AFSCME Local 88 Calendar Executive Board meets 6:15 p.m. Oregon AFSCME Retirees meet Wednesday, Dec. 7. 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20. Call AFSCME Michael Arken for info: 1-800-521- General Membership meets 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18. Note: 5954, x226. LOCAL 88 There is no December meeting. www.afscmelocal88.org 503-239-9858 • 1-800-792-0045 But see below for details of the Meetings take place at the AFSCME 6025 E Burnside, Portland, OR 97215 Dec. 8 holiday open-house. office, 6025 E. Burnside, Portland. Officer election results ocal 88 ’s election for the 2011-2013 term has completed. To all of the Lmembers who participated, thank you! We will do our absolute best to serve our members over the coming two-year term. Here are the results and your new leadership: In the election for Vice President, the vote breakdown was: • Deirdre Mahoney-Clark – 56% • Grant Swanson – 44% New officers President: Michael Hanna Vice President: Deirdre Mahoney-Clark Secretary: Susan Palmer Treasurer: Jeanne Ramsten New Executive Board members General Government & Library 1: Kristin Wray(Library) General Government & Library 2: Tom Newsom(Library) General Government & Library 3: James Still(DCA) General Government & Library 4: Don Keinholz(DCS) General Government & Library 5: [VACANT] Health & Human Services 1: Candace Hjort (Health) Health & Human Services 2: Brenulla White (Health) Health & Human Services 3: Korie Erickson (DCHS) Health & Human Services 4: Beth McHugh (DCHS) Health & Human Services 5: Jackie Tate (DCHS) Public Safety 1: Madolyn Frazier(DA) Public Safety 2: Matt Davis(MCSO) Nominations for vacant Executive Board positions Public Safety 3: Dave Riley(DCJ) Local 88 currently has two vacant Executive Board General government and library sector (1 vacancy) Public Safety 4: Diana Grob(MCSO) positions. We will take nominations at the Jan. 18, Member must work in the Department of County Public Safety 5: [VACANT] 2012, general membership meeting. The positions Management, Department of County Assets, De - Central City Concern: John Talbott are the following: partment of Community Services, or Non-Depart - Transition Projects Inc: Gregory Franklin Public safety sector (1 vacancy) mental (not Library, since those positions are already Member must work in the Sheriff's Office, Depart - filled). Trustee (three-year term) ment of Community Justice or District Attorney's Gary Sinnen (DCHS) Office. At the Jan. 18, 2012 general membership meeting … Holiday Open House and Celebration on December 8 Candidate forum, and proposed All workers (members and non-members) who are repre - sented by Local 88 are invited to our year-end get-together, change to the union constitution as well as celebration for our new contract. If you haven’t 1. A member has given notice that at the January 18, 2012 been to our office, stop by and see where we hold our monthly meetings. Elected officials from Multnomah meeting they will read a proposed change to the AFSCME County have been invited. Local 88 Constitution, Article IV - Membership and This is a fun, family-friendly event. Stop by on your way Dues. Any proposed changes will be debated and amended home. We look forward to seeing you! and would need to be voted on the following month, Febru - What: Holiday Open House and Celebration ary 2012. The full Constitution can be located on the Local When: Thursday, December 8, 2011 88 website here: afscmelocal88.org/local-88-2/constitution- Where: 6025 E Burnside, Portland bylaws. Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Food: Appetizers and beverages will be available 2. Local 88 will hold a Candidate Forum for the candidates Other: Gift cards and prizes will be awarded for County Commissioner District 1 (currently held by throughout the evening. Deborah Kafoury) and District Attorney (currently held by Questions? If you have questions or would like to volunteer to help with this event, contact Susan Palmer at Mike Schrunk) [email protected] PAGE 4 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS DECEMBER 2, 2011 Inside Official See Meeting Notices Page 4 T S AFSCME 88 E W page Volume 112 H LABOR & T Number 23 R Official Publication of O AFSCME Local 88 Dec. 2, 2011 N PRESS Page 4 Portland, Oregon Vol. 112, No. 23 Portland, Oregon December 2, 2011 Occupiers focus on financial fraud, infrastructure repair By DON McINTOSH ter Carriers Branch 82); Peter Parks (In- marched to several downtown banks, Associate Editor ternational Longshore and Warehouse where smaller groups of protesters November 17, dubbed N17 by ac- Union); Tim Flanagan (retired Ameri- planned to commit civil disobedience. tivist organizers, was a nationwide day can Federation of Teachers-Oregon); Security guards prevented protesters of action for Occupy Wall Street, mark- Kent Sprang (retired Portland Associa- from entering a Bank of America branch ing two months since the original Oc- tion of Teachers); Bill Magorian at Southwest Second and Morrison. cupy Wall Street protest began in New (United Food and Commercial Workers At a Wells Fargo branch across from York City’s financial district. Local 555); Steven Gilliam (Oregon Pioneer Square, members of the Port- In Portland, the turn was toward Action staff organizer); and 11 others. land Central America Solidarity Com- civil disobedience, blocking downtown The Steel Bridge was chosen be- mittee protested, and nine were ar- banks and a Willamette River bridge to cause it’s an example of a bridge that has rested. Kari Koch, a former union protest financial fraud and call for in- structural deficiencies and a need for re- organizer who was one of those ar- frastructure investment. The day’s first pair: 25 million Americans are looking rested, says Wells Fargo was targeted protest began at 8 a.m. on the east end for work, protest organizers said, but because it is a primary investor in GEO of the Steel Bridge, where a crowd of Congress won’t pass a jobs bill. Group, the world’s second largest pri- 200 to 300 union members and sup- About a dozen members of Labor- vate prison company. porters gathered. The action — “Get ers Local 483 attended the bridge event Meanwhile, at a Chase bank branch, On The Bridge: We Declare a State of bearing orange picket signs to make a also across from Pioneer Courthouse Economic Emergency for the 99%”— parallel point: Portland, with a massive Square, another group of activists with was called by the labor-backed com- backlog in road repair, is planning to We Are Oregon entered to serve an munity outreach group We Are Oregon cut its budget for street maintenance “eviction” notice, then marched on the and publicized by the national AFL- next year, and lay off as many as 100 sidewalk. Mounted police and police in CIO and local groups, including Port- Wall Street’s bull has made quite a mess in Main Street’s china shop. workers. (See article below.) riot gear arrived, and shoved protesters land Jobs with Justice. After the arrests, the crowd crossed and used pepper spray. The plan was for a subgroup to crowd, sat down in the road, and were 503 Executive Director Heather Con- the river on the below-deck pedestrian The bridge arrestees were charged block the car lanes on the bridge and be arrested one by one. roy, along with six SEIU staff: Joye Ca- part of the Steel Bridge, and gathered in with disorderly conduct, given differ- arrested. But at the event, it was Port- Police reported 25 arrests on the macho, Samuel Davila, Aaron Giesa, Tom McCall Waterfront Park for a rally ent court dates, and are being defended land police who blocked traffic, shut- bridge. Communications Workers of Bob Rossi, Lorene Scheer, and Maro where Occupy Portland first assembled by SEIU Local 503’s in-house legal ting down the street before protesters America Local 7901 President Made- Sevastopoulos. Also arrested: Jamie Oct. 6. From there, the crowd — joined counsel. The Wells Fargo arrestees moved on the bridge. So the civil dis- lyn Elder was arrested. So was Service Partridge (National Association of Let- by participants in Occupy Portland — were charged with criminal trespass obedients moved to the front of the Employees International Union Local and are being defended pro bono by members of the National Lawyers Guild. Both groups were released al- Laborers Local 483 warns most immediately. City of fiscal emergency Oregon home care Union members went ees in several bureaus, and read a state- ment that was approved the previous workers protest before Portland City evening by the union’s general mem- Council Nov. 16 … and bership: “We are the 900-member pub- wage, benefit cuts lic employee union who maintain your Service Employees International got the usual response infrastructure, including your gold- Union (SEIU) Local 503 organized ral- Members of Laborers Local 483 medal parks … your clean roads and lies in seven Oregon cities Nov. 21 to showed up en masse at City Hall Nov. bridges, your safe water, and the vi- protest service, wage, and benefit cuts 16, filling Portland City Council’s brant community centers where your in Oregon’s in-home care program for ground-floor chamber for the public children learn and play. We support the the elderly and disabled. The union re- comment period before the Council’s public through our daily labor.” ports that over 400 home care workers, regular business. Most wore union T- Askin said Adams is proposing a clients and supporters turned out. shirts and hats, and carried signs that $16.2 million cut in infrastructure spend- Local 503 represents about 12,000 said, “Mr. Mayor, this is an emer- ing in the Bureau of Transportation, Early start to 2012 political season workers who are paid by the state to which could lead to 100 layoffs.