 years after the death Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore - arbitrations and defend con - that. Despite their de - cal 757 and other clients of a copyright holder; and tracts, and won reinstatement for cline, unions are still Susan Stoner until joining the union as gon), to seek support. Obama dozens of transit workers. She workers’ best de - staff attorney in 1991. • Expand drug company prof - even invited a reporter from also advised union leaders dur - fense, Stoner says, and the most Stoner says she’s grateful to its by giving them the right to ex - Portland’s KGW-TV to the ing years of battles with public democratic institutions they’ll have represented bus drivers and tend drug patents for new uses, White House for a two-minute transit agencies like TriMet and encounter. mechanics: “They are oriented requiring generic manufacturers interview in which he implied private contractors like multina - “Our job in the union,” Stoner toward service to others, and to re-run expensive tests to prove the TPP will have “tough pro - tional First Student. says, “is to resist exploitation they’re always on time,” Stoner drug safety, and outlawing sys - tections for labor rights and the Stoner, 65, is a Portland na - and the greed of the people who said. tems that price medicine accord - environment.” tive and the daughter of Cal are running our working lives.” If she has one bit of parting ing to clinical benefits. Congressman Peter DeFazio Stoner, an ardently pro-union Before settling down as a la - advice, it’s a call for unity: For the AFL-CIO, TPP comes (D-Oregon), who voted against electrical contractor. Stoner bor lawyer, Stoner says she was “Members need to realize that in a larger context of 20-plus NAFTA and every agreement Electric Group, which he a hippie and an activist. Gradu - dissension within the union em - years of trade agreements that since, just laughed at that claim. powers the employer.” founded in 1960, continues to ating from Wilson High School have coincided with record trade “These things can change at In retirement, Stoner will deficits and the loss of millions any time,” DeFazio told the La - in 1967, she joined up with spend time at home in Southeast causes from anti-war to anti- of American manufacturing jobs. bor Press by phone, “but the last Portland finishing the fifth book “Today, the trade policies of time I checked, the environmen - poverty to historical preserva - in her series of self-published tion. She worked for the home - the United States are undermin - tal provisions were meaningless historical mystery novels set ing the interests of working peo - and the labor provisions were less youth clinic Outside In, amid the labor union ferment of ple,” the national AFL-CIO Ex - non-binding, yet the ‘investor- started a women’s health clinic, 1900s Portland. Titled Deadline , ecutive Council declared in an and volunteered with a prisoner it deals with a real-life conflict state’ provisions are stronger support group. She enrolled at between cattle and sheep ranch - official statement adopted Feb. than ever: Corporations can sue Marylhurst College in 1975, and ers in Central Oregon. 23 in Atlanta. “When decisions the United States of America for earned independent study credit Stoner’s successor as ATU about economic policy are made a loss of anticipated profits — to interviewing activists in the Local 757’s general counsel is behind closed doors, those deci - undermine environmental, labor Eastern and Southern United Lane Toensmeier. sions tend to advance the policy or consumer protection laws.” 140 preferences of political and eco - Elizabeth Swager, director of nomic elites, not the broad inter - the Oregon Fair Trade Cam - ests of the populace at large.… paign, says DeFazio and U.S. trade deals — from Merkley are certain “no” votes NAFTA and CAFTA to Korea on fast track. But other members and Colombia — form a moun - of Congress from Oregon and tain of broken promises made to Southwest Washington aren’t workers. With NAFTA and Ko - signaling how they’ll vote. And rea, we were promised more fast track’s fate may depend on jobs and higher wages because Wyden, the most senior Demo - the deals would make it easier to crat on the Senate Finance Com - export U.S. products. Instead, mittee. Wyden voted for the deals made it easier to export NAFTA in 1993, and most other U.S. jobs.” trade agreements since then. But You need a lawyer Both supporters and oppo - a disagreement between Wyden who understands how nents of the TPP have stepped and Senate Finance Chair Orrin up their campaigns. Hatch (R-Utah) over the details your union disability Obama cabinet officials are is causing a delay in the fast criss-crossing the country to track bill. benefits and your stump for the TPP. Obama’s On March 4, Oregon AFL- Commerce Secretary Penny CIO President Tom Chamber - Social Security Pritzker — the billionaire Hyatt lain flew to Washington, D.C., disability benefits heiress — flew to Portland Feb. to lobby members of the Oregon 17 to talk up the TPP with local delegation. will fit together. execs at a nonunion Leatherman “I think we have a shot at Group factory. And Obama stopping this one,” Chamberlain trade czar Michael Froman — said. “But it’s going to take peo - in magazine articles, TV inter - ple calling their elected repre - views, and meetings with sentatives.” elected officials — has been selling the idea that the TPP will The Oregon AFL-CIO is holding a “Push bring jobs back to America. [It’s Back the Fast Track” rally Monday, already brought his predecessor March 9, at 5:30 p.m. at Director Park, a job: Ron Kirk, who started the 815 SW Park Ave., Portland. TPP negotiations in 2009, left in PAGE 4 | March 6, 2015 | NORTHWEST lABOR PRESS

laws. Meetings are held at 11620 NE Ainsworth Cir - Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2. cle, Portland OR. Meetings are at 5032 SE 26th Ave, Portland. (Phone: Metal Trades Council 503 232-4807) Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Thursday, March 12. uNION MEETING NOTIcES Laborers 320 Delegates meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 24. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at Joe Meetings are at the IBEW Local 48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland. Tuesday, March 10, in the Executive Boardroom. Edgar Hall, Teamsters’ Complex, 1850 NE 162nd Sheet Metal Workers 16 Ave., Portland. AFSCME 189 Residential Unit meets 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, in Portland members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at Executive Board meets 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 10. the Dispatch Lobby. the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., General membership meets 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, March Sound and Communication Unit meets 6 p.m. Portland. HAPPENINGS 24. Wednesday, March 11, in the Meeting Hall. Laborers/Vancouver 335 Medford area members meet 4 p.m. Wednesday, Meetings are at 6025 E. Burnside St., Portland. Wasco Unit meets 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at Members meet 7 p.m. Monday, April 6, preceded by March 11, at Wild River Pizza, 2684 N. Pacific Hwy., The Oregon Alliance for Retired Northern Wasco County PUD, 2345 River Road, The a 6:15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Vancou - Medford. Dalles. ver Labor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vanc., Eugene area members meet 4 p.m. Thursday, March Americans will hold its state con - Wash. Bakery, Confectionery, Washington Unit Meeting meets at 6 p.m. Thursday, 12, at 1887 Laura St., Springfield. vention Saturday, March 14, March 12, at the Coos Bay area members meet 4 p.m. Thursday, March Tobacco Workers and Grain Longview Hall,1145 Commerce Ave, Longview, 19, at Abby’s Pizza, 997 First St., Coos Bay. from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Madi - Millers 114 Washington. Laborers 483 Municipal Women of Sheet Metal meet 4:30 p.m. Friday, March son’s banquet room, 1125 SE Executive Board meets 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 31, at Bylaws Committee meets 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 20, at Beulahland, 118 NE 28th Ave., Portland. Chil - Employees dren are welcome. Madison, Portland. Guest 7931 NE Halsey, Suite 204, Portland. 16 in the Executive Boardroom. Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, at the Portland area VOC meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, Executive Board Meeting meets 6:30 p.m. Wednes - Musicians Hall, 325 NE 20th Ave., Portland. speakers are Chuck Sheketoff, day, March18 in the Executive Boardroom. at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., Portland. executive director of the Oregon Cement Masons 555 Meetings are at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland, un - Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, March 19, at 12812 less otherwise noted. Linoleum Layers 1236 Center for Public Policy, and NE Marx St., Portland. DEATH ASSESSMENTS: No. 2424, Calvin H. Hiatt; Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, March CENTRAL LABOR COUNCILS Rich Fiesta, executive director No. 2425, Eugene Guenzi; and No. 2426, Merrill H. 26. Mitchell. The March 2015 assessment is $1.50. of the national Alliance for Re - PLEASE NOTE: This meeting is SPECIAL CALL Central Oregon Elevator Constructors 23 CORRECTION: An article published in the IBEW to vote on wage allocation. Local 48 Newsletter on Feb. 20, 2015 introduced three Delegates meet 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 23, at the tired Americans. Registration is Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12, preceded new staff members of Local 48. One of their names Meetings are at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Social Justice Center, 155 NE Irving, Bend. by a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 12779 NE $12.50 and includes lunch. For was misspelled. Please note that Jon Jensen joined the Whitaker Way, Portland. staff in November of 2014, not Jon Jenkins. more information, go to Molders 139B Lane County www.orara.org . Members meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, pre - Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at Fire Fighters 452 Insulators 36 ceded by a 6 p.m. Executive Board meeting at the Car - 1116 South A St., Springfield. Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 4, at 2807 Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 11. penters Hall, 2205 N. Lombard, Portland. NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver, Wash. Members meet 7 p.m. Friday, March 13. The Pacific Northwest labor His - Meetings are at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Office & Professional Linn-Benton-Lincoln tory Association will hold a day- Fire Fighters 1660 Delegates meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, pre - Employees Local 11 ceded by a 6:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at long mini-conference Saturday, Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, March 12, at 4411 1400 Salem Ave., Albany. SW Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego. Iron Workers 29 Members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at the March 14 at the Columbia River Members meet 7 p.m., Thursday, April 2, preceded by OPEIU LOCAL 11 meeting hall, 3815 Columbia a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 11620 NE Street, Vancouver, Washington. PLEASE NOTE: Maritime Museum in Astoria. Ainsworth Cir., #200, Portland. Nominations will take place at this meeting. Marion-Polk-Yamhill Labor educators Marcus Wide - Glaziers 740 Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, Eugene area members meet 5 p.m. Monday, March 9, followed by a 7 p.m. general meeting at 4735 Liberty nor, Bob Bussel and Norm Di - at Best Western Grand Manor Inn, 971 Kruse Way, Road, S., Salem. Springfield. Iron Workers Shopmen 516 Operating Engineers 701 amond will lead a discussion Salem area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Thursday, March 12. District 4 members meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April about labor history in the region. at Best Western Plus, Mill Creek Inn, 3125 Ryan Drive Special Meetings Notice – If necessary: Thursday, 1, at Pheasant Café, 149 E Main St. Hermiston. SE, Salem. March 26, 2015 at 6 p.m. Purpose of meeting - To District 1 & 5 members meet 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Mid-Columbia For more information, contact conduct regular union business and first reading of April 2, at 555 E. First St., Gladstone. Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at 3313 W. proposed changes to bylaws. Thursday, March 26, District 3 members meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, 2nd, The Dalles. Ron Verzuh at 541-852-5540, or 2015 at 6:15 p.m. Purpose of meeting - 2nd reading at North Bend/Coos Bay Labor Center, 3427 Ash St., email rverzuh@ shaw.ca . IBEW 48 of proposed changes to bylaws. Saturday April 4, North Bend. Public Sector Employment Workshop 5:30 p.m. Tues - 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Purpose of meeting – 3rd and final day, March 10, in the Meeting Hall. District 3 members meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April Northwest Oregon reading and Vote on proposed changes to by 8, at Holiday Inn Express, 285 Peninger Rd., Central Electrical Workers Minority Caucus meets 5:30 p.m. Delegates meet 7 p.m. Monday, March 23, at IBEW Point. Local 48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland. The 26th annual labor Bowl chal - District 2 members meet 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, at the Comfort Suites, 969 Kruse Way, Springfield. lenge for Muscular Dystrophy will Southeastern Oregon be held Sunday, April 12, from Delegates meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at the Painters & Drywall Finishers 10 Woodworkers Hall, 3836 Altamont Drive, Klamath noon to 2:30 p.m. at Sunset Lanes AFSCME Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at 11105 Falls. in Beaverton. The event is coordi - Retirees meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, Glass Workers 740 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Website: www.iupatlo - nated by the National Association March 17 at the AFSCME office, Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, cal10.org 6025 E. Burnside, Portland. Call April 16, at Izzy’s Pizza, 1307 NE Southern Oregon of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch Michael Arken for information at 102nd Ave, Portland. Delegates meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at the La - 82 and the Northwest Oregon La - 1-800-521-5954 ext. 226. Sign Painters & Paint Makers bor Temple, 4480 Rogue Valley Hwy. #3, Central 1094 Point. bor Council. Since its inception in Insulators 36 Members meet 3:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, in the 1989, union members have raised Alliance for Retired Retiree breakfast 9 a.m. Thursday, District Office, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Southwestern Oregon $362,025 for MDA. For more infor - Americans Oregon Chapter April 2, at the Dockside Restaurant, Delegates meet 6 p.m. Monday, April 6, at the Bay mation, or to sign up and receive 2047 NW Front Ave., Portland. Area Labor Center, 3427 Ash, North Bend. The 2015 State Convention will be Plasterers 82 fundraising packets and instruc - held 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, at 12812 NE Marx St., Portland. tions, call Jim Falvey, president of March 14, at the Madison Banquet Iron Workers 29 Southwest Washington Room, 1125 SE Madison, Portland. Delegates meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, preceded Letter Carriers Branch 82 at 503- Registration is $12.50 which in - Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Wednes - Plumbers and Steamfitters 290 by an Executive Board meeting, at Laborers Hall, 493-5903. To donate silent auc - cludes lunch. For additional infor - day, March 11, at the Union Hall 2212 NE Andresen, Vancouver. meeting room, 11620 NE Ains- Portland area members meet 7:30 p.m. Friday, March tion items, call NALC’s MDA mation, please call 503-675-7764 20, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tualatin. The following Coordinator Debby Burbank at or go to orara.org. worth Circle #200, Portland for a locations will be able to participate remotely in the catered lunch. Regular Business Meeting at 7:30 on the 3rd Friday BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION 971-404-5384. of every month: Bend, Eugene/Springfield, Eureka, TRADES COUNCILS Electrical Workers 48 Medford, and Salem. Plumbers and Fitters 290 Astoria area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, March Retirees, wives and friends meet 26, at the Astoria Labor Temple, 926 Duane St., Asto - Columbia-Pacific A Texas Hold’em Poker Tourna - 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 10, at Retirees meet 10 a.m. Thursday, ria. March 19, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Delegates meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 10 and March ment to raise money for Doern - Russellville Park Plaza, 20 SE Brookings area members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, 17, at Kirkland Union Manor II, 3535 SE 86th, Port - Tualatin. March 24. Please contact agent Craig Spjut at 707- land. becher Children’s Hospital will 103rd, Bldg. West. For reservations 496-1767 for location confirmation. and more information, please con - Salem Retirees meet 12 noon be held Saturday, April 25, from Wednesday, March 11, at Almost Coos Bay area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, March tact Glenn Hodgkinson at 503-656- 24, at the Coos Bay Training Center, 2nd & Kruse, Lane, Coos, Curry & Douglas 4 to 10 p.m. at Sheet Metal 0028. Home Restaurant, 3310 Market St. Coos Bay. Workers Local 16 Hall, 2379 NE., Salem. Klamath Falls area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Delegates meet at noon Wednesday, March 25, at the March 24, at 4816 S. 6th St., Klamath Falls. Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Pkwy., NE 178th Ave., Portland. Buy- Springfield. The Dalles area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, March in is $50. The t op three winners Elevator Constructors 23 Sheet Metal Workers 16 24, at the United Steelworkers Local 9170 Union Hall, Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Wednes - Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, The Dalles. will receive Visa gift cards of day, March 11, at Hometown Buf - March 12, at Sizzler’s Restaurant, $1,000, $500 and $250. For fet, 10542 SE Washington St., Port - 3737 SE 82nd, Portland. Salem more information or to register, land. Roofers & Waterproofers 49 Delegates meet 10 a.m. Thursday, April 2, at the call 503-254-0123, or email Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, March 12. IBEW 280 Training Center, 33309 Hwy 99E, Tangent. [email protected] . NORTHWEST lABOR PRESS | March 6, 2015 | PAGE 5

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Operating Engineers local 701 reached tentative agreement with Local 8 Secretary-Treasurer The Portland Hilton is the the Portland Hilton Hotel and Eric Van Rossum led bargaining, largest of four union hotels in the member killed in crane accident Executive Tower on a new three- but every bargaining session was Portland area, and has the high - Christopher Pierson, a year contract covering about 265 observed by 60 to 80 workers, est wages. Others are the Para - member of Operating workers. The contract raises including the entire housekeep - mount and Benson hotels, where Engineers Local 701 em - wages $1.55 an hour and main - ing department, which would contracts expire this December, ployed at Axis Crane, tains health benefits and pension come in on breaks to watch. and the Vancouver Washington was killed Feb. 17 when contributions at current levels. If The union is recommending Hilton, which settled a contract a 35-foot beam he was ratified, housekeepers will get an ratification. Voting will be held last June. placing detached and immediate 50-cent pay increase pierced the cab of his retroactive to Aug. 1, 2014, and crane. another 25 cents every six ... Iron Workers topping out According to the months, reaching $15.20 an hour From Page 1 several years. TMT Develop - Multnomah County driving piles on a retaining wall by the contract’s July 31, 2017 ment restarted the project in Medical Examiner’s Office, project for Union Pacific. The expiration. Wages for line cooks build ing (by Anson Barrow, a 2013. Sturgeon told the Labor Pierson died of blunt force head accident occurred near the rail - and hosts are somewhat higher, member of Operating Engineers Press Park Avenue West is on trauma. The accident is under road tracks at 301 N.E. Second and dishwashers and banquet Local 701) for placement. time and on budget. Apartments investigation by the Oregon Oc - Ave. in Portland at about 5:30 bartenders slightly lower. Bell “This was a dream of my will be ready for move-in start - cupational Safety & Health Ad - p.m. Wicklander said he staff and banquet servers get grandfather’s for two decades,” ing in January 2016. Office ministration. couldn’t remember the last time minimum wage plus tips, but said Vanessa Sturgeon, president space will open in July 2016. Pierson, 40, was married and a member of his union was have full union benefits and pro - and CEO of TMT Development. “I really enjoy working with had three children (see photo). killed on the job. tections. Her grandfather, company the labor unions,” Sturgeon said. His widow, Robin, is a stay-at- Delegates at the monthly Management dropped a pro - founder Tom Moyer, died in No - “They understand the balance home mom to Aeri, 11; Owen, meeting of the Northwest Ore - posal that it have the right to vember. between the business-side and 9; and Braylen, 3. The family gon Labor Council held a mo - schedule workers for short shifts; The high rise initially broke the work-side. They’re smart moved to Keizer from Nevada ment of silence for Pierson. under the contract, shifts have to ground in 2008, just as the Great and savvy. They protect their three years ago, at which time A GoFundMe account has be eight hours. Recession hit. Work was halted workers, but at the same time he joined Local 701. been set up on Facebook to sup - Bargaining had been under in early 2009, which left a huge they’re reasonable.” Robin Wicklander, president port the family. 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Portland airport shop A union office workers want a union too like something Another group of low-wage ics, food, travel accessories and workers at Portland International souvenirs. out of Portlandia Airport (PDX) is seeking to UNITE HERE represents Keen-eyed local unionists might unionize. World Duty Free workers at the have noticed something familiar UNITE HERE Local 8 organ - Detroit, Oakland, and San Jose about a location in a recent izer Shellea Allen says more than airports. episode of the comedy show Port - two thirds of a group of 45 em - The effort to unionize World landia: It’s the regional satellite of - ployees of the multinational cor - Duty Free is part of a larger fight fice of the Pacific Northwest Re - poration World Duty Free Group to improve wages and conditions gional Council of Carpenters. Of have signed union cards. The for airport service workers. Last course, that wasn’t obvious: In the World Duty Free Group employ - September, the multinational food show, the union sign on the front of the building ees staff four shops at PDX: concessions company HMS Host was digitally replaced with “Make-A-Wish” for a skit Kiehl’s, Rich’s News, The Ore - agreed to recognize UNITE about a very immature man (played by Fred gonian, and The Market. HERE Local 8 as the representa - Armisen) diagnosed with cancer. But that is the On Feb. 18, pro-union workers tive of its 176 PDX employees at union office in Season 5, Episode 3, “Health Care,” and supporters presented a de - Starbucks Coffee, Gustav’s Pub which aired Jan. 22 on the IFC cable network. mand to local management that & Grill, Rogue Ales Public Regional Council spokesperson Ben Basom says the the company recognize their House, and Rose’s Restaurant and film crew shot a second skit at the office, which may choice to unionize, and they set Bakery. Gustav’s later closed even feature union secretary Martha Verduzco as up a brief informational picket at when airport managers cancelled an extra, though it hadn’t aired as this issue went the airport. The company de - its lease, but the union is bargain - to press. clined to respond. ing a first contract for the remain - The workers want more regular ing workers. Basom says the union was approached last year by schedules, affordable health care, The World Duty Free shops a location scout who admired the building. The Re - and wage increases, Allen said. used to be staffed by HMS Host, gional Council allowed Portlandia to use its location at no charge, and filming took place over about Currently their wages range from but the company sold its retail di - four hours Aug. 1. Portlandia is famed for lampooning Portland’s quirks. It’s available through Hulu, Oregon’s $9.25 minimum wage vision to World Duty Free and iTunes and Amazon, and on Netflix streaming. to a little over $10 an hour. World kept its food service division. Duty Free Group has over 500 stores in 20 countries, and spe - cializes in airport sales of fra - grance, wine and spirits, cosmet - ... IATSE, IBEW, and SAG/AFTRA gear up for conflict at KGW From Page 1 nated the union jurisdiction According to Gannett’s most That’s despite the fact that anyone in to do our jobs, and clause in a SAG-AFTRA con - recent annual report, about 10 Gannett is highly profitable. Low Prices! you couldn’t prevent that,” said tract at television station percent of its U.S. employees are Gannett’s broadcast revenue set Brad Anderson, executive direc - WUSA-TV in Washington, represented by unions, divided a new record in the fourth quar - tor of SAG-AFTRA in Seattle. D.C., and pushed it so hard in among 78 bargaining units and ter of 2014. The company paid “We’ve been struggling for bargaining at KSDK-TV in St. eight international unions. CEO Gracia Martore $7.9 mil - months to get an explanation as Louis that members of IBEW In Portland and Seattle, lion in total compensation in to why this is all of a sudden Local 4 launched an ongoing IATSE, IBEW and SAG-AF - 2013. And on Feb. 24 Gannett necessary,” said attorney John boycott of their employer 10 TRA are joining forces to fight announced it will pay $45 mil - Bishop, who was brought in to months ago, using billboard and Gannett, though they continue to lion in quarterly dividends. assist Portland-based IBEW Lo - radio ads, an airplane banner, bargain separately for contracts Twedell said IATSE will fight cal 48 in negotiations. and a web site and Facebook at the two stations. KGW and the health care change with an Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 9:30-5:30, Sun 12-6 Gannett has already elimi - page to call on viewers to stop KING became Gannett proper - unfair labor practice charge at the watching. ties when the company acquired National Labor Relations Board. Belo Corporation in 2013. Union reps say they won’t IATSE represents camera opera - agree to give up jurisdiction, but tors and video editors. SAG-AF - management hasn’t budged TRA represents on-camera staff. from its demand that they do. IBEW Locals 48 and 46 repre - “We have every reason to be - sent master control operators and lieve this is going to be their fi - maintenance technicians. nal proposal as well as initial, “We’re all in this together,” first of all because that’s what said IBEW Local 48 business they told us,” Twedell said. rep Donna Hammond. That sets the ground for a IATSE Local 600 representa - standoff, and the allied unions tive Dave Twedell says Gannett are beginning to line up outside is pushing other issues besides backing for a public campaign. jurisdiction. It’s also proposing to Last month the Northwest Ore - eliminate the “successor” clause gon Labor Council, AFL-CIO, that keeps the union contract in passed a resolution of support. effect if the company sells the The labor clash comes as Gan - station. And in January, it unilat - nett prepares to spin off its news - erally worsened the family health paper and broadcast/digital divi - insurance coverage — raising the sions into separate publicly- employee share of the premium traded companies, a move that from $250 to $475 a month, and has drawn interest from corpo - increasing the deductible from rate raider Carl Icahn, who owns $1,500 to $5,000 a year. 6.6 percent of Gannett stock. PAGE 8 | March 6, 2015 | NORTHWEST lABOR PRESS city of Portland passes $15 minimum for its contracted service workers Portland City Council voted City Council to use the recom - The $15 minimum resolution sponsored by Mayor Charlie Employees Local 49 and other Feb. 18 to approve a $15-an- mendations in the 2016-2017 was sponsored by Commis - Hales. groups have campaigned in sup - hour minimum wage for about budget process. sioner Dan Saltzman, and co- Laborers Local 483, Service port of the ordinance. 150 janitors, security guards, and parking lot attendants at city-owned facilities. That makes the City the third local government body in Oregon to set a $15 wage floor for at least some workers, following the Home Forward housing agency and Multnomah County. The resolution — approved unanimously by City Council — is an update to the City’s Fair Wage policy, a 19-year-old ordi - nance setting minimum wage and benefit levels for workers at certain city service contractors. The levels are currently $10.38 an hour plus $1.92 an hour for benefits. The newly passed res - olution raises the hourly wage to $15 as of July 1, 2015. The resolution also sets a $15 minimum for the City’s own employees who are in full-time, budgeted positions, though less than two dozen currently make less than that. The Portland Bureau of Parks and Recreation, however, has hundreds of part-time, seasonal, and temporary workers who are not covered by the new $15 minimum. Workers there are represented by Laborers Local 483. To address that, the resolution authorizes a task force with members appointed by the mayor and each commissioner to “assess seasonal, recreational and apprenticeship work with appropriate compensation.” The task force is supposed to com - plete its work in time for the

Teamsters ratify 4- year contract at AMR Members of Teamsters Portland Local 223 and Vancouver Local 58 ratified a new four-year col - lective bargaining agreement at American Medical Response (AMR). The 450-mem- ber bar - gaining unit provides ambulance service to Multnomah and Clackamas counties in Oregon, and Clark and Cowlitz counties in Washington. The agreement is retroactive to July 1, 2014, when the old pact expired. The new pact runs through June 30, 2018. Local 223 union rep Dave Tully said the contract preserves health care benefits and cost-of- living wage increases. AMR has been union since 1989.