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Oregon Treasurer: Volume 111 U.S. House of Representatives Number 20 October 15, 2010 DAVID WU Portland First District: EARL BLUMENAUER Third District: KURT SCHRADER Fifth District: Labor pulling hard for Kitzhaber How close is the Oregon governor’s work proposal would use state-issued Clackamas County race this year? Close enough that the energy conservation bonds to fund ANN LININGER outcome could hinge on union member large-scale construction and energy up - County Commissioner, Position 3: turnout. grades to public schools. The race is between Democrat John “For the building trades, there’s no City of Gresham Kitzhaber, a former emergency room question,” said John Mohlis, executive KEN STINE doctor and two-term Oregon governor, director of Oregon State Building and City Council, Position 6: and Republican Chris Dudley, an in - Construction Trades Council (OS - vestment advisor and former profes - BCTC). “[Kitzhaber] has a specific Metro sional basketball player with the Port - plan to weatherize, which would put TOM HUGHES land Trailblazers. our out-of-work members back to Council President: Organized labor in Oregon is pulling work,” Mohlis said. Mohlis said build - hard for Kitzhaber, while Dudley lacks ing trades unions have had no contact Multnomah County any union endorsements, even though with Dudley, but Kitzhaber, as a former LORETTA SMITH he was once a union negotiator with the governor, is a known quantity with County Commissioner, Dist. 2: National Basketball Players Associa - Gubernatorial candidate John whom they’ve had a good working re - Kitzhaber listens to workplace Ballot Measure 26-114 : (Creates a future alternative funding option for tion. That’s partly because on a range of lationship with in the past. Support issues, from jobs to health care reform issues at a Portland town hall with Kitzhaber twice during a televised Multnomah County Library. There is no tax increase or financial impact ) to tax policy, Kitzhaber’s platform is AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. debate declared the urgency of getting Ballot Measure 26-118 (Five-Year Levy: Oregon Historical Society, much closer to what the union move - people in the trades back to work; un - Support ment has been advocating in Salem. It’s employment in construction is as high library, museum educational programs. ) ECONOMIC RECOVERY also because Kitzhaber has sought Dudley’s “Jobs First” recovery plan as 30 percent. City of Oregon City union support, and Dudley has not. is centered on reducing the personal in - Both candidates say they support Whereas Kitzhaber outlined his come tax rate on capital gains, and in - building a new I-5 bridge over the Co - KATHY ROTH City Commissioner, Position 1: views in a half-hour-long interview with creasing tax deductions for businesses lumbia River. Kitzhaber said one of the the Labor Press, the Dudley campaign that make new capital investments. By first calls he’ll make, if elected, is to City of Portland failed to respond to an interview request. contrast, Kitzhaber’s main back-to- (Turn to Page 2) Support Ballot Measure 26-108 (Voter-Owned Elections ) Washington County ATU balks at Tri-Met plan to impose contract In the months-long contract wrangle “impose” their final offer when bar - month for employee-only coverage. GREG MALINOWSKI County Commissioner, District 2: between TriMet and Amalgamated gaining breaks down, but a new law Kaiser will go from $1,559 to $1,605 a GREG MECKLEM Transit Union Local 757, a new wrin - covering transit agencies requires that month for family coverage, and from County Commissioner, District 4: kle appeared Sept. 28. While Local 757 contracts be decided by an arbitrator if $519 to $535 a month for employee- officers were away attending the con - the two sides can’t agree. The two sides only coverage. Thus, under McFar - vention of their international union, declared impasse in July and were on lane’s directive, TriMet would require SUZANNE BONAMICI RICHARD DEVLIN TriMet General Manager Neil McFar - the way to arbitration. union members to pay out of pocket Dist. 17 - Dist. 19 - lane sent a letter to union members an - “We believe they have to keep things $16 to $226 a month to keep the same MARTHA SCHRADER CHIP SHIELDS Dist. 20 - Dist. 22 - nouncing that the transit agency will status quo until the mediator makes a coverage. As an alternative, TriMet is ROD MONROE BRENT BARTON Dist. 24 - Dist. 26 - unilaterally freeze wages as of Decem - decision,” Hunt said. proposing no-premium-increase cover - ber and require employees to start pay - Under the previous contract, which age that contains deductibles and bene - OREGON H OUSE OF R EPRESENTATIVES ing part of their health insurance premi - expired Nov. 30, 2009, members got fit reductions. TOBIAS READ JEFF BARKER KATIE RILEY ums as of Jan. 1 — without the annual cost-of-living increases of 3 to 5 TriMet’s health insurance costs are Dist. 27 - Dist. 28 - Dist. 29 - agreement of, and over the objections percent based on the Consumer Price exceptionally high, Hunt said, but that DOUG AINGE BRAD WITT MARGARET DOHERTY Dist. 30 - Dist. 31 - Dist. 35 - Dist. 36 - of the union. Index, and TriMet paid 100 percent of has partly to do with the real chronic MARY NOLAN WILL RASMUSSEN CHRIS GARRETT DAVE Dist. 37 - Dist. 38 - Dist. 40 - That’s illegal, retorted Local 757 health insurance costs. Local 757 mem - health issues that bus operators face. HUNT CAROLYN TOMEI JULES BAILEY Dist. 41 - Dist. 42 - President Jon Hunt in a letter to mem - bers can choose either a traditional in - Like truck-driving, it’s a sedentary job LEW FREDERICK Dist. 43 - Dist. 44 - Dist. 45 - Dist. bers from the road. demnity plan with Regence Blue Cross that comes with occupational hazards BEN CANNON JEFFERSON SMITH MIKE SCHAUFLER “We believe they are misinterpreting Blue Shield, or membership in Kaiser like constant vibration, which causes 46 - Dist. 47 - Dist. 48 - Dist. 49 - NICK KAHL GREG MATTHEWS CHERYL MYERS the contract and binding arbitration Permanente, an HMO. Both are going musculo-skeletal problems. And bus Dist. 50 - Dist. 51 - law,” Hunt told the Labor Press. up in cost Jan. 1. Regence will rise from drivers have many more stress-related Oregon’s public employee collective $2,235 to $2,461 a month for family illnesses than other kinds of drivers be - (Authorized and paid for by the Northwest Oregon Labor Council 1125 SE Madison St., Portland, OR 97214) bargaining law does allow employers to coverage, and from $794 to $873 a (Turn to Page 5) OCT. 15, 2010 :NWLP 10/12/10 10:03 AM Page 2

Oregon Labor Employment Relations Association ...Kitzhaber endorsed by most unions in Oregon Conference, Reception/Awards, (From Page 1) spend more money on higher education lature. There’s no equivalent information Annual Meeting — and put away 3 percent of its rev - To cushion against future state on Dudley’s positions. Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire — to enues for a “rainy day.” How he would budget shortfalls, Kitzhaber thinks the “We don’t know where he stands on November 10, 2010 see how they can get the project off the manage to cut taxes, increase spending state should not issue “kicker” tax re - the issues,” said Oregon AFL-CIO Pres - World Trade Center ground quickly. and not borrow money is not explained. funds until a rainy day fund is filled. ident Tom Chamberlain. “That’s be - 121 SW Salmon Street, Portland, OR Both candidates also oppose build - He also proposes to privatize liquor Kitzhaber’s positions match labor’s cause he’s never given us the time of The Conference (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) ing a new casino in the Columbia sales, and use alcohol taxes to fund on a number of issues that have come day.” Unlike past Republican candi - Gorge, a project the building trades “The Good, The Bad, and schools; Kitzhaber opposes that idea. up in recent ballot measures and leg - dates, Dudley never asked for union have supported. Kitzhaber said he’s The Barely Satisfactory” Kitzhaber wants a capital gains tax islative sessions. He said he supports the support, declined to fill out question - been candid with trades unions about Employee and Management Performance in the Workplace cut too, but not an across-the-board one establishment of a paid family leave naires, and didn’t respond when unions why. Speaker, author and employment attorney as Dudley is advocating. Kitzhaber pro - benefit; favors Buy America and Buy like the International Association of Fire “I think being consistent is a value Jathan Janove is presenting an interactive poses that proceeds from the sale of an Oregon requirements for state pur - Fighters — which backs Republicans that’s important,” Kitzhaber told the La - workshop based on his popular book Oregon business not be taxed if they’re chases; defends the requirement to pay more often than most unions — invited bor Press. “I negotiated the contracts “MANAGING TO STAY OUT OF COURT - How to used to buy another Oregon business prevailing wage on public construction him to discuss their issues. with the sovereign Native American Avoid the 8 Deadly Sins of Mismanagement.” within a few years — not unlike the projects; and would support minimum “Kitzhaber, on other hand, has a tribes when I was governor, and we had Afternoon workshops feature union and man - way home sale proceeds aren’t taxed if nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals, as pretty deep history running the state, a couple of provisions: one casino per agement professionals covering topics includ - they’re used to purchase another home. long as the ratios are based on the qual - and dealing with unions, in good times tribe, and no casinos on after-acquired ing: Performance Management” with person - As governor, Kitzhaber required a ity of patient care. He doesn’t support and bad,” Chamberlain said. “It hasn’t land.” nel from Kaiser; “Employee Involvement in biennial tax expenditure report that tal - basing teacher pay on student test been all hearts and flowers. But John Decision Making” featuring Partners In Con - lied the dollar value of each tax break, scores. And he does not foresee taking has plan to move the state forward with HEALTH CARE struction Cooperation; “Joint Training” with and he told the Labor Press he’s in favor part in a regional cap-and-trade pro - jobs, and that’s the crux of this elec - On health care, Kitzhaber wants to speakers from PGE, and the “OHSU Labor Man - of “sunsetting” tax breaks unless they’re gram for regulating greenhouse gas tion.” reform delivery and rein in costs. agement Center.” periodically reauthorized by the Legis - emissions. For registration information, contact Kitzhaber is the architect of the Oregon Bill Rector at 503-939-3421 or Health Plan, which attempts to stretch email [email protected] federal Medicaid dollars to cover more low-income Oregonians. Now he pro - Unions fight Washington ballot measure to poses to pool 800,000 Oregonians — Medicaid recipients and public employ - ees and their dependents — into one de - privatize state’s workers’ compensation system livery mechanism, which would save There’s a lot at stake on the Wash - affiliated unions can be a formidable state insurance companies and by the money by focusing on prevention and ington ballot this year, and the Wash - force politically. anti-union Building Industry Associa - wellness and efficient management of ington State Labor Council — the For WSLC, the absolute top priori - tion of Washington. The measure asks chronic health conditions. statewide body of the AFL-CIO — is ties are returning Patty Murray to the voters to privatize Washington’s work - working to get the word out about ballot U.S. Senate, and defeating I-1082 — a ers’ compensation system, which pays PUBLIC SERVICES measures that will impact workers. ballot initiative that would privatize workers’ medical bills and lost wages On fiscal policy, Dudley says he Washington is the fourth most Washington’s workers’ compensation when they are injured on the job. The wants tax cuts for businesses and in - unionized state in the country. The system. system is currently run by the state La - vestors, but he says the state should roughly 400,000 members of WSLC- Initiative 1082 is funded by out-of- (Turn to Page 8)

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From Oregon State Building Trades Council Construction union icon Shiprack retires after 25 years Bob Shiprack, an icon of Oregon later as a member of the powerful Ways tus (1987 session); reforming the work - construction unions, retired Oct. 1 as and Means Committee, where he got a ers’ compensation system (1990 ses - executive secretary of the Oregon State valuable education in the budget sion); require paying the highest pre - Building and Construction Trades process and resources. vailing wage on public projects that mix Council. With the recession lingering, the state and federal dollars (2005 session); Shiprack’s career started in 1974 as state building trades council found itself and require prevailing wage laws on an apprentice in International Brother - in tough financial straits. It was 1984, public-private projects (2007 session). hood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Lo - and Bill Belanger of Bricklayers Local Throughout his career, Shiprack has cal 48. His introduction to organized la - 1 had succeeded longtime leader Bob served on numerous governor-ap - bor, however came much sooner than Stanfill, who retired. Shiprack had pointed advisory committees involving that as his father, Ray, was business come into the union office as president employment, health and safety, and rev - manager of Cement Masons Local 555 at the same time Belanger was elected. enue. He will retain his seat on the En - and later an international rep. But less than two years later the council ergy Facility Siting Council for another “I grew up in the construction indus - couldn’t afford to keep a full-time year, but left as co-chair of the Workers try,” said Shiprack, who worked on con - leader. Belanger returned to his trade Compensation Management-Labor Ad - crete crews as a member of the Labor - and Shiprack agreed to handle the day- visory Committee this month. ers Union while in college. to-day business of the organization un - In reflection on his career, Shiprack Shiprack, 60, graduated from Mar - til the next election in 1987. said the building trades has improved its shall High School in Southeast Portland “I had some pay coming from the numbers, “because we became smarter. and played offensive tackle for the Legislature, so I was able to do the job We are more progressive in our rela - Portland State Vikings football team un - for stipends,” Shiprack said. tionships with contractors, business der Coach Don Read. He graduated The economy eventually turned leaders and politicians. More than any - with a bachelors degree in social sci - Bob Shiprack (left) clowns around with his successor John Mohlis at his last around, and the Building Trades — un - thing else is the quality of today’s work, ences. building trades meeting. Shiprack retired Oct. 1 after 25 years as executive der Shiprack’s leadership — became a which is based on the excellent training With diploma in hand, Shiprack re - secretary of the Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council. powerful political force in Oregon. of union apprenticeship programs and turned to concrete work. “I could make As a lawmaker and union leader, an ingrained work ethic.” more money in construction than I ship qualities and asked him to serve on cession. “I was out of work for a full Shiprack influenced countless bills and Shiprack said he likely will do some could in any job related to college,” he a health care committee as a representa - year,” he said. project labor agreements that bettered consulting work in retirement, prima - said. tive of the younger members of the lo - It was about that time that he was re - the lives of construction workers. Along rily on clean energy and solar. He said Throughout his school years, Ship- cal. Later, while still an apprentice, cruited by IBEW union brother Glenn the way he also established a reputation he has no plans to run for elected office rack would volunteer with his father on Shiprack was appointed to a committee Otto, a Democratic state representative as a man who, despite his football or to lobby. political projects sponsored by the Ore - that became the founding members of from Troutdale, to run for the Oregon player physique, would use brains over Shiprack is married to Judy (Bau - gon AFL-CIO. It was while volunteer - the local’s political action committee House of Representatives in the freshly- brawn to get the job done. man), a former state legislator who now ing that Shiprack met Lloyd Knutson, a (PAC). Additionally, Shiprack was sent redistricted District 23 in Clackamas He says he is most proud of bills he serves on the Multnomah County member of IBEW Local 48 and then to the OSBCTC convention as a dele - County (Beavercreek). helped craft that allow apprentices to Board of Commissioners. He has three political coordinator for the Oregon gate, and at his first convention he was Shiprack was intrigued. He ran and collect unemployment insurance while adult children from a previous mar - AFL-CIO. Shiprack told Knutson of his elected conductor — a first for an ap - was elected to the seat in 1982. going to school (1987 session); draw riage. Ben is an apprentice electrician, interest in becoming an electrician. He prentice. He served six terms — three as chair clearer direction for state agencies when Julie is a registered nurse, and Jennifer had taken four years of electronics in Shiprack recalled a major rift at his of the House Labor Committee, and determining independent contractor sta - works in public relations. high school and he enjoyed the con - local over the issue of covering preg - struction trades. Knutson steered him to nancies in health insurance plans. His the electricians apprenticeship program. first child was born in 1978, and at that Shiprack aced the aptitude test and be - time, health insurance didn’t cover fore he knew it was registered in the ap - pregnancy. “It was the older guys vs. the prenticeship training program. younger guys,” Shiprack recollected. Shiprack was involved with the “Thank goodness, Congress changed union from the outset. While still an ap - the law requiring coverage.” prentice, then-Local 48 Business Man - Shiprack logged steady hours doing ager Art Bauder recognized his leader - residential work until the 1981-82 re -

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Single mom, former waitress to lead SEIU Local 503 Fourteen years ago, Heather fish out of water in the business pro - she became statewide field director. of her union, from organizing non-union nursing Conroy was waiting tables at a gram at Pennsylvania State Univer - At SEIU, Conroy helped workers at non-profit homes to bargaining state worker contracts to ad - diner in Northwest Portland. On sity. The first in her family to go to Parry Center for Children win a 59-day strike. She vancing the economic program of the national Nov. 12, she’ll take the reins of college, Conroy majored in business, helped custodians at Portland Public Schools re - union. Oregon’s second-largest union. not knowing what else to do. But she group when the Oregon Supreme Court declared “This economic crisis is going to be a catalyst In mail ballots counted Sept. soon felt unhappy with that choice. that their jobs had been illegally privatized. As state for change,” Conroy said. Some want to use the 29, Conroy won a majority in a “At a gut level, I knew I didn’t be - worker contracts came up for renewal, she put to - crisis to take away retirement security for workers, three-way race for executive di - long there,” Conroy said. Some gether field campaigns to support bargaining. That privatize the public sector and de-unionize the pri - rector of 45,000-member Serv - things she was taught went against included on-the-job actions, and community sup - vate sector, Conroy said, so it’s vitally important ice Employees International her values, Conroy said. A class in port events like the union’s massive 2006 march that the labor movement come together to take up Union (SEIU) Local 503. She industrial psychology, for example, on Salem. She also worked to recruit union mem - the mantle of change. succeeds Leslie Frane, who left taught students to design work bers for the SEIU-backed political campaigns, like “We need to rein in the greed and recklessness in August to head the national spaces that keep workers apart. the fight to pass Measures 66 and 67, which raised that got us into this situation, and that allows for union’s public sector division. Conroy thought of dropping out. taxes on rich individuals and large corporations. such a disparate distribution of wealth in this Local 503 represents public Then she met professor Frieda Now her job will be to coordinate all the work country.” HEATHER CONROY employees, in-home care Rozen, an old-time unionist providers, and nursing home workers. Conroy, a from the New York textile industry. Rozen 38-year-old single mom, will be responsible for di - introduced Conroy to Penn State’s labor recting a staff of 120. studies program, and set her up with in - Conroy was born and raised near Pittsburgh in ternships that helped her stay in school. a working class Catholic family, her father and un - Conroy left Penn State in 1994 with a cles belonging to Asbestos Workers Local 2. Her degree in labor relations … and began brother also followed the trade. waiting tables. Living on tips and a $2.13- At one time, asbestos was widely used as a an-hour minimum wage, she saved to buy flame-resistant and sound-proof insulator. But as - a car and move to Oregon, where a child - bestos fibers entered the lungs of workers who hood friend was also working as a restau - handled it, and led to degenerative and fatal lung rant server. Conroy’s friend told her that diseases. Employers knew, yet continued to expose unlike Pennsylvania, Oregon doesn’t let workers. Growing up, people Conroy knew were employers count tips as part of their obli - dying of asbestos-related lung diseases. gation to pay the minimum wage. Conroy “It was all around us, almost as if it was a fam - got a job at Fuller’s, a Northwest Portland ily gene,” Conroy recalls. diner. Then in 1996, she threw herself into Asbestos-related lung diseases claimed her gathering signatures for a ballot measure great-grandmother, and later her grandmother — to raise Oregon’s minimum wage. She exposed by washing their husbands’ and sons’ joined Portland Jobs With Justice. She clothes. campaigned against anti-union ballot Conroy’s working class upbringing made her a measures sponsored by Bill Sizemore. Then she found temporary work as a union organizer at United Food & Com - mercial Workers Local 555, where she Change to Win helped workers unionize at nonunion Fred Meyer locations — and learned how hard taps Hansen, Hoffa it is for workers to unionize in America. She was shaken when, at a nonunion Fred WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Change To Win Meyer in Columbia County, a pro-union executive board on Sept. 30 elected United Food worker she’d worked with was fired. and Commercial Workers (UFCW) President Joe “I knew union organizing was about Hansen as the labor federation’s new chair and people putting their livelihoods at stake Teamsters President James Hoffa as secretary- so they can make a change in their lives,” treasurer. Hansen succeeds founding chair Anna Conroy said. But seeing an employer ac - Burger, who resigned both that post and her sec - tually fire a worker took that notion from retary-treasurer’s position at Service Employees rhetoric to reality, Conroy said. It gave her International Union. Hoffa succeeds Edgar Rom - a sense of how much workers risk to or - ney, whose union, UNITE HERE, rejoined the ganize a union. AFL-CIO. When the UFCW job ended, Conroy Change To Win now includes SEIU, Teamsters, went to work for SEIU Local 503 as an UFCW, and United Farm Workers. The Laborers internal organizer. That was Union left Oct. 1 to rejoin the AFL-CIO and the 1997. In 2001, a year after Carpenters Union departed more than a year ago giving birth to a daughter, she and operates independently. Change to Win has 5.5 was promoted to Portland million members, primarily in the service sector. field coordinator. In 2005, Zachary Zabinsky • Social Security • SSI - Disability Claims Personal Attention To Every Case Working For Disability Rights Since 1983 NO FEE WITHOUT RECOVERY 621 SW Morrison, Portland 503-223-8517

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Labor Roundtable of SW Washington Mohlis, Riggs 1BJE1PMJUJDBM"EWFSUJTFNFOU1BJE1PMJUJDBM"EWFSUJTFNFOU bestows honors at annual banquet sworn into VANCOUVER, Wash. —The Labor rector for the Association of Western Paul believes in: Roundtable of Southwest Washington Pulp and Paper Workers, took home leadership posts held its 20th annual awards banquet “Union Member of the Year.” t'JTDBMDPOTFSWBUJWFQPMJDJFT Oct. 1 at the Vancouver Hilton Hotel Glenn Shuck, retired executive di - John Mohlis was sworn in as exec - t1SJPSJUJ[FTQFOEJOH and Convention Center. rector of Labor’s Community Service utive secretary of the Oregon State Fire Fighters Local 452 was named Agency, received a Lifetime Achieve - Building and Construction Trade t#VTJOFTTGSJFOEMZQPMJDJFT “Local Union of the Year.” ment Award. Council. He succeeds Bob Shiprack, UPIFMQCVTJOFTTFTHSPX Shannon Walker, a member of Democratic Party activists Pete who retired. BOEBEEKPCT United Food and Commercial Workers Aller and Marsha Manning received Mohlis comes from the Columbia- Local 555 and president of the South - “Community Service” awards and a Pacific Building and Construction t1SPUFDUJOHQSPQFSUZSJHIUT west Washington Central Labor Coun - “Special Appreciation” award was pre - Trades Council, where he has been cil was named “Union Leader of the sented to the Northwest Labor Press, executive secretary treasurer since Endorsed by Year.” which this year celebrated its 110th an - 2005. Clackamas County Fire Fighters Local 1159 Harold Abbe, a retired political di - niversary. Mohlis began his career as an ap - prentice bricklayer in Montana at Lo - Clackamas County Police O cers Association cal 5. Later in his career, he served as Rob Wheeler, Mayor Happy Valley business manager for Bricklayers Lo - Larry Sowa, former County Commissioner ...ATU rails against TriMet cal 1 from 1994 to 2005. [email protected] www.electpaulsavas.com their dependents. Hunt said union mem - (From Page 1) Paul Riggs of International Broth - 503. 312. 1379 bers have made past compromises on cause of their contact with the public, erhood of Electrical Workers Local 48 Paid by ElectPaulSavas tight schedules, and navigating through pay increases to keep that benefit, and was elected to finish out the executive heavy urban traffic. won’t just give it away. secretary term at the Columbia-Pa - TriMet’s insurance costs are also Hunt said Local 757 will mount a le - cific Building and Construction higher than most because employees gal challenge to the changes. Trades Council that expires in De - continue to have what used to be a stan - cember 2011. Riggs also was elected dard benefit — employer-paid health delegate to the Washington State insurance that covers employees and Building and Construction Trades Council. TRAN Sept. 2 that a vote took place Additionally, Willy Myers of Sheet ATU’s Jennings now and Local 757 Executive Board mem - Metal Workers Local 16 was elected ber Roy Jennings, a C-TRAN em - president. He succeeds Jim Pauly of SIONER on C-TRAN board OMMIS ployee, was appointed to the board po - Iron Workers Local 29. Pauly was rec - for COUNTY C Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) sition. The law says the employee ognized for his five years of service. Matt Eleazer of Bricklayers Local 1 Local 757 has a seat at the table at C- representative is to be selected by ma - PO Box 68240 Oak Grove, OR 97268 TRAN, Clark County’s transit agency. jority vote of the labor organizations was elected vice president and Jeff Under a Washington state law passed representing public employees of the Brooke of Painters and Allied Trades last year, transit district boards must add agency. C-TRAN drivers are repre - District Council 5 was elected trustee . 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Official FIRE FIGHTERS 452 LANE COUNTY MID -C OLUMBIA SOUTHERN OREGON Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 2807 ABOR OUNCIL ABOR OUNCIL ENTRAL ABOR OUNCIL NW Fruit Valley Rd., Vancouver, Wash. L C L C C L C Delegates meet 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, at 1116 Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, 3313 W. 2nd, Delegates meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Labor South A St., Springfield. The Dalles. Temple, 4480 Rogue Valley Hwy. #3, Central Point. Notices GLASS WORKERS 740 Executive Board members meet 5 p.m. Thursday, LANE , C OOS , C URRY & SOUTHWESTERN OREGON Nov. 4, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. MULTNOMAH COUNTY AUTO MECHANICS 1005 Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. DOUGLAS BUILDING TRADES CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL 4, at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. EMPLOYEES 88 Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, preceded Eugene area members meet 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, at Delegates meet at noon Wednesday, Oct. 27, at the Delegates meet 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, at the Bay by a 9 a.m. shop stewards’ training session. Stewards Best Western Grand Manor Inn, 971 Kruse Way, Spring - Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Parkway, General membership meets 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. Area Labor Center, 3427 Ash, North Bend. must attend steward meeting to be compensated. field. Springfield. 20, preceded by a 6 p.m. stewards’ meeting. PLEASE NOTE: A second reading and vote to pro - Salem area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at Executive Board meets 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3. pose bylaws change will be held at this meeting. Candalaria Terrace, Suite 204, 2659 Commercial St. SE, Meetings are at 6025 E. Burnside, Portland. SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON Executive Board meets 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. Salem. LINN -B ENTON -L INCOLN 17. LABOR COUNCIL All meetings are at 3645 SE 32nd Ave., Portland. LABOR COUNCIL Delegates meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, preceded by PLEASE NOTE: Rochelle Conrad will be available INSULATORS 36 Delegates meet 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, preceded NORTHWEST OREGON an Executive Board meeting, at the ILWU Local 4 Hall, from 8 a.m. to noon during the Regular Lodge meeting to Executive Board meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10. by a 6:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 1400 Salem LABOR COUNCIL 1205 Ingalls St., Vancouver, Wash. answer any questions you Oct. have about Health and Members meet 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12. Ave., Albany. Welfare and Pension plans. Meetings are at 11145 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Delegates meet 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, at IBEW Lo - cal 48 Hall, 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland. TRANSIT 757 LINOLEUM LAYERS 1236 OILERMAKERS Vancouver members meet 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17 at B 500 IRON WORKERS 29 Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. the Laborers Hall, 2121 NE Andresen, Vancouver, Wash - embers meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, at 2515 NE PAINTERS & D RYWALL M Members meet 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 4, preceded by 21, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. PLEASE ington. Columbia Blvd., Portland. a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 11620 NE NOTE DATE CHANGE. FINISHERS 10 Tillamook members meet 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, at Ainsworth Cir., #200, Portland. Portland Executive Board meets 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 212 Main Street, next door to Beach Pancake House in 1, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Members meet 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 11105 Tillamook. BRICKLAYERS AND ALLIED PLEASE NOTE: The following meeting is “SPE - NE Sandy Blvd. 2nd Floor, Portland. AMR Northwest Josephine County, Bend Area Tran - CIAL CALL” for a vote to continue the mileage ex - sit, LAMAR Advertising and Valley Transit - See your li - CRAFTWORKERS 1 IRON WORKERS tended “Free Zone” and to vote to amend the contract to aison officers. Members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 12812 NE adopt the “Pension Rehabilitation Plan.” PLASTERERS 82 PLEASE NOTE: ATU members are invited to at - Marx St., Portland. SHOPMEN 516 Portland area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. Members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 12812 tend any of the above-listed meetings. 18, at 11105 NE Sandy Blvd., Portland. Please note date NE Marx St., Portland. Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, at 11620 NE change due to Thanksgiving holiday. CEMENT MASONS 555 Ainsworth Cir., #300, Portland. UNITED ASSOCIATION 290 ROOFERS & W ATERPROOFERS Portland area members meet 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at 12812 NE MACHINISTS 63 Marx St., Portland. 15, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tualatin. LABOR ROUNDTABLE OF Executive Board meets 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10. 49 Astoria area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, Members meet 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, preceded Executive Board meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4. at the Astoria Labor Temple, 926 Duane, Astoria. ENTRAL REGON ABOR SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON by a 9 a.m. stewards’ meeting. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11. Bend area members meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, C O L Meetings are at 3645 SE 32nd Ave., Portland. at the Local 290 Training Center, 2161 SW First, Red - Delegates meet 8 a.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at HomeTown Meetings are at 5032 SE 26th Ave., Portland. (Phone: mond. COUNCIL Buffet, 7809-B Vancouver Plaza Dr., Vancouver, Wash. 503 232-4807) Brookings area members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Delegates meet 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, at UA 290 MACHINISTS 1432 Oct. 26, at Curry County Search and Rescue, 517 Rail - Training Center, 2161 SE 1st St., Redmond. LABORERS 320 Swing and graveyard shift members meet at noon SALEM BCTC road St., Brookings. Wednesday, Nov. 10. Coos Bay area members meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. Members meet 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, at Joe Edgar Delegates meet 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, at the Regular membership meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, 19, at the Coos Bay Training Center, 2nd & Kruse, Coos COLUMBIA -P ACIFIC Hall, Teamsters’ Complex, 1850 NE 162nd Ave., Port - IBEW 280 Training Center, 33309 Hwy 99E, Tangent. Nov. 10. Bay. land. BUILDING TRADES Shop stewards training session 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. Eugene area members meet 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16. SHEET METAL WORKERS 16 18, at the Springfield Training Center, 2861 Pierce Park - Delegates meet 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays, Oct. 19, Oct. 26 Meetings are at 3645 SE 32nd Ave., Portland. way, Springfield. and Nov. 2, in Kirkland Union Manor II, 3535 SE 86th, LABORERS 483 Coos Bay area members meet 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. Klamath Falls area members meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Portland. 21, at Abby’s Pizza, 997 First St., Coos Bay. Oct. 19, at 4816 S. 6th St., Klamath Falls. MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES MARION POLK YAMHILL Portland area VOC meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, Medford area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. Members meet 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the Mu - at the Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., 21, at 950 Industrial Circle, White City. ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 sicians Hall, 325 NE 20th Ave., Portland. LABOR COUNCIL Portland. Roseburg area members meet 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. Portland members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Bylaws Committee meets 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, 21, at 742 Roberts, Roseburg. Delegates meet 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, preceded by a Sheet Metal Training Center, 2379 NE 178th Ave., Port - in the Executive Boardroom. Salem area members meet 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, 6:30 Executive Board meeting, at 2110 State St., Salem. land. Marine Unit meets 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, in the at 1810 Hawthorne Ave. NE, Salem. Medford area members meet 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. Meeting Hall. LABORERS /V ANCOUVER 335 The Dalles area members meet 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, at Wild River Pizza, 2684 N. Pacific Hwy., Medford. General Membership Meeting meets 6:30 p.m. 19, at the United Steelworkers Local 9170 Union Hall, Members meet 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, preceded by a METAL TRADES COUNCIL Eugene area members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, The Dalles. Wednesday, Oct. 27, in the Meeting Hall. Doors open at :15 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at the Vancouver La - 6 Delegates meet 5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26. at the Local 16 Hall, 4748 Franklin Blvd., Eugene. Humboldt-Del Norte Co. area members 6 p.m. Tues - 5:30 p.m. for sandwiches. bor Center, 2212 NE Andresen Rd., Vanc., Wash. Your Business Manager Meeting, Saturday, Oct. 30, Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11. day, Oct. 19, at the Eureka Training Center, 634 Califor - in the Meeting Hall. Call Kierstan at 503-889-3662 for Meetings are at the IBEW Local 48 Hall, 15937 NE nia St. Eureka, CA. an appointment. Airport Way, Portland. Executive Board meets 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Nov. 3 and Nov. 17, in the Executive Boardroom. UNITED STEELWORKERS 1097 Electrical Workers Minority Caucus meets 5 p.m. Members meet 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, preceded Tuesday, Nov. 9, in the Executive Boardroom. by a 3 p.m. Executive Board meeting and 6:45 p.m. Sound and Communication Unit meets 6 p.m. Retiree Meeting Notices Wednesday, Nov. 3, preceded by a 5:45 p.m. Executive Wednesday, Nov. 10, in the Meeting Hall. Board meeting, in the union office building, Westport. Residential Unit meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, in the Dispatch Lobby. Vancouver Meeting, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10, at ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED Oct. 21, at Izzy’s Pizza & Buffet, 1307 room, at 1125 SE Madison, #103-A, Round Table Pizza, 5016 NE Thurston, Vancouver. Coast Unit meets 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, at Astoria AMERICANS OREGON CHAPTER NE 102nd Ave. & Halsey, Portland. Portland. Congress could vote on Labor Temple, 926 Duane St., Astoria. Retirees meet 10 a.m. Thursday, Wasco Unit meets 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, at North - EFCA before year’s end ern Wasco PUD, 2345 River Road, The Dalles. Oct. 28, at Westmoreland Union INSULATORS 36 OREGON AFSCME Meetings are at 15937 NE Airport Way, Portland, un - Manor, 6404 SE 23rd, Portland. Retirees meet for breakfast 9 a.m. Retirees meet 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. WASHINGTON, D.C. — AFL- less otherwise noted. CIO President Richard Trumka told re - DEATH ASSESSMENT: The October 2010 assess - Executive Board meets 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, at the Dockside 19, at the AFSCME office, 6025 E. ment is $1.50. Effective 1/1/10, the Death Assessments Thursday, Nov. 11, in the Northwest Restaurant, 2047 NW Front Ave., Burnside, Portland. Call Michael porters last week that there could be a are $1.50 per month per Active member. Oregon Labor Council board room, at Portland. Arken for information at 1-800-521- vote on the Employee Free Choice Act The following deaths were reported: No. 2246, Darrell C. Morrow; No. 2247, William R. Sullivan; No. 2248, 1125 SE Madison, Portland. 5954 ext. 226. (EFCA) when Congress returns after Steve Panayotoff; and No. 2249, Keneth E. Ball. IRON WORKERS 29 the midterm elections. ELECTRICAL WORKERS 48 Retirees meet 12 noon Wednesday, TRANSIT UNION 757 When asked if he had received a ELECTRICAL WORKERS 280 Retirees, wives and friends meet Nov. 10, at 11620 NE Ainsworth Cir., Retirees meet 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, commitment from Democratic leaders Joint Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 9, at Home - Portland for a catered lunch. Nov. 3, at Westmoreland Union on Capitol Hill to move EFCA during 33309 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. Executive Board meets 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, town Buffet, 10542 SE Washington Manor, 6404 SE 23rd, Portland. the lame-duck session, Trumka told re - at 32969 Hwy. 99E, Tangent. St., Portland. For more information, MACHINISTS porters on a conference call to “stay Bend Unit meets 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, at the IBEW/UA Training Center, 2161 SW First St., Red - call Glenn at 503-656-0028. Retirees meet 10 a.m. Wednesday, UNITED ASSOCIATION 290 tuned.” mond. Nov. 3, at 3645 SE 32nd Ave., Port - Retirees meet 10 a.m. Thursday, “All I would say to you is stay tuned. ELECTRICAL WORKERS 280 land for a brief business meeting and Oct. 21, at 20210 SW Teton Ave., Tu - That would be my best answer to you,” ELEVATOR CONSTRUCTORS Retirees meet between 11:45 a.m. lunch at a restaurant to be determined alatin. Trumka said. 23 and noon Monday, Nov. 8, at The Old at the meeting. Rusty Pipes meet 2 p.m. Thursday, EFCA is a labor law reform bill long Members meet 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, preceded Country Buffet on Lancaster in Salem. Nov. 4, at the 290 Training Center, sought by the labor movement that by a 5:30 p.m. Executive Board meeting, at 12779 NE If you have any questions, call Don NORTHWEST OREGON LABOR Springfield. would make it easier for workers to Whitaker Way, Portland Ball at 541-327-3388. RETIREES COUNCIL Salem area retirees meet 12 noon form a union, set timelines on bargain - Business meeting from 10 a.m. to Wednesday, Nov. 10, at Almost Home ing a first contract, and stiffen penalties IRE IGHTERS F F 1660 GLASS WORKERS 740 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 8, in the North - Restaurant, 3310 Market St., NE, for labor law violations. The bill has ma - Members meet 8 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, at 4411 SW Sunset Dr., Lake Oswego. Retirees meet 11 a.m. Thursday, west Oregon Labor Council board Salem. jority support in Congress, but has been blocked by Senate filibusters.

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‘One Nation Working Together’ rally Campaigning for good jobs with good benefits was a key theme for union leaders speaking at the mass “One Nation Working Together” rally Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C. The demonstration of nearly 200,000 was organized by more than 300 groups, ranging from the AFL-CIO and Change to Win labor federations and their affiliated unions to civil rights, womens’ rights, anti- war, and community groups. Organizers also wanted to motivate citizens for the midterm elections and as a reminder to politicians that workers represent the majority in the country. Speaking to the crowd that spread from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the World War II Memorial, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called for: “Jobs, good jobs, jobs that support families; jobs that give our young people paths of opportunity, not obstacles; jobs that allow people to retire with dignity.” Trumka pointed to the forces of “greed, the moneyed powers that put us in the economic mess we’re in today. And we’ve got a lot of work to do to repair the damage that greed did to our country.” (Photo by Bill Burke/Page One)

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...Washington ballot measures (From Page 2) the premium as a percentage of payroll. lent to other states — except that 97 That would mean higher-paid (and percent of Washingtonians wouldn’t bor and Industries (L&I) department, unionized) employees would be more have to pay any state income tax. The except that large companies like Boe - expensive to insure. measure would lower taxes for most ing are allowed to self-insure. Could private insurance companies Washingtonians: State property taxes “The insurance companies are look - offer workers’ comp insurance more would be reduced, and “business and ing at Washington state as a tremen - cheaply than the public system? Private occupation” taxes on gross receipts dous opportunity to make money,” says insurers have higher marketing, under - would be eliminated for small busi - Alex Fryer, spokesman for Vote No on writing and administrative costs, have nesses — 81 percent of Washington Initiative 1082. Liberty Mutual, the na - to pay taxes, and need to turn a profit businesses will no longer pay any B&O tion’s largest workers comp insurer, do - for shareholders and CEOs. So just to tax. The measure would raise an esti - nated $500,000 to the campaign. match L&I’s rates, they would need to mated $2.9 billion starting 2012, while The pro-1082 campaign is using save money — I-1082 opponents say giving $393 million in property tax re - ideological arguments about “govern - — by delaying and denying claims. lief; and the net increase would fund ment monopoly” and scary claims that Washington’s insurance commissioner education and health care. Finally, in workers’ comp rates are high and are has estimated that workers comp insur - answer to fears that the tax might later killing jobs. An online “rap” video ance rates would go up, not down, if I- be extended to the less-well-off, the Educators’ Workshop on apprenticeship shows Labor and Industries stuffing 1082 passes. measure requires a public vote for any money in a pocket labeled “union,” and “This is a wholesale remake of what future change to the income tax. NECA-IBEW Training Director Rod Belisle (left) shows Chuck Thurber, a the pro-1082 campaign says in its Vot - happens to workers injured on the job,” Measures WSLC is opposing: vocational education teacher from Forest Grove High School, how to bend ers’ Pamphlet statement that “union says Fryer. “I don’t believe a special in - • Initiative 1053, authored by peren - electrical conduit at the first-ever “Educators’ Workshop” held Oct. 8 at the bosses” are against the initiative be - terest backed initiative is the right way nial ballot measure activist Tim Ey - electricians’ training center in Northeast Portland. Eighty-five high school cause “they are terrified to lose their to make changes to the system.” man, would require a two-thirds major - teachers and career counselors from 35 schools received hands-on exposure political and financial grip” on the While its top focus is defeating I- ity for the Legislature to raise taxes to the different career opportunities in the construction trades. Educators also workers’ comp system. Such anti-union 1082, WSLC is opposing four other without voter approval. toured several training centers located in Northeast Portland, and each venom gives a pretty good picture of ballot measures, and supporting two. • Initiatives 1100 and 1105 would received a “toolbox” with information about every apprenticeship program in the ideology of the measure’s backers, So its message to union members is, privatize and deregulate liquor sales. the state. “There is a desire on the part of educators to learn more about what but is more absurd than offensive: “Two for you.” The two measures it’s All state liquor stores would be closed, apprenticship is, and there is a desire among apprenticeship coordinators to Washington’s union movement has no endorsing are Referral 52 and Initiative eliminating $350 million a year in rev - reach out to students to let them know what apprenticeship is,” said John financial ties or any direct financial 1098. enue that funds education and public Nelsen, workforce development coordinator at the NECA-IBEW Training stake in Washington’s public workers’ • Referral 52 would create an esti - safety, and every gas station and con - Center. For many students graduating from high school, the perception is comp system. But, it has been steadfast mated 30,000 new construction jobs venience store that currently sells beer “college or nothing,” Nelsen said. “We’re here to show that this is a serious in fighting attempts to erode workers’ doing energy efficiency upgrades to could sell liquor. United Food and institution of higher learning.” comp, which is a benefit that Washing - public schools. Commercial Workers, in particular, has ton workers have had since 1911. • Initiative 1098 would set up, for come out against these two. The way it’s written, I-1082 would the first time ever, a state income tax — • Initiative 1107, funded by the harm union workers in particular. but only for the top 3 percent of in - American Beverage Association, Workers’ comp premiums are currently comes: the estimated 38,400 taxpayers would end a new sales tax on candy, computed as a charge per hour worked, with “adjusted gross income”over and repeal a temporary 2-cents-per-can since the more hours worked, the more $200,000 for individuals or $400,000 sales tax on soda and a temporary sales a worker is exposed to hazard. I-1082 for joint-filers. Income over that would tax on bottled water. Passage would re - would change that, instead computing be taxed at up to 9 percent — equiva - duce state revenue by $300 million. Southwest Washington Electricians PAC #48

HAS ENDORSED THE FOLLOWING CANDIDATES AND BALLOT MEASURES IN THE NOV . 2 WASHINGTON GENERAL ELECTION : U.S. Senate Clark County Patty MURRAY Commission - Steve STUART , District 3 U.S. House County Assessor — Janet SEEKINS Denny HECK , 3rd District County Prosecutor — Tony GOLIK State Supreme Court County Clerk — Sherry PARKER Barbara MADSEN , Position 5 County Treasurer—Doug LASHER Charlie WIGGINS , Position 6 County Sheriff—Timothy SHOTWELL City of Vancouver Court of Appeals Judge City Council - Bart HANSEN , Position 4 Jill JOHANSON Statewide Ballot Measures to be voted Nov. 2 Washington House PAC #48 SUPPORTS: Tim PROBST , District 17, Pos. 1 • Referendum 52, Jobs Act of 2010 for Healthy Schools • Initiative 1098 , establish a high-earners state income tax Monica STONIER , Dist. 17, Pos. 2 and reducing other taxes Dennis KAMPE , District 18, Pos.1 PAC #48 OPPOSES: • Initiative 1053, Tim Eyman's 2/3 supermajority require - Jim JACKS , District 49, Pos. 1 ment on budget issues Jim MOELLER , District 49, Pos. 2 • Initiative 1082, privatizing workers’ comp • Initiative 1086, repealing a temporary excise tax on beer • Initiative 1100, privatizing state liquor stores

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bor Press. The Northwest Labor Press was U.S. House resolution House Resolution 1627 recognizes founded on Labor Day 1900 and has recognizes Labor Press the Northwest Labor Press as “a na - published without interruption for the 21 tional model for quality, in-depth re - past 110 years. Local Motion Oregon Congressman David Wu porting on labor issues” and “instru - HR 1627 was referred to the House mental in providing news and (D-1st District), introduced a resolution Committee on Oversight and Govern - September 2010 in the U.S. House of Representatives information in print and online to ment Reform. It has one co-sponsor, Union certifications and decertifications in Oregon and Southwest recognizing the 110th anniversary of workers and retirees around the Pacific U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-3rd Washington, as reported by the National Labor Relations Board and the Oregon Labor Press Publishing Northwest that goes unreported by District). the Oregon Employment Relations Board Company, owner of the Northwest La - other media.” Recognition elections Name of employer Results: Union Union Date Name of union Location Yes No Fred Meyer Jewelers 31 9/7 UFCW Local 555 Hillsboro Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office 10 5 9/27 Deschutes Cty. DAs Assn. Bend Requests for recognition election Name of employer Location Name of union Number of employees

Enterprise Holdings (decertification) Tualatin Teamsters Local 305 60 First Student (drivers) Woodburn Teamsters Local 324 44

First Student (maintenance) Woodburn Teamsters Local 324 3 Blachly-Lane Electrical Cooperative Eugene International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 659 13

Transit Union delegates pick Hanley over Oregonian Ron Heintzman ORLANDO — At a Sept. 27-30 convention in Orlando, Florida, delegates chose Larry Hanley over Ron Heintzman as international president of Amalgamated Tran - sit Union (ATU). Heintzman, former president of Portland-based ATU Local 757, had served as international president since the July 1 resignation of former president Warren George, and was backed by George as a successor. Hanley, former president of Local 726 in the Staten Island borough of New York, was an international vice president. The vote was 372 to 272. Hanley pledged to focus ATU’s attention on organizing and political activism. Hanley ran on a slate with longtime Ohio unionist Robert Baker, who won election as international executive vice president, ATU’s number two position. Heintzman ran as part of a three-person slate that included Oscar Owens. Owens won re-elec - tion as international secretary-treasurer. ATU represents 192,000 active and retired bus drivers, mechanics and transit dis - trict employees in the United States and Canada. Heintzman was president of Local 757 from 1988 until 2002, when he was ap - pointed international vice president and relocated to Washington, D.C. He will now return to Oregon.

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EE BARGAIN COUNTER Who’s On Our Side? FR Free classified ads to subscribers By Tom Chamberlain DEADLINE: Friday prior to publication Published 1st and 3rd Fridays here is red-hot anger spreading national average by 2007 — have left Now accepting e-mails Tacross our nation and our state. them earning $9,400 a year less than Yes, there is the anger of the mid - their Washington counterparts. anger is pissed off that money doesn’t Send to: [email protected] dle class who are without jobs, and Our decline in wages tracks the de - always buy a win. But here is the bot - Mail to: NWLP, PO Box 13150, Portland OR 97213 those with jobs who are trying to get cline in the highly unionized timber tom line: Because of the Supreme by with less and less. But the red-hot industry. That is why large chunks of Court’s “Citizen United” decision, it (Please include union affiliation) anger is not from working Americans; Kitzhaber’s economic recovery plan got a whole lot easier for angry • 15-20 words • No commercial or business ads • 1 ad per issue it is the wild-eyed rage of those with focus on the revitalization of timber money to buy anything it wants, be - power and wealth. communities through bio-mass and cause not only can corporations pour • All lower case ( NO CAPITAL LETTERS, PLEASE ) • These are the Americans who increased production of finished lum - millions in this election, they can also fought, and failed, to stop financial ac - ber. Meanwhile, Dudley has torn a do so anonymously. These shadow Ads MUST include area code or they will not be published countability, health care reform, and page out of George W. Bush’s eco - campaigns do not want to address is - “Buy America” provisions in jobs leg - nomic recovery plan, giving tax sues. They do not want to debate. UTOMOTIVE islation. breaks to millionaires and billionaires. They know that negative campaigns A MISCELLANEOUS And in Oregon, these are the cor - Dudley’s planned $800 million in tax drive down middle-class voter partic - 1988-’92 hood for Ford F250 truck, $50; BEEF, naturally raised, quarters and sway bar for 1988 F250 truck, $35. 503- porations and wealthiest Oregonians cuts will exacerbate Oregon’s revenue ipation, and they know that keeping halves, $2.30/lb. hanging weight, includes 761-1190 cut and wrapped, late Oct. 503-656-3587 who didn’t like to be asked to pay crisis-level underfunding of schools us silent is the only way they can win. ’95 CHEVY TAHOE, 155k, white w/gray in - TABLE SAW, 10” Delta Rockwell Unisaw, their fair share when we passed Ballot and vital services. We cannot let them win. terior, leather, tow pkg, excellent in/out, very nice shape, older style, $1,400. 503 Measures 66 and 67. They lost, and it Kitzhaber sees the declining wages The only way we can stop the fur - $4,500. 503-653-1289 (Don) 643-6897 (Dale) was a win for Oregon’s middle class. of Oregon workers and supports the ther decline of middle-class wages, ’47 CHEV 4dr, $2,000; ’52 Ford 4dr, HARDWOOD DOOR 40x80, stained $4,000. 503-289-0066 (Ed, Sr.) brown, framing and door knob included, ex Well, now these same corporations Columbia River Crossing as a means good jobs, and sound economic poli - cond, $150. 541 344-0569 EXTENSION MIRRORS, pair for truck or and ultra-affluent are pouring money to create tens of thousands of middle- cies is to make sure they don’t win. NEW ELECTRIC panel, $10; new bath - trailer, $50. 503-253-3330 hand over fist into electing conserva - class construction jobs and unclog a That means we need to vote. Union room ceiling fan, $10; ceiling lights, $5 generational traffic jam. Dudley re - members can make the difference this ALUMINUM pickup canopies, good cond, each. 503-256-2656 tive Republicans nationwide — and 60”x90” for LB Ranger; 60”x75” for SB Nis - Chris Dudley here in Oregon. sponds by eroding the minimum election. Ballots were mailed Oct. 15 AIR COND, $100, walker, $110; HD lock, san, $90 each. 503-798-6517 (3-9 p.m.) $12; briefcase, $15; all new suitcase, $25, The divide between John Kitz- wage via a training wage and sub - and are due back Nov. 2. Please make grill, $10; rice cooker, $15. 503-285-9857 haber’s understanding of what is tracting tips from the minimum wages sure you vote for candidates who will WOOD SPLITTER, 22 ton, portable needed to jump-start Oregon’s stalled of service employees. stand up for middle-class Oregonians. HOUSING w/Honda 5.5hp, like new, $1,650; Stihl MS economy and Dudley’s is as wide a Kitzhaber speaks about home fore - If you need more information on LINCOLN CITY vacation rental, 3 bdrm, 2 390 38” chainsaw, $350. 503 871-6722 gulf as between Oregon’s richest 1 closure practices that drive hard work - those candidates, check out the union bath, $110/night, sleeps 8, 2 blocks to beach, 4 blocks to casino. 503-804-7976 percent and the rest of us. ing Oregonians from their homes, endorsements in this Labor Press or WANTED www.oraflcio.org ROCKAWAY BEACH vacation rental, 3 Kitzhaber understands that the while Dudley burns down a perfectly visit our website at . bed, 2 bath, sleeps 10, 4 blocks to JUNK CARS, removal of unwanted cars downward slide in Oregonians’ wages good 4,000 square foot Lake Oswego The red-hot anger of the powerful and beach/shops. 503-754-6101 or 236-7004 and pickups. 503-314-8600 — which were 5 percent above the “McMansion” to make way for his wealthy is not on our side. BANDON OR vacation rental, 3 bedroom COLLECTOR PAYS cash for older toys, oil national average two decades ago and newer lakeside mansion. Tom Chamberlain is president of 2 bath, 2 blocks to beach, $150/night. paintings, art pottery, taxco silver and has slipped to 10 percent below the No one likes to lose. 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Call For U.S. Senate For U.S. House Grady 503-495-4932 to see JOBS AND THE ECONOMY Broadway Floral Murray and Heck support job-creating investments in our infrastructure, including clean energy and for the BEST flowers call 503-288-5537 transportation, like the Columbia River Crossing. Murray and Heck will fight to protect prevailing wage 1638 NE Broadway, Portland standards on federally funded construction projects. VOTE NOV. 2 THE WASHINGTON BCTC ‘American Made’ ALSO RECOMMENDS in the Northwest UNION RIGHTS ‘YES’ vote on Heck supports and Murray is a Ballot Measure 52 co-sponsor of the Employee Free (Funding bonds for energy efficiency projects) and Choice Act to restore the freedom ‘NO’ vote on to join a union without employer Ballot Measure I-1082 interference. (Privatizing workers’ compensation system)

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32,000 Delta/Northwest airline workers vote on union By DON McINTOSH four separate bargaining units will de - is infuriating to pro-union workers like in an election still to be scheduled. union campaigns Delta managers Associate Editor cide whether or not to be union. Laird, and intimidating to those who are [Northwest’s aircraft maintenance worked to suppress voter turnout, and What happens when a union airline Delta, which was the world’s largest less sure about the union, he said. workers were represented by an inde - literally encouraged workers to tear up merges with a nonunion airline? Non- airline until last month’s merger of Flight attendants are the first group pendent union, which decided to fold their ballots with the slogan, “Give a union workers get a shot at union rep - United and Continental, is campaign - of Delta workers to vote on unionizing. rather than campaign to represent the rip. Don’t click. Don’t dial.” resentation, and union workers run the ing heavily to persuade them to vote Voting began Sept. 29, by mail and on - larger group.] But last year, President Barack risk of losing it. “no.” Asked how much the company line, and results will be announced Union victory at Delta could also be Obama added two pro-union ap - That’s happening now with flight at - will spend to fight unionization, CEO Nov. 3. About 7,500 Delta flight atten - important for the wider labor move - pointees to the three-member National tendants, ramp workers, ticket agents Richard Anderson reportedly replied, dants are working under AFA’s contract ment: Half of Delta’s cabin crews are Mediation Board, which governs labor- and others at Northwest and Delta air - “as much as it takes.” Delta is calling with Northwest, and this election de - based in , which is in the heart management relations in airlines and lines, which merged in late 2008. Pilots the campaign Decision 2010, and is termines whether they lose their union of the nonunion, “right-to-work” South. railroads: Linda Puchala, a former AFA at both companies were union, but bombarding workers with anti-union and contract, or gain 13,500 union sis - For Delta flight attendants, the president; and Harry Hoglander, a for - Delta was otherwise nonunion, messages. ters and brothers. struggle to unionize has lasted over a mer executive vice president of the Air whereas Northwest had been union for Portland resident Jim Laird, a Delta Then three groups of workers will decade. This will be their third union - Line Pilots Association. In May, the 65 years. Northwest’s ramp workers flight attendant, said he has received at vote on whether to be members of IAM. ization vote in eight years. But the rules National Mediation Board changed the and ticket agents belong to the Interna - least three glossy mailers, a voters About 14,000 Delta baggage handlers have changed. rule to be more in line with normal tional Association of Machinists pamphlet, and a DVD in the mail. At — including 4,700 former Northwest Airline workers unionize under the democratic procedures. Now every (IAM), and its flight attendants are work, break rooms are hung with large employees — started voting Oct. 14 and terms of the Railway Labor Act, not the vote will count, and un-cast ballots will members of Association of Flight At - anti-union banners. Management rep - continue through Nov. 18. About 700 National Labor Relations Act which not be counted as “no” votes. Airlines tendants (AFA). Union contracts re - resentatives campaign against the “stock and stores” workers — including covers most private-sector workers. In sued unsuccessfully to stop the change. main in effect — for the former North - union at display tables. Even the com - 240 from Northwest — vote Oct. 25 to the past, airline workers wouldn’t win For flight attendants, a union could west workers only — until the merged puters that workers clock in on are set Nov. 22. And a final group of about union recognition unless an absolute help them secure a decent living, a fam - groups vote over the next several up to display anti-union messages. 16,000 customer service and reserva - majority of workers voted “yes” — not ily-friendly schedule, and health insur - months whether to unionize. “It’s everywhere you look,” Laird tions workers — including 4,800 former just a majority of those who vote. ance benefits that cover dependents. All told, about 32,000 workers in said. The non-stop anti-union campaign Northwest union members — will vote Because of that rule, during past Bill McGlashen, executive assistant to the AFA international president, said workers want a chance to bargain back the pay and benefits they lost after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and during the Chapter 11 bankruptcies of Delta and Northwest. “They took significant pay and ben - efit cuts, and they need an avenue to re - store that. They can’t go on an unwrit - ten promise from management.” AFA is campaigning with the slogan of “opportunity, dignity, respect” and has its own DVD and an e-mail net - work. An “AFA at Delta” Facebook group had 1,900 members as of Oct. 11. On an AFA phone hotline, workers record statements as to why they voted yes, which are then played on the the campaign web site, deltaafa.org . Like AFA, IAM is waging a vigor - ous campaign, said IAM spokesperson Joe Tiberi — including television ads in Memphis and Atlanta, two major Delta hubs [You can see them at the campaign web site, jointheiam.org .] Tiberi said IAM is working to chal - lenge anti-union stereotypes among workers who haven’t been in a union, for example, the idea that unionization makes an airline uncompetitive. South - west Airlines is a good counter to that argument, Tiberi said: It’s almost en - tirely union, and is one of the highest paid, yet also is among the most prof - itable while still maintaining lower fares than most. For Delta workers seeking to join IAM, retirement security is an issue, Tiberi said. Both Northwest and Delta froze their pension plans, meaning no new benefits are being accrued. But Northwest joined IAM’s multi-em - ployer pension plan, so those workers have a growing “defined benefit” pen - sion, as long as they remain union. Tiberi is asking union members who fly Delta in the next month to talk with ticket agents and show support for their campaign to join IAM. Likewise, AFA spokesperson Corey Caldwell encour - ages union members to talk to Delta flight attendants and let them know that there’s public support for their cam - paign. Paid for by Clark County Democrats, Treasurer Marsha Manning, PO Box 179, Vancouver 98666 OCTOBER 15, 2010 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 11 OCT. 15, 2010 :NWLP 10/12/10 10:03 AM Page 12

DCTU reaches tentative contract with City of Portland Following months of often con - teria considered will include efficien - tentious bargaining, the District Coun - cies, liability and risk. cil of Trade Unions (DCTU) reached a • The day after Thanksgiving was tentative agreement with the City of added as a holiday. Portland on a new three-year contract. • Hour-for-hour compensation for The deal came in the early morning holiday pay. This issue will have a sig - hours of Oct. 5, ending a marathon 22- nificant impact on members. Prior to hour mediation session. this agreement, members (especially if DCTU is a coalition of seven unions they worked 4/10 or 3/12 schedules) representing 1,800 city employees that had to use two to four hours of vaca - bargain together with the City. AF - tion or comp time to make them whole SCME Local 189 is the largest local in for their holiday pay. The annual value the group, with about 1,100 members. to members should range from $500 to Others are Laborers Local 483; the In - ternational Brotherhood of Electrical $1,200 or more a year, depending on Workers Local 48; Machinists Lodge their hourly rate of pay. 1005; Plumbers and Fitters Local 290; • A full DCTU wage survey will be Operating Engineers Local 701; and completed in April 2013 for use in the Painters and Allied Trades District next negotiation session. Council 5. • Voluntary overtime will not be al - “This was a long, hard-fought bat - lowed if an employee takes a full day of tle,” said Oregon AFSCME Executive non-protected sick leave or leave used Director Ken Allen. “In the end, we ac - in lieu of sick leave, until after time complished a reasonable settlement. taken is made up during the same We have a lot of language and eco - week. It does not apply to dependent nomic gains for our members, and the care, Family and Medical Leave or sick entire DCTU feels good about the set - leave used for doctor appointments. tlement. We should feel very good “I think it is important to emphasize about what we accomplished in these that the bargaining team worked very difficult economic times.” Portland Maintenance Bureau employee Jerry (JJ) Johnson, a shop steward and 20-year member of Laborers hard to get the best contract for our City workers will see no cost-of-liv - Municipal Employees Local 483, fires up Portland city employees during a Sept. 29 contract rally across the street from members as possible, given the eco - ing adjustment (COLA) in the first City Hall. Several hundred people attended the rally. A week later, on Oct. 5, a new three-year contract was tentatively nomic climate of the country and Ore - year, but will receive a COLA of be - agreed to. A coalition of unions has been bargaining with the City since January and talks had recently entered into gon,” said DCTU’s lead negotiator tween 1 and 5 percent in the agree - mediation. James Hester, who serves as the staff ment’s second and third years, based on rep for AFSCME Local 189. “All of the Portland Consumer Price Index. step increase for a number of classifi - niversary date, and will impact over union when it’s going to contract out them put in extremely long hours.” The employees’ benefit package was A ratification vote date had not been fully retained. cations in the third year of the contract 700 workers. work and it cannot contract out unless that were determined to be underpaid Other contract highlights: it saves money by doing so, and the set before this issue of the Labor Press There will be no step freezes. Addi - went to press. The Portland City Coun - tionally, there is a 3 percent additional in the market. The additional step will • Contracting out language was savings can’t come from workers get - be implemented on the employee’s an - strengthened. The City must notify a ting lower pay and benefits. Other cri - cil also must ratify the agreement.

Union-made halloween candy Want to buy union-made Halloween candy this year? Stick to products made by Ghirardelli, Tootsie Roll In - dustries, Jelly Belly, and NECCO. Those are the only reliably union- made national brand Halloween candies, made by members of the Bak - ery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) union. Ghirardelli is known for its namesake chocolates. Tootsie makes the iconic Tootsie Roll chewy candy and Tootsie Roll Pops, as well as Junior Mints, Andes mints, and Dubble Bubble bubble gum. Jelly Belly makes jelly beans and Halloween candy corn. And NECCO is a family of brands, the best known of which are Clark bars and Mary Jane chews. The Bakers Union also represents workers at plants making Her - shey and Nestlé brand candies, but those companies make the same candies at non-union locations, so it can be hard to know where a pur - chase originated — except when candy is imported. Bakers Union spokesperson Corrina Christensen said big brands like Hershey are also making candy in low-wage foreign countries for sale in the U.S. market, including candy made in Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, and Jamaica. Imported candy, like other food, is required to have a country-of-origin label. If it is labeled as such, Christensen sug - gests, don’t buy it. Finally, to make buy-union dollars go even further, purchase Hal - loween candy at QFC, Safeway, Albertsons or Fred Meyer, where workers are represented by United Food and Commercial Workers.

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