NOLC endorses candidates for Port, Fire District boards
The Northwest Oregon Labor
Council has endorsed Earl Fisher for
re-election to the Port of St. Helens
board of directors, Position 4, in the
May 15 special election.
Fisher is a retired superintendent of
the Clatskanie School District.
At a meeting with the labor coun-
cil’s Executive Board on April 9,
Fisher said he understands labor’s is-
sues — such as project labor agree-
ments and prevailing wages laws on
construction projects, and a worker’s
right to join a union.
“We have a good working relation-
ship with the Longshoremen at the
Port,” Fisher said. “We try to insist
that projects be done with union labor,
or at least that they pay prevailing
wages for the work done.”
Fisher said as a board member his
goal is to use the port to attract indus-
tries that will provide family-wage
jobs.
At the recommendation of Clacka-
mas Fire Fighters Local 1159, the la-
bor council has endorsed Dave
McTeague, Marilyn Wall and James
Doane for re-election to the Fire Dis-
trict No. 1. board of directors.
Wall and Doane are running unop-
posed. McTeague, a former state legis-
lator and chair of the board, is being
challenged by Brian Cox.
“Mr. Cox is a former Fire District
board member who is anti-union,”
said Burke Slater, vice president of
Local 1159. “We are actively oppos-
ing him.”
Clackamas Fire District No. 1 pro-
vides fire, rescue and emergency med-
ical services to Milwaukie, Oregon
City, Happy Valley, Johnson City and
a portion of Damascus, in addition to
several unincorporated areas in the
vicinity. Clackamas Fire has 15 fire
stations and a workforce of more than
200 employees and volunteers.
In the Molalla Rural Fire District,
NOLC endorsed Mike Towner and
Brian Wolfe for board seats.
Towner, a member of Fire Fighters
Local 1660, is in a contested race for
the open Position 1 board sear.
Wolfe, a member of Local 1159, is
running unopposed for Position 2. No
candidates have filed for another open
seat in Position 3.
The Estacada Rural Fire District
also has had no candidates file for an
open seat.
Burke said that if anyone is inter-
ested in running as a write-in candi-
date to contact him at 503-351-9904.
The Board of Directors establishes
Fire District policy through the pas-
sage of resolutions and ordinances.
Candidates for the boards must be
residents or own property in the re-
spective districts.
The Board also adopts the District
budget, approves appropriations and
levies taxes.
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