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Fire Fighters launch Union Sportsmen’s Alliance
SEATTLE (PAI) — Carrying out
a plan that International Association
of Fire Fighters President Harold
Schaitberger first floated three years
ago, the union has joined other labor
and conservation groups to create the
new Union Sportsmen’s Alliance.
Unveiled in Seattle last month,
the Alliance is an outgrowth of the
existing Theodore Roosevelt Conser-
vation Partnership between 20 unions
an conservation groups. But unlike
the partnership, the new alliance will
offer goods and services and its own
clubs to unionists who like to hunt
and fish.
Besides the Fire Fighters, key
unions behind the new alliance in-
clude the Machinists, whose presi-
dent, Thomas Buffenbarger, will be
on the group’s board of directors.
“For many of our members, hunt-
ing and fishing isn’t just what they do
in their free time, they’re part of who
they are,” said Schaitberger. “We’re
proud to offer a program to help our
hard working men and women enjoy
the activities they’re passionate
about.”
The alliance’s working papers say
it will “create an outdoor hunting and
fishing club exclusively for union
members and their families with the
purpose of actively engaging union
sportsmen in the ongoing fight to
create a better future for hunting and
fishing while helping to create their
own outdoor community that will ex-
tend union member benefits beyond
the workplace, into the woods and
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onto the water.”
It will have its own dues structure,
multimedia information program —
including a publication — and pro-
gram where unionists who hunt and
fish can buy goods and gear at a dis-
count through the alliance.
When Schaitberger first floated
the idea before the 2004 presidential
election, he noted “politics” as an-
other reason for creating the Union
Sportsmen’s Alliance. That led him
to try to get the AFL-CIO Executive
Council to formally back creation of
the club, but he did not succeed.
Schaitberger explained then that
because many unionists hunt and
fish, they got goods and gear — and a
heavy dose of political propaganda
— from the National Rifle Associa-
tion and its American Rifleman mag-
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powerful in the U.S. and it transmits
a strong and bitter anti-union line.
The political angle is important,
however, because the Fire Fighters
Union is plurality Republican, and its
hunter/fisher members — along with
other union hunters and fishermen —
can be swayed by the NRA.
Schaitberger did not mention poli-
tics in last month’s announcement.
Carpenters’ Cobian
gets more time in
U.S.; fundraiser set
At a Feb. 13 immigration hearing,
José Cobián, known to local carpenters
as José Luis Mendoza, was given an ex-
tra month to remain in the United
States. His next hearing is scheduled for
March 15.
As reported in previous issues of the
Northwest Labor Press, Cobián, 36,
was a well-regarded union organizer
with the Pacific Northwest Regional
Council of Carpenters until his Septem-
ber 2006 arrest on immigration-related
charges. He pled guilty to passport
fraud and was sentenced to probation,
with the expectation that he will be de-
ported to Mexico by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Thus far, Cobián has been unable to
afford a lawyer. A public defender rep-
resented him in the passport fraud case,
but immigration is considered an ad-
ministrative, not criminal, proceeding,
without the right to a court-appointed
attorney.
To raise money for an attorney, Co-
bián’s supporters will hold a fundraising
dinner and silent auction March 10 at 7
p.m. at Peace House, 2116 NE 18th Ave.
Contributions can also be made at
any U.S. Bank branch or mailed to U.S.
Bank, 636 SE Grand Ave., Portland OR
97214. Checks should be made out to
the Luis Mendoza Solidarity Fund.
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