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Federal judge orders employer to hire seven union painters Federal administrative law judge made allowances for Edwards’ lack of John McCarrick didn’t hold back in his legal experience. But in his decision he verdict on Edwards Painting. Edwards seems to have lost patience with Ed - violated federal labor law 18 separate wards’ thumbing his nose at the law. Knocking on ways, McCarrick ruled Sept. 26, and Section 7 of the National Labor Re - now must make amends. lations Act says employees have the Edwards Painting is a family-owned right to self-organization, to form, join, Doors with company based in Oregon City that or assist labor organizations, to bargain specializes in interior and exterior collectively through representatives of painting of multifamily residential their own choosing, and to engage in Working buildings. other concerted activities for the pur - In January 2014, owner Gene Ed - pose of collective bargaining or other wards told an NLRB agent he’d shut mutual aid or protection. That’s fol - America down the company before he’d go lowed by Section 8(a)(1), which says union. But McCarrick ordered the com - it’s an unfair labor practice for an em - pany to hire seven union painters, pay ployer to interfere with, restrain, or co - back wages with interest, and read the erce employees in the exercise of those court order in English and Spanish to Section 7 rights. his assembled employees in the pres - Keep that in mind when you con - ence of a National Labor Relations sider that Edwards Painting, more If you want to see the boots of of a day, Qolus is in Gladstone to the doorstep, she's seasoned and Board (NLRB) agent. specifically Gene Edwards and wife the Oregon AFL-CIO political op - help state representative Brent Bar - friendly. She's a dog and cat lover. Gene Edwards acted as if his com - Connie and sons Grant and Bob inter - eration, look no further than ton and state senate candidate Jamie And she’s unfazed by signs that say pany were immune to the effects of the rogated employees about union activi - Chellema Qolus. Qolus is a paid Damon. At 4 p.m., she and a “No Soliciting.” Those signs might law. He and his family went into a five- ties on numerous occasions; threatened canvasser for Working America — coworker are dropped off on the be aimed at salespeople, or might day hearing without an attorney, and to lay off or terminate employees if the AFL-CIO’s at-large affiliate. evening’s turf. They’ll split up and have been left by the previous made such a mess of the proceedings they signed a union petition, attended a Most of the time, her job is to go spend the next five hours knocking homeowner. Qolus says she gets that the voluminous transcript is full of union meeting, or voted for the union; door-to-door to build Working on doors, checking off names from half her donations from houses with dark comedy, like when the company promised a wage increase — and work America’s membership list. But a voter address list on a tablet com - “no soliciting” signs at the door. denied it was engaged in interstate throughout the winter — if they’d cease during election season, it’s to elect puter. “We’re not trying to disturb any - commerce, or argued that the Painters union activities; and told workers their AFL-CIO-endorsed candidates. Qolus, 51, has been a Working body,” Qolus tells the Labor Press. Union was not a labor organization. On Tuesday, Oct. 7, a scorcher America canvasser since 2012. On (Turn to Page 2) (Turn to Page 5) During the trial McCarrick repeatedly Portland teachers unions host festival in Pioneer Square Free pumpkins, face- tempting to impose on states. “It’s not that we’re against chal - ferings than they used to. High school the beginning. The event in the square Ironically, the test itself is incom - lenging tests,” Cohen said. “It’s the foreign language offerings are less ro - is meant to demonstrate three princi - painting … and plete and untested. Students will use high stakes associated with this test. bust. Shop class is a distant memory. ples: That students deserve to be a standardized tests. computers to take the Smarter Bal - This test has yet to be validated or Schools have fewer nurses, librarians, funding priority for the state, that a stu - anced test, but software glitches have proven, and yet they want to use it to and counselors. High-quality, prop - dent is more than a test score, and that plagued early run-throughs, and sec - measure students, schools and teach - erly-staffed maintenance of school strong schools build strong communi - By DON McINTOSH tions of the test like social studies ers, and school districts. And we just grounds and physical plant are a thing ties. Associate Editor haven’t yet been developed. In May, really question this notion that funding of the past. And in the midst of an epi - “We want students and families en - Portland-metro-area teachers the Representative Assembly of should be based on this, or that a demic of childhood obesity, many ele - gaged and involved,” Cohen said. “It unions are throwing a party Sunday. 48,000-member Oregon Education As - school would be rated positively or mentary schools lack physical educa - can’t just be teachers.” Oct. 19 at Pioneer Courthouse Square, sociation (OEA) approved a resolution negatively based on test scores.” tion teachers, and cafeterias are heating PAT and over a dozen metro-area offering free pumpkins, face-painting calling for a statewide moratorium on States are spending $1.7 billion a and serving processed foods to save on sister locals are taking part in the event, … and standardized tests. the test. And the National Education year on standardized tests, according labor costs. backed by OEA. Besides free pump - Yes, standardized tests. As part of Association, of which OEA is an affil - to the Brookings Institution — money So the event in the square is a kind kins and popcorn, the Quality Educa - the Portland Association of Teachers’ iate, is supporting a bill in Congress to that could be going to instruction. of launch party, to take forward the tion Festival will feature student per - (PAT) Quality Education Festival, one lessen the number of federally-man - That’s particularly a problem in Ore - public campaign Portland Association formances led by licensed teachers, a booth will give parents and kids a dated standardized tests. gon, where school funding has de - of Teachers waged when it faced down fun photo booth, and a video booth for chance to answer sample questions PAT Vice President Suzanne Cohen clined steadily and dramatically over district managers in February’s near- participants to record statements on from the new test that fourth graders — a science and math teacher at Penin - the past two decades when adjusted for strike. PAT won contract gains, includ - what kind of education they think Ore - are slated to take this Spring. The sula Middle School — says people inflation. After successive rounds of ing an agreement that teachers won’t gon students deserve. The festival runs Smarter Balanced Assessment is part who take the sample Smarter Balanced budget cuts and belt-tightening, Ore - be graded based on scores on student from noon to 3 p.m. Oct. 19 at Pioneer of a nationwide roll-out of high-stakes test at the booth will be surprised how gon schools today are less likely to tests that weren’t designed for that pur - Courthouse Square in downtown Port - tests the federal government is at - challenging it is. have art, music, dance, and drama of - pose. But union leaders say that’s only land. Judge orders Edwards to rehire fired workers IRS PROBLEMS? (From Page 1) • Haven’t filed for ... years? • Lost records? working conditions would improve if • Liens - Levies - Garnishments? they removed their union t-shirts. They • Negotiate settlements. told workers the union is mafia, an or - • Prepare offer in Compromise. ganization trying to steal their work, Call Nancy D. Anderson and ordered workers not to hand out Enrolled Agent union fliers at a work site. They called NPTI Fellow/America’s Tax Expert LTC-1807 the police because employees were dis - www.nancydanderson.com tributing union fliers, ordered union supporters off the property while other 503-244-2577 employees stayed behind, and told workers the company is not and would never be a union shop. They told job Low Prices! applicants that the company doesn’t hire union painters. They hired less- qualified nonunion applicants after re - fusing to hire qualified union appli - cants. They isolated pro-union workers, failed to assign work to them, and ter - minated four employees for engaging in union activity. They even opposed a fired employee’s claim for unemploy - ment benefits, after swearing he wasn’t On Oct. 13, union painters hold signs outside the South Waterfront headquarters of Reach CDC, a non-profit fired, just laid off for lack of work. And developer of low-income housing. Reach hired general contractor R&H, which hired Edwards Painting. Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 9:30-5:30, Sun 12-6 that doesn’t even touch on the drug use accusations and the death threat and But the son outdid his father: lacked any specificity and was charac - acted to the order with a stepped-up biker gang connections, none of which “I found Grant Edwards to be one of terized by his inability to recall events campaign to inform developers that the Edwards were accused of but which the most incredible witnesses I have ob - of even a few days past.” they’re employing a company that vio - featured in the case. served in over 29 years as a judge,” Mc - As of press time, Edwards Painting lates federal labor law. On Oct. 13, The story began in the summer of Carrick wrote. “His testimony was had not complied with any elements of union painters chalked the sidewalk 2013 when the vehemently anti-union given in a painfully halting manner the judge’s order. All seven fired work - and held signs outside the South Water - business — and low-road employer — with minutes passing between question ers or discriminated-against applicants front headquarters of REACH CDC — unwittingly hired a union organizer and and answer, giving the observer the im - told the NLRB they want reinstatement a non-profit developer of low-income three other union members. The whole pression that he had no recollection of or instatement. housing. REACH hired general con - saga is detailed in the 48-page legal de - events whatsoever. He repeatedly Edwards works for prominent gen - tractor R&H, which hired Edwards cision. looked to his father, who was sitting at eral contractors including R&H, Walsh, Painting as a painting subcontractor. You might be tempted to feel bad for counsel table, as if to have him provide and KeyWay. Members and staff of the the Edwards clan. They did a bad thing the proper response. His testimony Painters Union District Council 5 re - 140 or 18, but they’re not bad people. They didn’t know the law. They’re a con - struction firm without a written drug policy. They don’t keep any formal at - tendance records or even personnel files or written records that document the reasons for employee discharges. But in court, ignorance of the law is no defense. And the Edwards’ lawless - ness continued well into the courtroom. Gene Edwards shredded a document he was subpoenaed to provide. He lied un - der oath to a federal judge, or rather, as that judge politely put it: “I found Gene Edwards to be a particularly hostile wit - ness whose testimony was marked by inconsistency with his Board affidavit and his own testimony at the hearing.”

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PAGE 2 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS OCTOBER 17, 2014 SW Washington students get SW Washington Labor Council backs taste of construction careers Clark County charter change Amendment would add and one at-large (the chair). Salaries nance that has been enacted by the are lowered so that the cost for all five Council submitted to the voters for two members to County will be no more than the current cost their approval or rejection. Unlike in Commission, cut its pay, for three. Salaries of the policymak - the current system, Clark County vot - ers would be reduced from $102,000 ers could change the charter in the fu - and allow initiatives to $53,000. The chair, with additional ture if they so choose. responsibilities, would make 20 per - “This proposed home rule charter VANCOUVER — The Southwest cent more ($63,600). Adjustments to was truly created by the people, for Washington Central Labor Council, the salary would be based on percent - the people,” said Shannon Walker, AFL-CIO encourages Clark County age changes established for state leg - president of the Southwest Washing - residents to vote “yes” on a proposed islators by the Washington State ton Central Labor Council. Home Rule Charter that will be on the Salary Commission. The elected par - The Charter YES campaign is led Nov. 4 ballot. tisan offices of Clark County Asses - by co-chairs Clark County Sheriff Last November voters elected five sor, Auditor, Clerk, Prosecuting Attor - Garry Lucas and Betty Sue Morris, a county residents from each of the ney, Sheriff and Treasurer are retained former Democratic legislator and three Clark County commissioner dis - under the proposed charter. county commissioner. Community tricts to serve as a Board of Freehold - The second change puts the county members John McDonagh, Nan Hen - ers — charged with drafting new under professional management. Un - riksen, Greg Kimsey and Judie Stan - rules for Clark County government. der the current commissioner form of ton serve as members of the steering The 15-member Board was a mix of government, three commissioners committee, along with the co-chairs. Democrats, Republicans and inde - serve as “co-chief executives” as well The charter will become law if ap - pendents. Members unanimously as “policymakers.” Under the pro - proved by a simple majority of voters Jack Miller and Tom Wishard (in baseball cap), field reps with Operating elected Nan Henriksen, former mayor posed council-manager form of gov - in the general election. It would go Engineers Local 701, help a student operate a heavy equipment computer of Camas, as chair. They elected Joe ernment the council would hire/fire a into effect Jan. 1, 2015. On that day simulator at the fourth annual Cowlitz Wahkiakum Construction Fair hosted Zarelli, former Republican state sena - professional manager who has the re - the legislative and administrative by Kelso High School. Several craft unions and their respective training tor from Ridgefield, as vice chair, and sponsibility and authority to imple - powers will be separated into two centers participated in the event, which attracted 1,200 students. former Democratic state representa - ment policies adopted by the council branches of government. The charter KELSO — Construction trade Training Center; Bricklayers and Allied tive Val Ogden of Vancouver as sec - and to manage the administrative provides for the election of two addi - unions participated in the Cowlitz Craftworkers Local 1, and the Wash - retary. [Val passed away after com - branch. The council would serve as tional council members during 2015 Wahkiakum Construction Fair Sept. 26 ington State Labor Council. pleting a partial term and the Board the legislative branch: setting policy, who will be seated on Jan. 1, 2016. at the Cowlitz Expo Center. The fair, Union signatory contractor JH Kelly appointed Dan Ogden to fill his wife’s adopting the budget and representing The transitioning of the salary de - in its fourth year, was hosted by Kelso donated hard hats, eye protection and unexpired term.] the County on various boards. crease would occur over two years. High School and drew approximately safety vests for every student that par - The freeholders, who served with - Third, the proposed charter would 1,200 students from Cowlitz, Wahki - ticipated in the fair. out pay, met for about six months and give voters the right to initiate and en - akum and Clark counties. “This was an amazing community came up with a proposal that makes act legislation through the initiative The fair is designed to introduce effort that had a huge impact on our three main changes. process similar to the way statewide students to careers that they might not high school students who took advan - Their proposed charter strengthens initiatives are considered on the bal - otherwise be familiar with. Some of the tage of such a great opportunity,” said citizen representation by going from lot. Through the referendum process union crafts displaying their wares Mollie DuBois, a career specialist at three commissioners to five council voters could petition to have an ordi - were Operating Engineers Local 701; Kelso High School and event organizer. members, with four elected by district Plumbers and Fitters Local 26; the Ore - gon and Southwest Washington Mason Trades Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee; the Washington and North - Broadway Floral ern Idaho District Council of Laborers for the BEST flowers call and Local 335; Cowlitz Fire Depart - 503-288-5537 ment; IBEW Local 48 and the National Electrical Contractors Association 1638 NE Broadway, Portland

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WATERPROOFERS 49 Astoria area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, IRON WORKERS 29 MACHINISTS 1432 Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6. at the Astoria Labor Temple, 926 Duane, Astoria. Brookings area members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, preceded by Swing and graveyard shift members meet at 11 a.m. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13. Auto Mechanics 1005 Oct. 21. Please contact Craig Spjut at 707-496-1767 for a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 11620 NE Monday, Nov. 10. Meetings are at 5032 SE 26th Ave., Portland. (Phone: Executive Board meets 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. location information. Ainsworth Circle #200, Portland. Regular membership meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 503 232-4807) 12. Coos Bay area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12. Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, preceded 21, at the Coos Bay Training Center, 2nd & Kruse, Coos PLEASE NOTE: Nominations will be held at the by a 9 a.m. shop stewards’ training session. ALL MEM - SALEM BUILDING TRADES Bay. IRON WORKERS Nov. 12 meeting for three (3) Executive Board positions BERS are invited to shop stewards’ training. Stewards Klamath Falls area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, (1-year term); three (3) Auditors (1-year term); and one Delegates meet 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at the must attend steward meeting to be compensated. Oct. 21, at 4816 S 6th St., Klamath Falls. SHOPMEN 516 (1) Conductor (3-year term). Elections, if needed, will be IBEW 280 Training Center, 33309 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. All meetings are at 25 Cornell, Gladstone. The Dalles area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13. held at the December meeting. PLEASE NOTE: Rochelle Conrad will be available 21, at the United Steelworkers Local 9170 Union Hall, Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 22. PLEASE Meetings are at 25 Cornell, Gladstone. from 8 a.m. to noon during the Regular Lodge meeting SHEET METAL WORKERS 16 The Dalles. NOTE DATE/TIME CHANGE. to answer any questions you Oct. have about Health and Portland area VOC members meet 6 p.m. Wednes - Welfare and Pension plans. Meetings at 11620 NE Ainsworth Circle, #300, Port - land. MARION -P OLK -Y AMHILL day, Nov. 5, at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., Portland. CEMENT MASONS 555 LABOR COUNCIL Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, LABORERS 483 Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, preceded by at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at 12812 Portland NE Marx St., Portland. a 6:30 Executive Board meeting, at 1400 Tandem Ave. MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES SE., Salem. Medford area members meet 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the Mu - 12, at Wild River Pizza, 2684 N Pacific Hwy., Medford. CENTRAL OREGON sicians Hall, 325 NE 20th Ave., Portland. Eugene area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. METAL TRADES COUNCIL 13, at the Local 16 Hall, 1887 Laura St., Springfield. LABOR COUNCIL Delegates meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28. Coos Bay area members meet 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. LABORERS /V ANCOUVER 335 Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13. 20, at Abby’s Pizza, 997 First St., Coos Bay. UNITE HERE Delegates meet 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at the So - Women of Sheet Metal Workers Local 16 (WOSM) cial Justice Center, 155 NE Irving Ave., Bend. Members meet 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, preceded by Meetings are at IBEW 48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport a 6:15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Vancouver Way, Portland. meet 4:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, at Beaulahland, 118 NE Labor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vanc., Wash. 28th Ave., Portland. Children are welcome. victory at airport COLUMBIA -P ACIFIC Seattle-headquartered UNITE MOLDERS 139B SIGN PAINTERS & BUILDING TRADES LABORERS 320 Members meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, pre - HERE Local 8 is reporting a union or - Delegates meet 10 a.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 21 and Nov. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at Joe ceded by a 6 p.m. Executive Board meeting at the Car - PAINT MAKERS 1094 ganizing win among food service Edgar Hall, Teamsters’ Complex, 1850 NE 162nd Ave. penters Hall, 2205 N. Lombard, Portland. 4, in Kirkland Union Manor II, 3535 SE 86th, Port - Members meet 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, in the workers at the Portland International land. District Office, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Delegates meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, at the MULTNOMAH COUNTY Airport. Vancouver Labor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., LANE COUNTY HMSHost, which runs concessions Vanc., Wash. EMPLOYEES 88 under a contract with the Port of Port - ABOR OUNCIL SOUTHEASTERN OREGON L C Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5. land, agreed to voluntarily recognize ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, at Any member in good standing may attend as a non-vot - LABOR COUNCIL Bylaws Committee meets 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, 1116 South A St., Springfield. ing visitor. Delegates meet 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at the the union if a majority of its 176 Port - in the Executive Boardroom General membership and stewards meet 6 p.m. Woodworkers Hall, 3836 Altamont Drive, Klamath land airport employees signed union General Membership Meeting meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19. Meeting agendas may be viewed Falls. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Meeting Hall. Doors open at on the AFSCME Local 88 webpage on the Monday cards. On Sept. 30, a neutral arbitrator 5:30 p.m. LANE , C OOS , C URRY & prior to the Wednesday meeting. determined that a majority did sign Meetings are at 6025 E. Burnside, Portland. SOUTHERN OREGON Marine Unit meets 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in the DOUGLAS BCTC cards. Dispatch Lobby CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL RENEW meets 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, in the Ex - Delegates meet at noon Wednesday, Oct. 22, at the UNITE HERE represents thou - ecutive Boardroom Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Parkway, Delegates meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at the Labor Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Nov. Springfield. NORTHWEST OREGON Temple, 4480 Rogue Valley Hwy.#3, Central Point. sands of employees in airport conces - 5 and 12, in the Executive Boardroom LABOR COUNCIL sions and airline catering industries at Coast Unit meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at Astoria OUTHWESTERN REGON airports in the U.S. and Canada. Labor Temple, 926 Duane St., Astoria Delegates meet 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, at IBEW Lo - S O Meetings are at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland, un - LINN -B ENTON -L INCOLN cal 48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland. CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL HMSHost — formerly known as less otherwise noted LABOR COUNCIL Delegates meet 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, at the Bay Host Marriott Services Corporation — DEATH ASSESSMENTS: No. 2405; Wayne J. Area Labor Center, 3427 Ash, North Bend. Hunter; No. 2406, Thomas A. Henderson; No. 2407, Delegates meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, preceded OFFICE AND PROFESSIONAL is a subsidiary of the Italian multina - James L. Edwards; and No. 2408, Jerry J. McGuire. The by a 6:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 1400 Salem EMPLOYEES LOCAL 11 tional Autogrill. Oct. 2014 assessment is $1.50. Ave., Albany. SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON Members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, at the Local At the Portland airport, HMSHost Union Office, 3815 Columbia St., Vancouver. LINOLEUM LAYERS 1236 CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL employees staff Starbucks Coffee, LECTRICAL ORKERS Delegates meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at Labor - Gustav’s Pub & Grill, Rogue Ales Pub - E W 280 Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. PAINTERS & D RYWALL ers Hall, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vancouver, WA. Executive Board meets 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 23, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. lic House, and Rose’s Restaurant and at 32969 Hwy. 99E, Tangent, OR. Executive Board meets 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, at FINISHERS 10 Bend Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at the 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, at 11105 Bakery. IBEW/UA Training Center, 2161 SW First St., Red - Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. NE Sandy Blvd., Portland.Website: www.iupatlo - mond. Eugene Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, at the LU 290 Training Center, 2861 Pierce Parkway, Springfield. Salem Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at Retiree Meeting Notices South Salem Senior Center, 6450 Fairway Ave., SE, Salem. ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED Salem, which is next to Michael’s Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 25 Cornell, CORRECTIONS AMERICANS OREGON CHAPTER Craft store. Gladstone. ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS In the Oct. 3 issue, the article 23 Delegates meet 10 a.m. Thursday, If you have any questions, please Nov. 13, at 3645 SE 32nd, Portland. give Don Ball a call at 541-327-3388. OREGON AFSCME “Union uncovers wage theft at Pearl Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, preceded by a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 12779 NE Retirees meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. District apartment” contained several Whitaker Way, Portland. PLEASE NOTE: At the BAKERS 114 ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS 23 21, at the AFSCME office, 6025 E errors. The article said developer nomination meeting, all positions were unopposed Robert Ball “ran for Portland mayor in and elected by acclamation. Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Retirees meet 11:30 a.m. Wednes - Burnside, Portland. Call Michael Oct. 23, at Izzy’s Pizza, 1307 NE day, Nov. 12, at HomeTown Buffet, Arken for information 1-800-521- 2008” and “teamed up” with Eugene 102nd Ave, Portland. 10542 SE Washington St., Portland. 5954 ext. 226. developers Don Woolley and Tom FIRE FIGHTERS 452 Connor on The Parker apartment proj - Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at 2807 ect. Ball considered a run for Portland NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver, Wash. ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 INSULATORS 36 TRANSIT UNION 757 Retirees, wives and friends meet for Retiree breakfast 9 a.m. Thursday, Retirees meet 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, mayor in 2007, but was not formally a FIRE FIGHTERS 1660 lunch 11:30 a.m Tuesday, Nov. 11, at Nov. 6, at the Dockside Restaurant, Nov. 5, at Westmoreland Union candidate. And a spokesperson for Ball Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at 4411 SW Bob’s Red Mill Deli, 5000 SE Inter - 2047 NW Front Ave., Portland. Manor, 6404 SE 23rd, Portland. said Ball’s company, Astor Pacific, Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego. national Way, Milwaukie. For reser - purchased the land from a company at which Woolley and Connor are the GLASS WORKERS 740 vations and more information, please UNITED ASSOCIATION 290 RON ORKERS principal officers, but that Woolley and Executive Board members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, contact Glenn Hodgkinson at 503- I W 29 Rusty Pipe retirees meet 2 p.m. Nov. 6, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. 656-0028. Retirees meet 12 noon Wednesday, Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Springfield Connor were not otherwise involved in Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, Nov. 12, at 11620 NE Ainsworth Cir., Training Center, 2861 Pierce Park - the project. Also, the article listed at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. SPECIAL CALL: VOTE ON WAGE/H&W CHANGES. ELECTRICAL WORKERS 280 Portland for a catered lunch. way, Springfield. Prairie Electric as an example of a Eugene area members meet 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, Retirees meet between 11:45 a.m. Portland area retirees meet 10 a.m. union subcontractor employed by gen - at Best Western Grand Manor Inn, 971 Kruse Way, eral contractor Lorentz Bruun. Prairie Springfield. SPECIAL CALL: VOTE ON and noon Monday, Nov. 10, at The MACHINISTS Thursday, Nov. 20, at 20210 SW WAGE/H&W CHANGES. Old Country Buffet on Lancaster in Retired Machinists meet 10 a.m. Teton Ave., Tualatin. is nonunion. Salem area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, at

PAGE 4 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS OCTOBER 17, 2014 Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler To break into Portland residential market, proposes Ballot Measure 86 By JEFF KLATKE, grow beyond the value of the original an electricians union offers incentives Oregon AFSCME president bond issuance. International Brotherhood of There are universities that have cre - Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local Oregon Treasurer Ted Wheeler has ated similar funds and use them to of - 48 has launched a campaign to in - come up with another good idea. His fer various forms of financial assis - crease its presence in residential proposed Ballot Measure 86 would au - tance like loans or grants or a work. Known as the +5 Residential thorize a fund that would provide fi - combination of loans and grants. The program, or Plus5PDX, it offers nancial assistance to students pursuing final products that would be available customers a service agreement that career training, technical or profes - in Oregon would be the decision of the adds five years to the standard one- sional education. Oregon Legislature. Measure 86 re - year warranty. The program also of - As the costs of education continue quires the creation of this fund and al - fers, free of charge: five low-voltage to rise, education beyond high school lows bonds to be issued to create it. cable hookups, a $250 credit the has become cost-prohibitive for many, Why would this kind of financial homebuyer can use for future elec - limiting career paths of workers in assistance be a good investment in trical work, and a Legrand On-Q nearly every field. Measure 86 gives Oregon’s work force? The growth in Enclosure, which is a central con - students of all ages an opportunity to the Oregon economy and the Oregon nection point for things like inter - pursue that education that might other - job market is based on skills. The need com, camera, and internet systems. wise be out of reach. for unskilled labor will always exist, Plus5PDX is targeted at home Measure 86 amends the Oregon but advancement in a trade, craft or builders or homeowners doing re - Constitution to allow the state to issue profession is based on the acquisition models or additions. It’s expected to bonds to create an endowment fund of skills. These skills can be acquired be something union contractors can that remains in perpetuity. The interest both inside and outside the classroom. use as a selling point when compet - earnings from this fund would be used This fund gives people seeking acces - ing for new business. At Portland’s Fall Home and Garden Show Oct. 3, Oscar Mérida and to provide financial assistance to stu - sible and affordable. Indiana IBEW Local 697 came Sue Harris of IBEW Local 48 debut a new incentive program for dents at public colleges and universi - For these and other reasons, the up with the idea, which has also builders and homeowners to consider union contractors. ties in Oregon. The bonds that could Portland Tribune, the Salem States - been taken up by IBEW Local 46 in ing construction. The Local 48 resi - best work possible.” be issued could only be a tiny fraction man-Journal, the Eugene Register- Seattle. IBEW’s international office of the state’s debt capacity, but could Guard, the Portland City Club, the is encouraging other locals to offer dential agreement, which includes a The Plus5PDX campaign de - union scale of $28.25 an hour plus buted with a booth at the Portland result in hundreds of millions of dol - American Federation of Teachers, the the program. Expenses are covered lars for the endowment and tens of mil - Oregon Education Association, the through the Electrical Industry Ad - $11.85 an hour in benefits covers Fall Home and Garden Show Octo - about 45 members of Local 48 who ber 2-5. It will also be promoted lions of dollars available every year for Oregon Nurses Association, Service vancement Fund, which is adminis - students. Employees International Union Local tered jointly by the union and the are on its residential list. Thirty- with yard signs and window decals. seven contractors are signed on to So far, 11 contractors have signed The fund would also be eligible to 503, and Oregon AFSCME encourage National Electrical Contractors As - accept charitable contributions and you to vote yes on Ballot Measure 86. sociation (NECA). the agreement. up to take part. The campaign has a Just 9 percent of residential elec - “With a lot of people, as soon as web site, plus5pdx.org , and a hot - trical work in the Portland area is they hear union they assume it’s go - line, 1-844-plus5pdx, where a list of currently performed by union-sig - ing to be overpriced,” Mérida told participating contractors is avail - natory contractors, says Local 48 or - the Labor Press. “But there’s a rea - able. ganizer Oscar Mérida, and most of son we get paid what we get paid. that is in larger multi-family hous - We train the best, and perform the

Doorknocking with Working America (From Page 1) an 83-year-old Republican who says Lois takes some literature and national security is her top issue. follows Qolus out to the street, “I’m giving people an opportunity to "What about issues for the state adding that she doesn’t like Obama, participate.” legislature?" Qolus asks. or Obamacare, or Clinton. Maybe At 4:30 p.m., a voter named Paul Jobs and schools, Lois replies. they don't agree on some things, Qo - is home and answers the door. A Re - She thinks schools could use more lus says. But Lois can tell Qolus be - publican, he says he doesn’t vote the money. lieves in what she's doing. party line, but considers candidates Qolus delivers a rap about Bar - “It’s our impression that matters,” on their merits. “Schools and jobs,” ton: He helped get more money for Qolus tells the Labor Press after - he answers, when Qolus asks what schools this year. ward. issues are most important to him. The money will probably go to Qolus and her coworkers have Qolus next names the candidates for overpaid higher-ups, Lois says. been out helping candidates in close state house and senate in his district, Actually, Qolus says, the Legis - races since Aug. 25, talking to Dem - and asks if he knows which one he’ll lature told districts the extra money ocratic, Republican and independent vote for. He favors Democrat Barton had to be used to reduce class size. voters. for House, but is thinking about vot - In other words: Hire teachers. Bar - For the state labor federation, it’s ing for the Republican for Senate. ton also got the state to commit $5 an investment in people power. Qolus explains that Working million to redevelop a closed-down Gone are the days when an Oregon America, a nonpartisan organiza - paper mill nearby, Qolus adds, and AFL-CIO endorsement meant a tion, has endorsed Barton and Da - required that any work done on the check to a candidate’s coffers. To - mon, both Democrats. Damon is a site be paid a living wage. day, the labor federation wages its professional mediator, and that may That sounds fine, Lois says … if own election campaign, in which be just what the closely divided Sen - it ever gets built. Lois says she union volunteers and employees ate needs to get any work done, Qo - watches Fox News, and is fed up supplement a full-time field opera - lus says. Paul takes her flier, prom - with all the political negativity. tion — staffed by Chellema Qolus ises to consider it, and agrees to “You haven’t heard me say any - and 24 other Working America can - share his email address. She thanks thing negative, have you?” Qolus vassers. him, and is on her way to the next asks. Qolus says she’s met Barton. door, making notes on her tablet He’s direct and honest and ap - about the encounter. proachable. Next to answer the door is Lois,

OCTOBER 17, 2014 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 5 ATU and TriMet reach deal TriMet and Amalgamated Transit Before the tentative agreement was Who’s On Our Side? Union (ATU) Local 757 reached tenta - announced, it looked like this contract tive agreement Sept. 30 on a new union too was headed for binding arbitration. By Tom Chamberlain contract, but neither side is releasing TriMet declared an impasse in negotia - terms of the deal to the public until tions on May 14, but the two sides con - Recently, U. S. Speaker of the Three out of every 20 students members have had a chance to see the tinued to meet with the assistance of House John Boehner was caught graduate. Seventeen don’t. agreement and vote on it. state mediator Janet Gillman. on tape expressing his true opinion We have turned into a society Details were made available to Lo - If the deal is ratified, the two sides of the unemployed: “Unemployed that is quick to blame the victim class. The loss of jobs is undeni - cal 757 members at TriMet on Oct. 14. have also agreed to drop all pending people just sit around and don’t rather than find solutions. Speaker able. But the blame is placed on the They will vote on it by mail, with bal - unfair labor practice cases. Local 757 think they have to work,” he said. Boehner’s comments on the unem - worker. The say more skilled and lots to be counted Oct. 24. The agree - had challenged the arbitrator’s award Speaker Boehner must be un - ployed reveal some insight into the educated workers are needed, or we ment covers about 2,000 workers and on the grounds that elements of aware that there are two job appli - thinking of those with wealth and can’t compete. I am always in fa - 1,200 retirees, though only active mem - TriMet’s final offer were unlawful. cants for every job opening. He power. vor of a highly trained workforce. bers vote on it. The TriMet Board is ex - If approved, the new agreement must be unaware that unemployed If we can blame those who work But manufacturing jobs or other pected to vote on the agreement at its would be retroactive to Dec. 1, 2012, workers are listening to the hollow minimum wage jobs or the unem - types of occupations that histori - Oct. 22 meeting. and would run through Nov. 30, 2016. promise that education is the key to ployed for not working hard cally fit the definition of a middle The four-year agreement comes The two sides got off to a late start ne - a better life, going back to school, enough to better their lives; if we class job don’t necessarily translate nearly two years after the old union gotiating due to a legal dispute over racking up debt to pay for their de - can destroy economies with out-of- into a good paying jobs. There are contract expired. That contract was the whether bargaining should be open to gree or certificate, only to find a balance trade agreements that ex - thousands of manufacturing jobs in result of binding arbitration: The arbi - the public, and made slow progress minimum wage or sub living wage ploit workers and force those same Portland that pay sub-middle class trator had to choose one side’s final of - once face-to-face bargaining began in job with no benefits awaiting them. workers to flee their homelands in wages with few or no benefits. fer, and chose TriMet’s. September 2013. Mr. Boehner must be unaware that search of work to feed their fami - Those who promote good jobs, the his drive to further corporatize our lies; if we can shift the responsibil - need for increased job skills, the economy has resulted in colleges ity of health care and pensions from need for greater individual respon - — especially some for-profit pri - the employer or government onto sibility, apparently believe that vate colleges — becoming more the backs of the workers, then it be - good paying jobs with benefits just focused on their bottom line than comes much easier to dismantle happen. on providing an education to lift America’s tattered social safety net. Good jobs don’t just appear. Americans out of the grips of Unemployment insurance, So - That strategy will continue to fail poverty. cial Security, Medicare and Medi - because the thirst for increased For-profit colleges such as the caid, food for the hungry, housing, profit will continue to come at the University of Phoenix have been education and a host of other pro - expense of workers. The fact is the the subject of many news articles. grams from the New Deal of the only way to counter the blame There’s reason for that. In 2011, 88 1930s and the Great Society of the game and to ensure that we do cre - percent of the University of 1960s are being transformed into ate good-paying jobs is to ensure Phoenix’s income came from fed - for-profit, private sector, programs that workers have power. eral programs, most of it from stu - that put the expense squarely on the And that requires having a union dent loans that equate to $3.2 bil - backs of workers. card in their hands. lion. Almost a quarter of their Good job creation is just another students default on their loans. Ac - example of blaming the worker. cording to the Washington Post , in We all talk a good game about Tom Chamberlain is president of 2013 the University of Phoenix good job creation. Everyone seems the Oregon AFL-CIO. graduation rate was 16 percent. to be aware of the shrinking middle

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PAGE 6 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS OCTOBER 17, 2014 Worker advocate Kyle Allen runs for Hillsboro City Council A union activist and graduate of the ate and Obama for President cam - United Food and Commercial Workers Oregon Labor Candidate School is run - paigns. At that time he joined the Of - Local 555; Portland Community Col - ning for an open seat on the Hillsboro fice and Professional Employees Inter - lege (PCC) Federation of Faculty and City Council. national Union. Working America is a Academic Professionals, Oregon Attor - Kyle Allen, director of field opera - community affiliate of the national ney General Ellen Rosenblum, Metro tions for the Oregon chapter of Work - AFL-CIO. It was started as a way for Council President (and former mayor ing America, is facing a challenge from people who don’t have a union in their of Hillsboro) Tom Hughes, and current business consultant and Hillsboro workplace but who sympathize with Hillsboro Mayor Jerry Willey. School Board member Monte Akers. the economic fairness political agenda The term-limited incumbent Aron They both want to succeed council of the union movement. To date, the Carleson supports Allen, and she has president Aron Carleson, who is term Oregon chapter has 197,000 registered become somewhat of a mentor to his limited and cannot run for re-election. members. campaign, said Allen, who regularly at - Allen, 29, is a native Oregonian After the election Allen did some tu - tends City Council meetings and work raised in a union household in the Port - toring. He rejoined Working America sessions. land Public School District. His mother in 2012 as its Oregon field director. In late August, a third candidate vy - is a mental health nurse for the State of He and his wife and two young chil - ing for the open Ward 2 seat withdrew Oregon and is a member of the Oregon dren have lived in Hillsboro for nearly and endorsed Allen. Brenda McCoy Nurses Association. His father recently three years. Allen serves as president of cited insufficient fundraising and con - retired from Union Pacific Railroad as his homeowners’ association and is on cern that splitting votes with Allen an engineer and is a member of the the Hillsboro Budget Committee. He would result in the election of Akers. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers volunteers in the community for Home - Kyle Allen (right) poses for a photo with Joe Esmonde, political coordinator Hillsboro City Council is a volun - and Trainmen. Plate (collecting clothing for homeless for IBEW Local 48 at this year’s Labor Day picnic at Oaks Park. Allen is teer, nonpartisan position. However, After graduating from Madison youth), Family Bridge (providing running for an open seat on the Hillsboro City Council. Allen is a registered Democrat and Ak - High School, Allen attended Mt. Hood meals to homeless families), and ers is non-affiliated, though he’s en - Community College (MHCC). He SMART (Start Making a Reader To - would be attending. School budget cuts Candidate School, a union-sponsored dorsed mostly by Republicans. went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in day). He’s a Democratic Precinct com - eliminated bus service and kids were program that trains union members to Hillsboro is in Washington County education through Eastern Oregon Uni - mitteeperson and has served as an al - literally walking in the streets, he said. be successful candidates for elected of - and is Oregon’s 5th largest city with versity’s satellite program at MHCC. ternate delegate to the State Central Two schools in particular — 61-year- fice. He graduated in April and has 93,340 residents. It is expected to add While attending school he worked Committee for the Washington County old Brookwood Elementary and 46- been campaigning hard ever since. 25,000 new residents over the next in the nonunion service industry, and Democrats. year-old WL Henry Elementary — He has endorsements ranging from decade, Allen said. The City has more part-time at UPS on Swan Island, Allen said he became interested in were in dire need of sidewalks. the Northwest Oregon Labor Council than 700 full-time employees and 250 where he joined the Teamsters Union. the city council race after inquiring One thing led to another, and he de - to the Hillsboro Chamber of Com - part-time/temporary employees. Only Working America hired him in 2008 about getting sidewalks put in front of cided to throw his hat in the ring. merce. He also has backing from the police and firefighters are represented to do outreach for the Merkley for Sen - the elementary school that his children Allen attended the Oregon Labor Hillsboro Fire Fighters Association, by a union.

OCTOBER 17, 2014 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 7 Lobbyist Mary Botkin to leave AFSCME Union lobbyist Mary Botkin has an - and corrections members. She was the nounced she’s leaving Oregon AF - subject of a Labor Press feature story in SCME Council 75 after representing 2007. the union in the state Capitol for the last On her own time, she’s been active 27 years. in the Democratic Party, and has been Botkin, 66, has been on staff at the an Oregon delegate to every Demo - statewide public sector union since cratic National Convention but one 1983. She served as an organizer on the since 1988. She’s currently active in the 1985 campaign to unionize at what is Ready for Hillary campaign to build today known as Oregon Health and support for a Clinton presidential run in Science University, and she’s been a 2016. full-time lobbyist for the union since Botkin says she will leave the staff 1987. of Oregon AFSCME as of Dec. 31, Botkin is known as an expert on 2014, and begin a practice as a contract PERS, Oregon’s Public Employee Re - lobbyist. She will represent Oregon tirement System, and has long been an AFSCME as a part-time contract lob - advocate for the union’s public safety byist in the 2015 legislative session. On the ballot in Washington This year’s Washington state ballot Herrera Beutler got 47 percent, and a the state legislature’s responsibility to has less drama than usual: No high- right-wing challenger got 12 percent. appropriate the funds. Besides WSLC, stakes ballot measures or statewide can - On the statewide ballot, WSLC is the measure is backed by Washington didate races to decide, and no close recommending a “Yes” vote on Initia - State Building Trades Council, Ma - races for U.S. Congress. tive 1351 , which would direct the leg - chinists District Lodge 751, IBEW, But that doesn’t mean labor will be islature to reduce class size — to less SEIU, and the Washington Education sleeping through the vote. For the state than 18 students per class in kinder - Association. labor federation — Washington State garten through third grade, and less For Washington Supreme Court, Labor Council (WSLC) — the priority than 26 students in fourth through 12th WSLC is endorsing Mary Yu (Position is electing a pro-worker majority in the grade. The measure would codify into 1), Mary Fairhurst (Position 3), Charles State Senate. After the 2012 election, state law a 2012 Washington Supreme Johnson (Position 4), and Debra Democrats Tim Sheldon and Rodney Court decision, McCleary v. State of Stephens (Position 9). Tom handed control of the state senate Washington , in which the court found Southwest Washington Central La - to the Republicans. That resulted in the state wasn't meeting its constitu - bor Council has also made endorse - gridlock, because the state house and tional obligation to fully fund basic ed - ments in two local races. It’s backing governor’s office are in Democratic ucation. Implementing the class size re - former state senator Craig Pridemore hands. Very little legislation was passed strictions would make it necessary to for Clark County Commissioner. And in 2013 or 2014. Tom chose not to run hire about 15,000 new teachers. The it’s endorsing a proposed set of county for re-election, but WSLC would dearly measure doesn’t say how the money charter changes [See article Page 3.] like to unseat Sheldon in District 35, should be raised, just that it would be northwest of Olympia. No state senate seats in Southwest Washington are considered close races, but WSLC and the Southwest Wash - ington Central Labor Council have been actively backing Monica Stonier for re-election to the state house in the 17th legislative district. The district runs east of I-205 from Northeast Van - couver nearly to Battle Ground. Stonier is a former public school teacher who earned an 85 percent pro-labor voting record in her first two-year term. She’s in a close race against challenger Clark County Republican Party chair Lynda Wilson, a Tea Party activist who wants to block local minimum wage increases and who testified in Olympia this year in favor of a sub-minimum wage. The Southwest Washington Central Labor Council has been phone-banking for Stonier up to twice a week at the Fire Fighters Local 452 union hall. Also in Southwest Washington, WSLC is endorsing incumbent state representatives Sharon Wylie and Jim Moeller in the 49th legislative district (Vancouver). The state federation, along with 16 other labor organizations, is also en - dorsing Democrat Bob Dingethal ’s challenge to incumbent Republican Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beut - ler in Southwest Washington’s Third Congressional District. Dingethal, a former outreach director for U.S. Sena - tor Maria Cantwell, got 41 percent of the vote in the August top-two primary;

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