Labor law confab
slated Jan. 19 at
IBEW in Portland
More than 200 people are regis-
tered to attend the 11th annual Oregon
Labor Law Conference Friday, Jan.
19, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the
NECA-IBEW Local 48 Electrical
Training Center, 15937 NE Airport
Way, Portland.
The conference is sponsored by the
Oregon AFL-CIO, Electrical Workers
Local 48 and the Columbia-Pacific
Building Trades Council and is de-
signed for business managers, busi-
ness agents, organizers and union offi-
cers to get the latest information to
avoid legal liability and to better serve
members, said conference coordinator
Norman Malbin, general counsel for
Local 48.
This year’s conference will feature
a panel on the Kentucky River deci-
sion by the National Labor Relations
Board. On that panel will be Richard
Ahearn, regional director of the
NLRB in Seattle. Ahearn was the re-
gional director in Ohio who ruled ini-
tially that nurses are employees and
not supervisors. That ruling was ap-
pealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and
remanded back to the NLRB, which
earlier this year ruled that nurses can
be supervisors.
Other courses offered will include
corporate campaigns, union record-
keeping, the Employment Relations
Board, Fair Labor Standards Act class
actions and the Family and Medical
Leave Act.
Oregon Labor Commissioner Dan
Gardner will speak at lunch.
For more information about the
conference or to register, call Donna
Marshall at 503-889-3660 or e-mail
her at Donna@IBEW48.com.
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Steelworkers strike Goodyear
Local members of the United Steelworkers (USW) rallied with supporters
outside of tire dealerships in at least 15 cities Dec. 2, including Portland.
About 15,000 USW members have been on strike since Oct. 5 at 15 North
American Goodyear factories. USW said members were essentially forced
out on strike because of company demands to cut health care, close factories
and import tires from China and other low-wage countries. With the
company using replacement workers to make tires, USW is trying to raise
public concern about the safety of the tires. The union is pointing to the 2000
recall of 14.4 million Firestone tires in the Ford Explorer. Those tires,
manufactured by striker replacements, were linked to 271 fatalities and over
800 injuries, the union said.
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