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Letter Carriers union opposes ‘Do Not Mail’ bill proposed in Washington State OLYMPIA — The National Asso- ciation of Letter Carriers told key Washington state legislators Feb. 8 that passage of proposed bills to create a “Do Not Mail” registry would be detrimental to the U.S. Postal Service, its workforce, and the general public. NALC President William H. Young, whose union represents 221,000 letter carriers in the nation, expressed his “fierce opposition” to the legislation in letters to Washington House Commerce and Labor Chair- man Steve Conway and Senate Con- sumer Protection and Housing Chair- man Brian Weinstein as Conway’s committee held a hearing Feb. 8 on the legislative proposal. About 5,500 letter carriers reside in Kaiser gets okay to build new hospital facility Kaiser Permanente has received ap- proval from Oregon state regulators to build a $285 million hospital on a 15- acre site in the Tanasbourne area of Washington County. Kaiser has historically used union contractors and workers on its con- struction projects. The 138-bed, 380,000-square-foot facility will house surgical suites, an intensive care unit, an emergency de- partment, a labor and delivery unit and a pharmacy. The campus will also in- clude a specialty care medical office and outpatient surgery center. State law charges the Oregon De- partment of Human Services with re- viewing proposals for new hospitals and nursing facilities to ensure health- care consumers don’t pay for the cost of unnecessary facilities. The hospital is projected to be com- plete in 2011. Q Washington state. Young said the proposal “could jeopardize the very future of Amer- ica’s postal system,” adding that while it may be well-intentioned, it is being erroneously promoted as similar to “Do Not Call” limits on telemarketers. “Unlike the annoying phone calls that were routinely timed to coincide with the dinner hour, postal patrons are free to choose when and how to deal with the mail they receive,” Young said. Young said the third class mail ear- marked in the bill constitutes more than 50 percent of all mail. “Elimina- tion of a significant portion of adver- tising mail could be devastating,” he said. Young said letter carriers, as other citizens, have environmental concerns about the waste of natural resources, but added that most advertising mail- ing is printed on recycled paper and postal patrons can recycle that mail. 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Pledge packets are available at the Northwest Oregon Labor Council or by calling Tor at MDA at 503-223- 3177. • Serving Multi-Employer Multi-Employer Serving Trusts Twenty Years Trusts for for Over Twenty Years } Cam Johnson Greg Sherwood Cam Johnson Greg Sherwood Adrian Hamilton Monte Johnson Adrian Hamilton Monte Johnson Doug Goebel Goebel Bill Zenk Zenk Doug Bill Garth Nisbet One SW SW Columbia St., Suite 1100, Portland, OR 97258 One 1100 Portland, 503-221-0158 503-221-0158 www.QuestInvestment.com www.QuestInvestment.com Portland 3580 SE 82nd Ave. Portland, OR 97266 503-777-0761 Northwest Dental Associates, P.C. Northwest Dental Associates, P.C. Quest Investment Management, Inc. FEBRUARY 16, 2007 PROTECTING UNION MEMBERS’ SMILES AND WALLETS. Northwest Dental Associates, P.C. Chau Ngo, D.D.S., M.S. Phong Bui, D.M.D. Charles Stirewalt, D.D.S. Stirewalt, P.C. Fisher’s Landing 3250 SE 164th Ave. Vancouver, WA 98683 360-891-1999 Peter Vu, D.M.D. Chau Ngo, D.D.S. 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