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First U.S.-made streetcars will carry union label School District hires former union official for labor relations job Southgate Mobile & RV Park 7911 SE 82nd Ave. Portland, Oregon Spaces Available up to 35’ 503-771-5262 Quarry 8” Safety toe or reg. Gortex/Vibram. Black Try a pair on, you’ll like them. Tough boots for the Northwest. AL’S SHOES 5811 SE 82nd, Portland 503-771-2130 Mon-Fri 10-7:30 Sat 10-5:30 Sun 12-6 FEBRUARY 2, 2007 lene Hooley and Earl Blumenauer, Portland Mayor Tom Potter, Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams, Clackamas County commissioners, and TriMet General Manager Fred Hansen for the announcement. Funding for the project was secured as a $4 million line-item in the 2005 Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) bill, which authorizes the federal surface trans- portation programs for highways, highway safety, and transit for the five- year period 2005-2009. United Streetcar LLC will build a prototype streetcar based on the model currently manufactured in the Czech Republic by Skoda, which makes cars Kaiser gets okay to build new hospital Kaiser Permanente has received approval from Oregon state regulators to build a $285 million hospital on a 15-acre site in the Tanasbourne area of Wash- ington County. Kaiser has historically used union contractors and workers on its construction projects. The 138-bed, 380,000-square-foot facility will house surgical suites, an inten- sive care unit, an emergency department, a labor and delivery unit and a phar- macy. The campus will also include a specialty care medical office and outpatient surgery center. State law charges the Oregon Department of Human Services with reviewing proposals for new hospitals and nursing facilities to ensure health-care con- sumers don’t pay for the cost of unnecessary facilities. The hospital is projected to be complete in 2011. for Portland’s streetcar system. If interest in streetcars develops, United Streetcar could be supplying them to cities across North America. “We believe there are 80 cities in- terested in streetcar systems,” said De- Fazio, chairman of the House Sub- committee on Transportation. “The resurgence of streetcars throughout the United States will play an increasing role in urban transit.” According to Chandra Brown, vice president of Oregon Iron Works, the project will create 20 new jobs, with the potential for hundreds more as na- tional demand increases. “We intend to provide modern, effi- cient American-produced streetcars, and to be a pioneering force in increas- ing urban transit options throughout the United States,” Brown said. Using United Streetcar, a domestic company, means the streetcar would comply with all federal Buy American rules. “This project is a shining example of how when we come together across public and private sector lines, that we can deliver economic benefits for busi- nesses, individual Oregonians and our communities,” Kulongoski said. When the prototype streetcar is com- pleted it will be added to the Portland Streetcar fleet, increasing capacity and working towards the expansion of streetcar service to the Eastside, Lake Oswego, and city-wide. Oregon Iron Works is a specialized fabrication and manufacturing company that produces components for the U.S. and foreign governments, as well as dams, bridges and other civil engineer- ing and commercial projects. The com- pany employs over 400. Tel: 503-643-6635 www.wademccarthy.com Carpenters, Electricians, Laborers, Glaziers, Sheetmetal Workers, Floorcoverers, Bricklayers, Cement Masons, Roofers, Asbestos Workers, Family, Mill Wrights, Painters, Elevators, Plasterers Our new enhanced online banking has arrived! We have increased security and added individual preferences to our internet banking website to give you more peace of mind. With multiple sign-on verification and the selection of your own personal settings you can be assured that all online transactions are safe and secure. To register your account and take advantage of all of the increased options please visit us at ibewuwfcu.com and click on the New Security Internet Banking link. PO Box 16877 9955 SE Washington St Portland, Oregon 97292 www.ibewuwfcu.com Electricians, Carpenters, Laborers, Glaziers, Sheetmetal Workers, Floorcoverers, Bricklayers, Cement Masons, Roofer, Asbestos Workers, Family, Mill Wrights, Painters, Elevators, Plasterers Tom Gunn, a former grievance di- rector for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 and a business agent for Oregon Council 75 of the American Federation of State, County and Mu- nicipal Employees, has been hired as director of labor relations for Portland Public Schools. Gunn worked for AFSCME during the 1980s, leaving in 1991 to accept a governor’s appointment to the Oregon Workers Compensation Board. He served there until 1996. He then joined the Local 555 staff before leaving to take a job as employment relations manager for Marion County in Salem. Gunn has a full agenda at the school district, where the 15-union District Council of Unions has been working under the terms of a contract that ex- pired in 2006. Negotiations also are on- going with classified employees and cafeteria workers. The Oregon Educa- tion Association contract doesn’t open until 2008, and bargaining has yet to be- gin for school custodians, who were re- instated last year by order of the Ore- gon Supreme Court. “People at the School District are in- terested in solving problems, not creat- ing them,” Gunn said. “The direction for me is to build a collaborative rela- tionship with the unions.” Gunn, 58, lives in Hillsboro with his wife, Pearl, a retired school teacher. Electricians, Carpenters, Laborers, Glaziers, Sheetmetal Workers, Floorcoverers, Bricklayers, Cement Masons, Roofer, Asbestos Workers, Family, Mill Wrights, Painters, Elevators, Plasterers TOM GUNN The nation’s first U.S.-manufac- tured modern streetcars will be union- built at Oregon Iron Works. At a press conference Jan. 26 at the company’s headquarters in Clacka- mas, company officials, politicians and union leaders announced that Oregon Iron Works, through its subsidiary United Streetcar, LLC, had secured a $4 million contract to manufacture a prototype streetcar for the City of Port- land. “It will create dozens of good union jobs,” said Mike Lappier, business manager of Iron Workers Shopmen’s Local 516, which represents workers at Oregon Iron Works. Lappier joined Gov. Ted Kulon- goski, U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio, Dar- Glaziers, Carpenters, Laborers, Electricians, Sheetmetal Workers, Floorcoverers, Bricklayers, Cement Masons, Roofers, Asbestos Workers, Family, Mill Wrights, Painters, Elevators, Plasterers NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 3
