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Free medical screenings for workers at nuclear sites 0-49 years (6 states) 50-99 years (18 states) 100-149 years (19 states) 150 years or more (7 states) Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment and Wages Annual Averages, 2005” and Occupa- tional Safety and Health Administration IMIS data on worksite in- spections FY 2006. Prepared by the AFL-CIO Women in Trades Career Fair set for Saturday, May 1-3 Nearly 2,000 girls and female job- seekers are expected to participate in Q hands-on activities such as operating a crane, climbing a pole and soldering a Quest Investment Management, Inc. • Serving Multi-Employer Multi-Employer Serving Trusts Twenty Years Trusts for for Over Twenty Years } Cam Johnson Cam Johnson Adrian Adrian Hamilton Hamilton Doug Goebel Doug Goebel Garth Nisbet Greg Sherwood Greg Sherwood Monte Monte Johnson Johnson Bill Zenk Bill Zenk Pat Worley 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 APRIL 18, 2008 copper pipe at the 16th Annual Women in Trades Career Fair, sponsored by Oregon Tradeswomen Inc. This year’s fair will be held May 1- 3 at the NECA-IBEW Local 48 Elec- trical Training Center, 16021 NE Air- port Way, Portland. Saturday, May 3 is “Career Day,” and the fair is open to the general pub- lic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is free of charge. On May 1, middle-school students will tour the fair, and May 2 is reserved for high school students. An estimated 1,400 students from more than 50 mid- dle and high schools across Oregon and Southwest Washington will participate. Connie Ashbrook, executive direc- tor of Oregon Tradeswomen Inc., said the fair provides an atmosphere where girls are encouraged and supported by adult female role models to explore skilled living-wage careers in construc- tion-related trades.The event allows students and women to meet more than 70 employers, learn about apprentice- ship programs, and community college trades training, and participate in nu- merous hands-on workshops and demonstrations. Free parking and child care are available. For more information, call 503-335-8200, or go to their Web site at www.tradeswomen.net. Education conference will focus on Oregon workers’ comp system SALEM — An educational conference on Oregon’s workers’ compensation system will be held May 14-15 at the Salem Conference Center. The conference, sponsored by the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division and the International Workers’Compensation Foundation, is geared for union rep- resentatives, safety managers, employers, attorneys, injured workers and others. Registration is $325 if postmarked by April 21. For more information, contact Kara Olsen at 503-947-7515 or e-mail her at kara.r.olsen@state.or.us. NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS TRI-CITIES, Wash. — Union con- struction workers who spent any time at all working at Hanford Reservation, or at any of the hundreds of nuclear weapons program sites in the U.S., are eligible to receive a free medical screening to see if they have been ex- posed to life-threatening ailments. The free service is provided through the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed), which started in 1996 in cooperation with the Department of Energy. BTMed serves union construction workers from 23 DOE sites, including Hanford, Idaho National Engineering and Environ- mental Laboratory in Scoville, and Amchitka Test Site in Amchitka Island, Alaska. To date, 16,000 workers (out of some 700,000) have been screened — with more than 3,000 of those having worked at Hanford. Of the three key indicators of occu- pational disease associated with work at Hanford, BTMed has have found that nearly 38 percent of participants with X-rays have lung abnormalities; more than 38 percent of those with breathing tests have decreased lung ca- pacity; 66 percent of those with a hear- ing test have evidence of work-related noise-induced hearing loss, and 2.7 per- cent of those with a beryllium test have evidence of sensitization. If you worked at Hanford, call Sherry Gosseen at the Hanford Out- reach Office at 1-509-542-9347. If you worked elsewhere, call BTMed at 1- 800-866-9663 or go online for more in- formation at www.btmed.org. Turner Construction will stop work April 28 to honor dead Turner Construction of Portland will hold a moment of silence at all of its jobsites first thing Monday morning, April 28, to remember workers who have been killed on the job. April 28 is Workers Memorial Day. It was established in 1989 by the AFL- CIO to honor workers who have been killed and/or injured on the job. Turner has several large projects go- ing in Oregon, including the Provi- dence Cancer Center in Portland, Sa- cred Heart Hospital in Eugene, and Salem Hospital. “We probably have a thousand workers on our jobsites,” said Safety Manager Alan Blood. “It’s a good time to remember those who have been killed on the job and to heighten aware- ness of safety.” At each jobsite the names of work- ers killed job the job in Oregon in 2007 will be read. PAGE 7
